What are your favorite literary quotes?

Question

movies don't count... books only (Or if you have any fun quotes by famous authors about writing.... i love thoes too)

THANKS!

Answer 1

Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends (Tolkien).

I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve (Tolkien).

I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers(Kahlil Gibran).

The more laws and order are made prominent, The more thieves and robbers there will be. Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu.

Answer 2

"Same ****, different day." By the gang from Stephen King's Dreamcatcher. A great literary masterpiece, this quote has always stood out to me because everytime I look in the news it seems that the same bad things keep occuring. People dying, countries at war, irreversable damage to the environment. It just show what the world has become.

Answer 3

“If ever there is a tomorrow when we're not together.. there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we're apart.. I'll always be with you.”

and

“Wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on the top of the forest, a little boy and his Bear will always be playing.”

Winnie the Pooh

Answer 4

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the Glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own Light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. (Nelson Mandella)

“People believe I am what they see Me as, rather than what they do not see. But I am the Great Unseen, not what I cause Myself to be in any particular moment. In a sense, I am what I am not. It is from the Am-notness that I come, and to it I always return.” Neale Donald Walsch

Answer 5

My two favorites are:

"Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact" --George Eliot

and

"One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats - and one always secretes too much jelly" -- Virginia Woolf

Answer 6

"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."

- Jane Austen, Pride & Prejudice

Answer 7

"Why don't you write books people can read?" - Nora Joyce to her husband, James

"It's better to be quotable than to be honest." - Tom Stoppard

...and a series of quotes...

"Plato was a bore." - Nietzsche
"Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." - Tolstoy
"I'm not going to climb in the ring with Tolstoy." - Hemingway
"Hemingway was a jerk." - Harold Robbins

Answer 8

The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep.
And miles to go before I sleep.

-Robert Frost

Answer 9

"Our arborial ancestors used to **** on their enemies while perched in trees. All modern rockets, planes, and bombs are just elaborations on that primal instinct." Oryx and Crake, Margaret Atwood. Best book you will ever read.

Answer 10

"He loved Big Brother."

- "1984" by George Orwell