Share your favourite literary quote

[SheHasAWildHeart]

"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
~ Hamlet, William Shakespeare

[KingJoffreyLikesJaffaCakes]

Whenever they catch you they will kill you. But first they must catch you...

Richard Adams

[EDisFunny]

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

Jane Austen

[magimedi]

”From quiet homes and first beginning,
Out to the undiscovered ends,
There’s nothing worth the wear of winning,
But laughter and the love of friends.”

– Hilaire Belloc

[annandale]

KingJoffrey love that :)

'...I leave it to whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or to reward filial disobedience.'

(actually also has a Watership Down link, that one)

[EveryoneElsie]

'like an old man in tight boots walking over cobbles'

Charles Dickens describing a crow, Barnaby Rudge.

[SorrelForbes]

I wonder’ – Petrova looked up - ‘If other girls had to be one of us, which of us they’d choose to be?

Noel Streatfeild

[Bogeyface]

"Got a smile like a wave on a slop bucket"

Soul Music, Terry Pratchett

[spirallinganxiety]

"Words are, in my not so humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic."

Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore ()

[mithy]

June in her eyes, in her heart January.

Thomas Carew.

[Pipbin]

“Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need - a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous thing. ”


― Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat

[Jaimx86]

I love the nihilism of Bret Easton Ellis. I don't want to care. If I care about things, it'll just be worse, it'll just be another thing to worry about. It's less painful if I don't care.
Bret Easton Ellis, Less Than Zero

[TulipsInAJug]

"It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known."

Last line of A Tale of Two Cities

[MrsLeighHalfpenny]

“Wendy," Peter Pan continued in a voice that no woman has ever yet been able to resist, "Wendy, one girl is more use than twenty boys.”

[OneInAMillionYou]

"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."

L.P. Hartley. The Go-Between

I find it unbearably poignant, the regrets we all have and the longing for another time.

[Armi]

'Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passin'.'

To Kill A Mockingbird. But there are so many fantastic quotations from that novel...

[silvermantela]

'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away."

Ozymandias, by Shelley

also

So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

Sonnet 18, Shakespeare

Thus, though we cannot make our sun
Stand still, yet we will make him run.

To His Coy Mistress, Marvell

Hmmm, seem to be in a bit of an existential mood tonight!Must be Sat night

[MrsLeighHalfpenny]

Pipbin Three Men in a Boat is my favourite book, ever.

[Starman16]

"There was no end to the ways in which nice things are nicer than nasty ones"

Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim

[Baconyum]

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.

[ratspeaker]

Dont panic - Douglas Adams

In ancient times cats were worshiped as gods. They have not forgotten this- Terry Pratchett

[TheNotoriousPMT]

"You were sick, but now you are well, and there is work to be done."

Kurt Vonnegut, Timequake, I probably slightly misquoted but that's the gist.

"Her body curved like a Raymond Chandler simile." Neil Gaiman getting a bit meta.

[OneInAMillionYou]

My second favourite, from my favourite poet, T.S. Eliot

" Footfalls echo in the memory down the passage which we did not take towards the door we never opened, into the rose garden."

[dimots]

"There is only one god, and his name is Death. And there is only one thing we say to Death: 'Not today'." ―Syrio Forel. Game of Thrones

[ThreeBarrels]

'This above all, to thine own self be true, and it must follow as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man'

Hamlet

[SupSlick]

We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.