Geek me up. Your favourite literary quotes? Name the text and add your own.

[ClawsandEffect]

Better never means better for everyone.

Unsex me here.

Dresden Files?

An easy one but one of the very best - it is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.

Saki, Tobermory, for the Axminster?

…and as they passed along in sunshine and in shade, the noisy and the eager, and the arrogant and the froward and the vain, fretted, and chafed, and made their usual uproar.

Indeed it is - Jeeves and the impending doom 😁

Howard’s End

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.

Ah wonderful daisychain - Tale of Two Cities.

An easy one which I love so much.

’Mr. Knightley seemed to be trying not to smile; and succeeded without difficulty, upon Mrs. Elton's beginning to talk to him’

Pride and Prejudice!

"If a woman have the misfortune to know anything, she should do her best to conceal it".

… the growing good of the world is partly dependent upon unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.

Northanger Abbey!

Good things come to an end. Bad things have to be stopped.
(Not literature, but my favourite quote.)

Frankenstein - Mary Shelly.

My current fav - maybe a modern literary one?

“People love to believe in danger, as long as it’s you in harm’s way, and them saying bless your heart.”

A Tale of Two Cities.

'I haven't killed anyone for ages and don't intend to do so again. It was just a stage I was going through.'

Wuthering Heights, I was going to quote this line.

placemats where is the overflow pipe quotation from? I want to read that book.

I think I have too many to name. I'll have to choose just a few.

I don't want to wrong anybody, so I won't go so far as to say that she actually wrote poetry. But her conversation to my mind was of a nature calculated to excite the liveliest suspicions.

"Plum puffs won't minister to a mind diseased."

I plodded conscientiously through the twenty-six letters, and the only malady I could conclude I had not got was housemaid's knee.

Indeed - Saki is full of good quotes.

Oh I love Charlotte's Web!

Emma! @PermanentTemporary

“Barkis is willing”.

And mine is:
“In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since. "Whenever you feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.”

Also: "This above all, to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou cans't not then be false to any man (Polonius, Hamlet)

The Wasp Factory. Haven't read it for decades but I remembered that line. I must reread it.

'the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!'

Promise you will always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem and smarter than you think.

Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.

Emma - Jane Austen

All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way

I have this quote in my house. It’s Kerouac On The Road

Anna Karenina @Wafflefinder