Favorite Literary Quotes (short ones!)

Dulcamara · Post by **Dulcamara** » January 21st, 2024, 7:10 am

TolkienFan wrote: ↑January 17th, 2024, 6:21 pm
Dulcamara wrote: ↑June 2nd, 2023, 12:36 pm "Give' em blood and vinegar!"

Basil Stag Hare (Brian Jacques's Redwall series )
Loved those books!

Absolutely loved them too!!!

MuirneEWallace · Post by **MuirneEWallace** » March 15th, 2024, 3:30 pm

"Indeed, to know is a thing that pleases talkers and boasters, but to do is that which pleases God." -The Pilgrim's Progress

brucek · Post by **brucek** » March 24th, 2024, 7:15 pm

"If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all."

--Life in a nutshell as spoken by Hamlet in Act V, Scene ii - the final Scene of his final Act.

IonaMuirgel2002 · Post by **IonaMuirgel2002** » March 25th, 2024, 11:05 am

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” -Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.

Post by **mightyfelix** » March 28th, 2024, 7:31 am

I heard this one today. Isn't it beautiful? I might need to read this book.

"It is the memory of time that makes us old; remembering eternity makes us young again."
-Stratford Caldecott, Beauty in the Word

vviera · Post by **vviera** » March 28th, 2024, 7:42 am

mightyfelix wrote: ↑March 28th, 2024, 7:31 am I heard this one today. Isn't it beautiful? I might need to read this book.

"It is the memory of time that makes us old; remembering eternity makes us young again."
-Stratford Caldecott, Beauty in the Word

That IS beautiful. Thanks for sharing.

barbara2 · Post by **barbara2** » March 29th, 2024, 6:08 am

"Mum, Teresa, quoth Sancho, 'tis not all Gold that glisters , and every Man was not born with a Silver Spoon in his Mouth."

Dr. Johnson - "If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our [silver] spoons."

Ralph Waldo Emerson - "The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our [silver] spoons,"

Best,

Barbara

Post by **mightyfelix** » March 29th, 2024, 7:39 am

"Monseignor, you believe in making use of everything, but this fourth plot is wasted. Salads are more useful than flowers." "You are wrong, replied the bishop. "The beautiful is as useful as the useful." Then, after a pause, he added: "More so, perhaps."
(Les Miserables, Part 1, Book 1, Chapter 6)

Why, all the souls that were were forfeit once,
And He that might the vantage best have took
Found out the remedy.
(Measure for Measure, Act 2, scene 2)

Bookworm360 · Post by **Bookworm360** » March 29th, 2024, 9:43 am

mightyfelix wrote: ↑March 29th, 2024, 7:39 am "Monseignor, you believe in making use of everything, but this fourth plot is wasted. Salads are more useful than flowers." "You are wrong, replied the bishop. "The beautiful is as useful as the useful." Then, after a pause, he added: "More so, perhaps."
(Les Miserables, Part 1, Book 1, Chapter 6)

brucek · Post by **brucek** » March 29th, 2024, 1:25 pm

"There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries."

--Proclaimed by Brutus in Julius Caesar, Act IV, Scene iii.