Favorite Literary Quotes (short ones!)
This topic almost certainly has come up before now, but I haven't found it, so I'll start it here:
"illimitable dominion" -- "The Masque of the Red Death," Edgar Allan Poe
"dark and stormy night" -- Paul Clifford, Edward Bulwer-Lytton
"illimitable dominion" -- "The Masque of the Red Death," Edgar Allan Poe
"dark and stormy night" -- Paul Clifford, Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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This isn't a phrase- rather a passage, I suppose, but I love the whole thing:
"'He jerked his head at Dill: 'Things haven't quite caught up with that one's instinct yet. Let him get a little older and he won't get sick and cry. Maybe things'll strike him as being- not quite right, say, but he won't cry, not when he gets a few years on him.'" from Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird
"'He jerked his head at Dill: 'Things haven't quite caught up with that one's instinct yet. Let him get a little older and he won't get sick and cry. Maybe things'll strike him as being- not quite right, say, but he won't cry, not when he gets a few years on him.'" from Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird
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Again, not a phrase but a quatrain. Anyone who's known me for a while knows who wrote it.
"Oh, my ways are strange ways and new ways and old ways,
And deep ways and steep ways and high ways and low,
I'm at home and at ease on a track that I know not,
And restless and lost on a road that I know."
Cheers,
Chris
"Oh, my ways are strange ways and new ways and old ways,
And deep ways and steep ways and high ways and low,
I'm at home and at ease on a track that I know not,
And restless and lost on a road that I know."
Cheers,
Chris
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Edit the first post- you can change the topic title through there.
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Wow, you're quick!JayKitty76 wrote: βNovember 20th, 2020, 4:33 pmEdit the first post- you can change the topic title through there.
And...done!
Louise
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Hahahaha I logged on (incidentally) just when you'd posted it-- it said "less than a minute ago"maxgal wrote: βNovember 20th, 2020, 4:35 pmWow, you're quick!JayKitty76 wrote: βNovember 20th, 2020, 4:33 pmEdit the first post- you can change the topic title through there.
And...done!
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Well, so now you have to contribute a fave of your own!JayKitty76 wrote: βNovember 20th, 2020, 4:36 pmHahahaha I logged on (incidentally) just when you'd posted it-- it said "less than a minute ago"maxgal wrote: βNovember 20th, 2020, 4:35 pmWow, you're quick!JayKitty76 wrote: βNovember 20th, 2020, 4:33 pm
Edit the first post- you can change the topic title through there.
And...done!
Louise
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I already did but I might as well do another one (apologies, I can't seem to keep it to a couple words only):maxgal wrote: βNovember 20th, 2020, 4:39 pmWell, so now you have to contribute a fave of your own!JayKitty76 wrote: βNovember 20th, 2020, 4:36 pmHahahaha I logged on (incidentally) just when you'd posted it-- it said "less than a minute ago"
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