Favorite Literary Quotes (short ones!)

GettingTooOld · Post by **GettingTooOld** » November 1st, 2021, 1:46 pm

“A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.” -Robert Benchley

rredmond · Post by **rredmond** » November 2nd, 2021, 6:28 am

Sorry to break the dog quotes, and someone already beat me to a Tolkien quote, but this is sorta along the same vein of dogs' loyalty...

“Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.” - J.R.R. Tolkien

maxgal · Post by **maxgal** » November 2nd, 2021, 9:57 am

OK... I CANNOT resist this one:

"While fate's clouds gathered ominously on my horizon, all my metallic-blue eyes perceived were fair skies."

No, I did not make this up.
It might seem to be from something by Stephen Leacock, or maybe P.G. Wodehouse.
But it's from a modern author, and a hugely commercially successful one at that:
It's from The Loch by Steve Alten.
Don't ask how I know this, or why.

realisticspeakers · November 2nd, 2021, 4:17 pm

There I was, facing an entire cast of characters, and it was just me in the studio.
It was exhausting. It was always exhausting.
- Barbara Rosenblat - "The Art of Recording Audio Books"

rredmond · Post by **rredmond** » November 2nd, 2021, 5:11 pm

GettingTooOld · Post by **GettingTooOld** » November 2nd, 2021, 6:19 pm

"One day I will rule the world with a goat by my side!"

Jhonen Vasquez

maxgal · Post by **maxgal** » November 4th, 2021, 7:31 pm

Outside of a dog, a book is [hu]man's best friend.
Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx

maxgal · Post by **maxgal** » November 6th, 2021, 5:10 pm

"It's Alice the Awful, come to spread cheer and cholera." -- A character named "Oscar" in A Bucket of Blood, Roger Corman's masterpiece.

Post by **mightyfelix** » November 6th, 2021, 6:04 pm

maxgal wrote: ↑November 6th, 2021, 5:10 pm "It's Alice the Awful, come to spread cheer and cholera." -- A character named "Oscar" in A Bucket of Blood, Roger Corman's masterpiece.

Oh goodness, I hated that movie!

maxgal · Post by **maxgal** » November 6th, 2021, 6:16 pm

mightyfelix wrote: ↑November 6th, 2021, 6:04 pm
maxgal wrote: ↑November 6th, 2021, 5:10 pm "It's Alice the Awful, come to spread cheer and cholera." -- A character named "Oscar" in A Bucket of Blood, Roger Corman's masterpiece.
Oh goodness, I hated that movie!

I love it more with every viewing.

maxgal · Post by **maxgal** » November 27th, 2021, 4:19 pm

maxgal wrote: ↑November 6th, 2021, 6:16 pm
mightyfelix wrote: ↑November 6th, 2021, 6:04 pm
maxgal wrote: ↑November 6th, 2021, 5:10 pm "It's Alice the Awful, come to spread cheer and cholera." -- A character named "Oscar" in A Bucket of Blood, Roger Corman's masterpiece.
Oh goodness, I hated that movie!
I love it more with every viewing.

And here's another from the same masterpiece (one of so many quotable quotes):
"I will talk to you of art, for there is nothing else to talk about, for there is nothing else."

maxgal · Post by **maxgal** » January 16th, 2022, 11:53 am

"And if all else was falling away from Oleron, gladly he was letting it go. So do we all when our Fair Ones beckon....
[P]erhaps there lurks within us all the time a heartless sprite who is never fooled; but in the end all falls away.
She beckons, beckons, and all goes...."
-- "The Beckoning Fair One" by Oliver Onions

Winnifred · Post by **Winnifred** » March 23rd, 2022, 11:04 am

“Þæs ofereode, þisses swa mæg”

Translates roughly as "That was overcome, so may this be." It's the refrain of an Old English poem called Deor, and was my inspiration for getting through graduate school many years ago (see http://www.anglo-saxons.net/hwaet/?do=get&type=text&id=Deor for the whole poem with footnotes).

Can be applied to just about any situation...

Cheers,
Winnifred

barbara2 · Post by **barbara2** » March 25th, 2022, 8:58 pm

Old men are dangerous. It doesn’t matter to them what is going to happen to the world. – George Bernard Shaw

Barbara

Peter Why · Post by **Peter Why** » March 26th, 2022, 12:17 am

"If you trust in yourself ... and believe in your dreams ... and follow your star .... you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things, and weren't so lazy."

Miss Tick, a witch in Terry Pratcett's "Wee Free Men"

Peter