Subject: Favorite Literary Quotes
Posted by: Lorvanwa
Date: Nov 19 11
I thought a favorite quotes thread might be fun, and after searching for an existing one to no avail, I decided to create one!
I have two:
1) "Dust, dust, how stubborn you are, how impudent! All delights of the eye decay in you. All pillars of light in the world you consume and pulverize. How insolent you are! ... Dust, dust, do not boast! The pillars of the world will not be surrendered to you." [Rabbi Hiyya, "Sefer ha-Zohar]
2)"In the deep places, He [Ulmo] gives thought to music great and terrible; and the echo of that music runs through all the veins of the world in sorrow and in joy; for if joyful is the fountain that rises in the sun, its springs are in the wells of sorrow unfathomed at the foundations of the Earth" [J.R.R. Tolkien, "The Silmarillion"]
Posted by: Lorvanwa
Date: Nov 19 11
I thought a favorite quotes thread might be fun, and after searching for an existing one to no avail, I decided to create one!
I have two:
1) "Dust, dust, how stubborn you are, how impudent! All delights of the eye decay in you. All pillars of light in the world you consume and pulverize. How insolent you are! ... Dust, dust, do not boast! The pillars of the world will not be surrendered to you." [Rabbi Hiyya, "Sefer ha-Zohar]
2)"In the deep places, He [Ulmo] gives thought to music great and terrible; and the echo of that music runs through all the veins of the world in sorrow and in joy; for if joyful is the fountain that rises in the sun, its springs are in the wells of sorrow unfathomed at the foundations of the Earth" [J.R.R. Tolkien, "The Silmarillion"]
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Mariamir
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"'Tis mad 'tis true, 'tis pity 'tis true, 'tis true 'tis pity 'tis true." -Hamlet. I'm not sure this is the exact quote, but I thought it fun. Reply #1. Dec 30 11, 5:16 AM |
tigasrule 
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"We call first truths those we discover after all the others." Albert Camus, 'The Fall' Reply #2. Dec 30 11, 5:58 AM |
rayven80
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“Screw up my life?" He stared at me for a second and then said, deadpan, "I'm a five-foot-three, thirty-seven-year-old, single, Jewish medical examiner who needs to pick up his lederhosen from the dry cleaners so that he can play in a one-man polka band at Oktoberfest tomorrow." He pushed up his glasses with his forefinger, folded his arms, and said, "Do your worst.” ? Jim Butcher, Dead Beat Reply #3. Jan 30 14, 10:49 AM |
Rowena8482
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The one I always write in cards when I congratulate new parents - "A baby cried, and a world began" Reply #4. May 22 14, 5:00 PM |
daver852
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"The Battle of Yorktown was lost on the playing fields of Eton." - H. Allen Smith Reply #5. May 22 14, 6:57 PM |
kaddarsgirl
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"It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest I go to than I have ever known." - Dickens (Sydney Carton in "A Tale of Two Cities") Reply #6. May 22 14, 7:36 PM |
| rayven80
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"And then that young rogue had the temerity to salute and say "Admiral Benden, may I present the Dragonriders of Pern" Anne McCaffrey "Dragonseye" Reply #7. May 29 14, 10:03 AM |
alexis722
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"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." Polonius (?) in Hamlet. Ironic, because he himself was not true. Please correct if this is misquoted, it's been a long time. Reply #8. May 29 14, 11:02 AM |
| rayven80
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I checked Alexis, it's perfectly right. Reply #9. May 29 14, 12:52 PM |
| rayven80
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“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.” ? Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince Reply #10. Jun 09 14, 3:37 PM |
| rayven80
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" And when you ride against the Mackenzies, you nasty little booger, keep your visor down." A Meeting at Corvallis by S. M. Stirling. Reply #11. Jul 29 14, 3:25 PM |
Mixamatosis
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Light thickens, and the crow Makes wing to th' rooky wood. Good things of day begin to droop and drowse; Whiles night’s black agents to their preys do rouse. (Macbeth) Reply #12. Jul 21 15, 10:16 AM |
rosifer
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"It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death" 'The Praise Singer' Mary Renault Reply #13. Jul 23 15, 6:46 AM |
| Mixamatosis
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Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Grey. The country churchyard is at Stoke Poges and I remember visiting it on a school trip when I was about 8 or 9 and taking photos of my friends resting their heads on Thomas Grey's tomb. It's a long poem but I like the beginning which goes like this; The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimm'ring landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds; Reply #14. Mar 30 16, 3:58 PM |
| Mixamatosis
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About WW1, the German general Erich Ludendorff was heard to say "The English Generals are wanting in strategy. We should have no chance if they possessed as much science as their officers and men had of courage and bravery. They are lions led by donkeys." Reply #15. Jul 18 16, 3:48 PM |
| callie_ross
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"Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio." That whole monologue is very touching. I never really cared for Shakespeare until I had to read 'Hamlet' for a college course I was taking. Now I better appreciate his works. Reply #16. Jul 18 16, 4:21 PM |
Skyflyerjen
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"... I am convinced that the only people worthy of consideration in this world are the unusual ones. For the common folks are like the leaves of a tree, and live and die unnoticed." -The Scarecrow From L. Frank Baum's "Marvelous Land of Oz". Reply #17. Aug 20 16, 8:15 AM |
| Mixamatosis
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A lovely poem by W.B. Yeats - The Lake Isle of Inisfree I WILL arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made: Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honeybee, And live alone in the bee-loud glade. And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings; There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet's wings. I will arise and go now, for always night and day I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore; While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey, I hear it in the deep heart's core. Reply #18. Aug 20 16, 11:07 AM |
elmo7
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Mixa, you have posted some good ones. How do you feel about Yeats' "Sailing to Byzantium"? Reply #19. Aug 23 16, 8:23 PM |
| Mixamatosis
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Elmo7. I've not read it before. I've just read it now and I like it. It sounds like Yeats was thinking about his own death. The expression is gorgeous and there are always memorable lines in Yeats. The very first line "This is no country for old men" must be the source of the title of the Cohen Brothers film. There's a joke I've heard somewhere but I can't recall the context. I think it may be a line from a sitcom. One character is asking another if they like Yeats. The other replies that he doesn't know and asks "What's a yeat?" Reply #20. Aug 26 16, 8:59 AM |
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