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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AcrylicInk 
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There are a few parts of Jane Eyre that I really like. 'I am no bird; and no net ensares me.' And when Jane is a child talking to Mr Brocklehurst: 'No sight so sad as that of a naughty child," he began, "especially a naughty little girl. Do you know where the wicked go after death?" "They go to hell," was my ready and orthodox answer. "And what is hell? Can you tell me that?" "A pit full of fire." "And should you like to fall into that pit, and to be burning there for ever?" "No, sir." "What must you do to avoid it?" I deliberated a moment: my answer, when it did come was objectionable: "I must keep in good health and not die." ' Reply #41. Jul 01 17, 5:06 PM |
misstified
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I've always been amused by the start of Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen: "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." Reply #42. Nov 06 17, 3:23 PM |
Mixamatosis
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In the Merchant of Venice, while Bassanio is choosing a casket in the hope of winning the hand of Portia, a song is sung which begins "O tell me where is fancy bred, in the heart or in the head?" Apparently it's meant to give a clue to Bassanio as it all rhymes with "lead" and the lead casket is the right one to choose. I am in the middle of reading "Ulysses" by James Joyce. He's obviously an admirer of Shakespeare as it's peppered with references to his works, and I came across this reference "O tell me where is fancy bread? At Rourke's the baker's it is said." Reply #43. Jul 31 18, 3:42 AM |
TheBadAngel
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“Something Vimes had learned as a young guard drifted up from memory. If you have to look along the shaft of an arrow from the wrong end, if a man has you entirely at his mercy, then hope like hell that man is an evil man. Because the evil like power, power over people, and they want to see you in fear. They want you to know you're going to die. So they'll talk. They'll gloat. They'll watch you squirm. They'll put off the moment of murder like another man will put off a good cigar. So hope like hell your captor is an evil man. A good man will kill you with hardly a word.” - from 'Men At Arms' by Terry Pratchett Reply #44. Sep 26 18, 2:23 PM |
Dagny1
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I just ran across this one. It's actually in a review and not a book I've read, but the quote makes me want to read the book. The reviewer did say that it wasn't their favorite book by Fay Weldon, but still, I want to at least peruse it and see if I'm interested in continuing. "Women tend to be more than one person," said Angel, "at the best of times, Men get just to be the one." --- Splitting by Fay Weldon Reply #45. Aug 27 19, 9:15 AM |
rockstar51
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"Hey, Boo" - Scout, in To Kill a Mockingbird Reply #46. Aug 30 19, 7:05 PM |
Cymruambyth
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"There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats...or with boats...in or out of 'em, it doesn't matter." Kenneth Grahame, 'The Wind in the Willows'. Reply #47. Sep 02 19, 12:17 PM |
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Ah, I love Wind in the Willows. It always made me feel warm and cosy reading the chapter on Mole. I think he's my favourite character in that book. Reply #48. Sep 12 19, 4:39 PM |
VBookWorm
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The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare. "If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?" Shylock said this. In The Merchant of Venice, he is a Jew, who Christians try to convince not to be Jewish. The Christians are anti-Semetic and Shylock says this passage to tell them thats Jews are like any other people who feel the same things. In 'The Pianist', a Roman Polanski film, starring Adrien Brody as the title role, Wladyslaw Szpilman, Wladyslaw's brother Henryk (Ed Stoppard) is a book-reader and reads Shakespeare. He read this passage out loud in the movie. I love the way he did it. The movie is about the Holocaust and anti-semites, so it's fits perfectly. Reply #49. Nov 16 22, 2:09 PM |
Jacquilyn
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“Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.” ----Frankenstein by Mary Shelley Reply #50. Nov 19 22, 9:45 AM |
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