From any piece of literature, what is the most memorable and catchy opening line for you?
2007-05-15 04:04:30 · 18 answers · asked by House M.D. 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry, and is widely regarded as a bad move.
2007-05-15 07:28:29 · answer #1 · answered by David T 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I'm torn b/w Dickens's "It was the best of times..." and Austen's "It is a truth universally acknowledged...."
Maybe these lines are so famous because they indicate to the reader the book's project of troubling a previously held aphorism.
And we shouldn't forget Romeo and Juliet's-
"Two households, both alike in dignity,
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean."
2007-05-15 05:29:29 · answer #2 · answered by caryn t 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents, except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the house-tops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness. —Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, Paul Clifford (1830)
2007-05-15 08:31:01 · answer #3 · answered by Adri 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
London.
Charles Dickens' Bleak House.
2007-05-15 04:09:18 · answer #4 · answered by ari-pup 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Spice1 - Coolin on the corner with a celluar phone, You can tell that the East Bay was his home, More mail the rest of the pushas cuz he got a Tec-9 in the bushes
2016-05-18 21:10:07 · answer #5 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"You do an awfully good impression of yourself."
Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis
I'd have to give him the best last line award too for
American Psycho:
"THIS IS NOT AN EXIT"
2007-05-15 10:00:30 · answer #6 · answered by insidiari 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The first sentence of Donna Tartt's 'The Secret History'. It effectively tells you that a murder has been committed, who it's been committed by, and yet you are still keen to read on...
2007-05-15 05:57:58 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Naturally and cliche, from A Tale of Two Cities...
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..." Which was an amazing opening for an amazing book. Go read it if you haven't.
2007-05-15 04:12:09 · answer #8 · answered by megan5hp1 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
"Call me Ishmael." Melville's American Romantic classic, the incomparable Moby Dick!
2007-05-15 04:37:52 · answer #9 · answered by poet 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a man in possession of a good fortune is in want of a wife.
This is so true but its debatable whether or not he wants a wife or simply arm candy.
2007-05-15 04:43:24 · answer #10 · answered by meeko6811 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋