One of my favourite quotes is from one of the Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy series.

"Humans have a talent for stating the obvious. Such as 'It's lovely weather today isn't it.' or "Oh dear, you seem to have fallen down a 30 foot well, are you alright?'

I'm not sure if that is the exact wording, because I havn't read the book in a while, but that was the general gist of it.

"I was neat, clean, shaved and sober, and I didn't care who knew it." - Raymond Chandler

There are a lot of good quotations in the first couple chapters of "The Fellowship of the Ring", but any line from "Ubu Roi" could be the best book line ever.

I'm rather fond of Twilight quotes...such as "And so the lion fell in love with the lamb." and the following, "What a stupid lamb." and "What a sick, masochostic lion." And the others: "I'm prepared to be annoyingly persistant." (Jacob) and others that I would say, but they would give away spoilers and I shouldn't do that.

"The enemy is whoever is going to get you killed, no matter what side he's on"- Catch-22 by Joseph Heller.

One of my favourites,is actually in the dedication at the begining(either Tom Holt or Robert Rankin i think).

To Guy Fawkes,the only man ever to enter parliament with a view to making things better!

How true.

Can I have a line from a play as one of my favourites?

“All classes are criminal today. We live in an age of equality”.

Taken from Joe Orton's Funeral Games

I think my favourite ever book line is
"Look Raist, bunnies" from "Test of the Twins" by Weis and Hickman.
It doesn't sound like anything marvellous on it's own, but when you come to it in the narrative of the final book of 6 it is just perfect. It's the love of a brother and how that love can redeem the most hopeless soul when nothing else can, and it's beautiful.

Could Dumbledore also have been phrasing the saying "It's better to light a candle then to curse the darkness"?

My favorite comes from, The Journals Of Lewis And Clark.

The famous quote from Clark when after a year and a half they finally make it to the Pacific, "Ocian in view! O! The Joy."

I LOVE that.

"recovering from the wedding revels in the apostolic lap of Maria Alejandrina Cervantes."

"Chronicles of a Death Foretold"
-Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Had to read this for a Latin America Lit. class and fell in love with all of his writings. Small book, one day read for an avid reader, great body of works overall.

"I dreamt I went to Manderlay again."

From "Rebecca" by Daphne Du Maurier

Somewhere in "The Lords of Discipline" by Pat Conroy, the narrator, Will McLean, says that military college is "not really the military, and not really college."

My favourite line comes from Alberto Moravia's "La Romana" (The Woman from Rome): " gli uomini sono degni di compassione soltanto perchè vivono", which translates into "human beings are worthy of compassion merely because they live". A bit gloomy, I know, but it made a lasting impression on me (I read the book like 10 years ago).

"Zack was shocked. He knew that his butt had gone feral, but he'd never seen it kill anything before. He had to get it back. He knew that once a butt gets a taste for killing, it is very difficult for it to stop." --Andy Griffiths, The Day My Butt Went Psycho

Note: both the title and the text have been changed substantially from the Australian version, wherein the word "bum" was used.

Using the Bible is unfair...Jesus' words outshine any other.

With that caveat, how 'bout Hamlet: "O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space--were it not that I have bad dreams."

"Many that live deserve death and many that die deserve life. Can you give it to them, Frodo? Do not be to eager to deal out death and judgement for even the wisest cannot see all ends." - The Lord of the Rings.

"Forty-two," said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm.
- Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

I've a lot of favorite book lines; some examples:

"The red sun was pasted in the sky like a wafer" Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage

"The judge chopped the air with his hatchet face" Ross Macdonald, Wild Goose Chase

"They threw me off the hay truck about noon" James M. Cain, The Postman Always Rings Twice

"Live! Live! Life is a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death!" Patrick Dennis, Auntie Mame

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I'm a huge Jane Austin fan, so I find it hard to go past..."It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."

Dicken's Tale of Two Cities' opening line also deserves a nod-"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair."

Another of my favourites is "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen." from George Orwell's 1984.

Glad to hear it!
But "I will not eat green eggs and ham..." (followed by "in a house" "with a mouse" etc) may top it, if only for the sentimental quality of being able to repeat it ten years after reading the book.

"Most killer whales are just four tons of doofus dressed up like a police car" - Fluke by Christopher Moore

Very few lines jump and grab me like the one I am using for my signature. I am a huge fan of Fantasy and this line made me stop and reread it again.

My favourite line is from the Wheel of Time.
"Death is lighter than a feather,
Duty heavier than a mountain" Shienaran saying.
"That mountain can get pretty heavy some times, when do you get to put it down?" Rand
"When you die" Lan
Very serious and truthful stuff there.