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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

"The great fish moved silently through the night water..."

"meretricious persiflage" from D.H. Lawrence's Women in Love

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

Well, that's certainly OK, I suppose, to offer a sentence about THE shark, or even a passage from one of the best...
We need all the favorite stuff we can get.

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

"Life .... don't talk to me about Life." Marvin the Paranoid Android in Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Peter

If anyone knows how to change the title of this unexpectedly amorphous thread, please do so!
Probably to something like "Favorite Literary Quotes"...?

maxgal wrote: ↑November 20th, 2020, 4:32 pm If anyone knows how to change the title of this unexpectedly amorphous thread, please do so!
Probably to something like "Favorite Literary Quotes"...?

Edit the first post- you can change the topic title through there.

JayKitty76 wrote: ↑November 20th, 2020, 4:33 pm

maxgal wrote: ↑November 20th, 2020, 4:32 pm If anyone knows how to change the title of this unexpectedly amorphous thread, please do so!
Probably to something like "Favorite Literary Quotes"...?

Edit the first post- you can change the topic title through there.

Wow, you're quick!
And...done!

...and speaking of "done"... here's another fave:

"Done as if by order!" -- Fred C. Dobbs (Humphrey Bogart) in Treasure of the Sierra Madre (the film), dir. John Huston

maxgal wrote: ↑November 20th, 2020, 4:35 pm

JayKitty76 wrote: ↑November 20th, 2020, 4:33 pm

maxgal wrote: ↑November 20th, 2020, 4:32 pm If anyone knows how to change the title of this unexpectedly amorphous thread, please do so!
Probably to something like "Favorite Literary Quotes"...?

Edit the first post- you can change the topic title through there.

Wow, you're quick!
And...done!

Hahahaha I logged on (incidentally) just when you'd posted it-- it said "less than a minute ago"

...and while I'm at it...

"Conscience! What a thing!" -- Fred C. Dobbs (Humphrey Bogart) in Treasure of the Sierra Madre (the film), dir. John Huston

JayKitty76 wrote: ↑November 20th, 2020, 4:36 pm

maxgal wrote: ↑November 20th, 2020, 4:35 pm

JayKitty76 wrote: ↑November 20th, 2020, 4:33 pm

Edit the first post- you can change the topic title through there.

Wow, you're quick!
And...done!

Hahahaha I logged on (incidentally) just when you'd posted it-- it said "less than a minute ago"

Well, so now you have to contribute a fave of your own!

maxgal wrote: ↑November 20th, 2020, 4:39 pm

JayKitty76 wrote: ↑November 20th, 2020, 4:36 pm

maxgal wrote: ↑November 20th, 2020, 4:35 pm

Wow, you're quick!
And...done!

Hahahaha I logged on (incidentally) just when you'd posted it-- it said "less than a minute ago"

Well, so now you have to contribute a fave of your own!

I already did but I might as well do another one (apologies, I can't seem to keep it to a couple words only):

"Yes, that's the way they think, these hundred thousand Kantoreks! Iron Youth! Youth! We are none of us more than twenty years old. But young? Youth? That is long ago. We are old folk." - All Quiet on the Western Front, by Erich Maria Remarque