Favorite Literary Quotes (short ones!)

[txphred]

"... Cry Havoc and loose the frogs of war..."

[SamKool]

"Fear is wisdom in the face of danger"-Sherlock Holmes

[annise]

Reality is that which refuses to go away when I stop believing in it. ~ Philip K Dick

[maxgal]

"When the milkman has done his worst, the watercress people come and mournfully ejaculate."

From Section 14 of Lost Leaders by Andrew Lang (my recent recording).
Since I had to say it, I thought I'd share it, for the icky image(s) it calls to mind.

[txphred]

"Learning to speak and write acceptable English is like learning to play the violin."

[u]Better English: Grade Five[/u]
By Harry Jewett Jeschke, M.A.

Fred

[marisad6]

“The best match in the world will not light a candle unless the wick be first suitably prepared.” (Algernon Blackwood, “The Man Who Found Out”)



“…in writing about Peace the thing is to say what everybody else is saying, only to say it better.” (Saki [H.H. Munro], “Reginald’s Peace Poem”)

[marisad6]

"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.

I can’t say I hated it, but I was highly disturbed by it…

[Dulcamara]

"Give' em blood and vinegar!"

Basil Stag Hare (Brian Jacques's Redwall series )

[maxgal]

"And your little dog, too!" -- snarled by the great Margaret Hamilton in The Wizard of Oz ( the most quotable movie of all time )

[redrun]

‘Chairs and tables and all such’, he said, waving his hand, ‘is for use in the meetings and partings of man; and the hills is for man to climb; and the stars to light him up’ards. But ne’er a one of ’em is ought to do with man hisself. For the end of man’s life is love - to give it and take it - and if he dunna, he met as well be dead.’
-- The Golden Arrow, by Mary Webb

[Dulcamara]

"There can be but slow progress while we are weighted down by the superstitions of ages past."
Helen H. Gardener

[patrickrandall]

"Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress." George Eliot, Middlemarch

George Eliot became my favorite author, and Middlemarch my favorite novel, all starting with that one sentence.

Cheers,
Patrick

[ashvxs]

"Well, here at last, dear friends, on the shores of the Sea comes the end of our fellowship in Middle-earth. Go in peace! I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil."
~ Gandalf, 'The Return of the King' by J. R. R. Tolkien

[TolkienFan]

"He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad"
First line of Scaramouche, by Rafael Sabatini

[TolkienFan]

"Give' em blood and vinegar!"

Basil Stag Hare (Brian Jacques's Redwall series )

Loved those books!