What is your favourite line from a book, poem or play?

Answer 1

"What's it going to be then, eh?" the first line of each section of A Clockwork Orange.

Answer 2

....alone in a nightmare of mud, and leaning.
This is only part of a sentence, from the first page of the Douglas Adam's book "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency" but those few words are so enigmatic and evocative. I would quote the whole two page first chapter, but I don't have the energy it's far too hot. If you like comic-tragic-time traveling-ghost-detective stories, then this book is for you.

Answer 3

The entire chapter 52 titled "Rodman Plummer's Advice" from the book "A Question of Survival" by Julian F. Thompson.
"When the inmates take over the asylum, the smartest thing to do is cross your eyes and piss down the stairwell."

(Yes, that's the entire chapter.)

I also like a line in "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck.
"Oh, strawberries don't taste as they used to, and the thighs of women have lost their clutch!"

Finally, from "Chapterhouse: Dune" by Frank Herbert:
"All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptable."

Answer 4

Arise!Awake!stop not;till the goal is reached!-from swami vivekanandas book.

cry for others in ur eyses...from a song from the film Indian.Its by poet vairamuthu.

Answer 5

From the poem,
"TO THE RIVER",

..."Stones I'll skip across the water,
Trailing close behind my prayers;
Out into the Universe where
I'll release, to You, my cares.

Answer 6

god's last words to the universe, written in 40' letters of fire; from Douglas Adams' "Restaurant At The End of the Universe"

"we apologize for the inconvenience"

Answer 7

from "Pippa Passes" by Robert Browning and quoted by P.G. Wodehouse at the end of most of his books

The year's at the spring
And day's at the morn;
Morning's at seven;
The hill-side's dew-pearled
The lark's on the wing;
The snail's on the thorn;
God's in his Heaven -
All's right with the world!

Answer 8

"Fight Club" by Chuck Palahniuk

"You're not your job. You're not how much money you have in the bank. You're not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet. You're not your f*cking khakis."

That line tells me that I am more than the sum of my materialistic posessions. It may seem self-evident, but to a lot of people it is not.

Answer 9

" If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like doing into it, if you want to know the truth.

-Catcher in the Rye p.1

Answer 10

"Curiouser and curiouser" Alice in Wonderland
"Oh, what fools these mortals be!" A Midsummer Night's Dream

Answer 11

The grave is a fine
and private place,
but none I think do
there embrace.