Mine: ...'It is a truth universally acknowledged.'
I can't remember what the universally acknowledged truth WAS! (I just love that line.)
2007-09-18 22:11:43 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
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 and Prejudice (1813) is the quote you are forgetting.
Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice. —Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967; trans. Gregory Rabassa) is the actual opening line referenced by a different response.
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. —George Orwell, 1984 (1949) is the whole quote referenced by yet another response.
But I will go with...The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up. —G. K. Chesterton, The Napoleon of Notting Hill (1904)
2007-09-18 22:23:04 · answer #1 · answered by 8of2kinds 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
It is a short story by John Peyton Cooke called The Penitent. The girl says in the very first line "Ever since I was a young girl I have always wanted to torture a beautiful young boy." It is in a compilation book called Dark Love.
2007-09-18 22:36:09 · answer #2 · answered by LadyLeatherneck 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Death is one but crossing the world,as friends do the seas;they live in one another still.for they must needs be present,that love and live in what is omnipresent.in this divine glass they see face to face;and their converse is free,as well as pure.this is the comfort of friends,that though they may be said to die,yet their friendship and society are,in the best sense ever present,because immortal
-william penn,more fruits of solitude
i just love thes lines the come in harry potter and the deathly hallows it's the second epigraph-it's really wonderful and meaningful and the perfect way to open a beautiful book
2007-09-19 01:04:16 · answer #3 · answered by ^addy92^ 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I really dislike reading Dickens -- the man tries to pack too many words into a novel. Someone once told me that that was because he was paid by the word, and wrote accordingly.
But, he did turn a phrase or two, that man. I have to agree with the above, "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times." This rings through everywhere.
(-: I quite like Sophie Kinsella's Shopaholic novels, too. They invariably open with "Don't panic." My favorite phrase from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and an overall useful phrase to read on a regular basis, IMO.
Isn't it strange -- we can hate (or just be totally indifferent) to a novel as a whole, but can still love one little phrase in it?
2007-09-18 23:48:18 · answer #4 · answered by Madame M 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
A white Pomeranian named Fluffy flew out of a fifth-floor window in Panna, which was a brand-new building with the painter's scaffolding still around it.
Sacred games - Vikram Chandra
2007-09-18 22:23:43 · answer #5 · answered by Chud E 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
On the first day of their honeymoon, infamous environmental activist Stewie Woods and his new bride Annabel Bellotti were spiking trees in the forest when a cow exploded and blew them up. Until then, their marriage had been happy.
C.J. Box
Savage Run
2007-09-18 22:20:06 · answer #6 · answered by Doodie 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
"No one would have believed in the early years of the 21st century that our world was being watched by intelligences greater than our own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns, *they* observed and studied, the way a man with a microscope might scrutinize the creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. With infinite complacency, men went to and fro about the globe, confident of our empire over this world. Yet across the gulf of space, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic regarded our planet with envious eyes and slowly, and surely, drew their plans against us." Absolute Class!!!!!
2007-09-18 22:22:13 · answer #7 · answered by Phoenix 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-19 02:05:12 · answer #8 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sam Vimes sighed when he heard the scream, but he finished shaving before he did anything about it.
Night Watch - Terry Pratchett
2007-09-18 22:17:09 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times". With just 12 words, Charles Dickens set the tone of chaos and upheaval that was the French Revolution; and the source of discontent of the people.
2007-09-18 23:30:48 · answer #10 · answered by sugarbabe 6 · 5⤊ 0⤋