I don't know if this belongs here, but mods please move if it doesn't! :]

Anyway, I was just wondering out of the blue if any of you guys have any favorite literature quotes.
It can be from books, movies, just random ones o_o lol.

Hmm, i shall start:

"Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real."
-Tupac Shakur

"Whatever happens; remember one thing: just staying alive is a victory." - Sky Burial (Xin Ran)

"To be or not to be, that is the question." - William Shakespeare's Hamlet.

‘We have no choice of what colour we’re born…what we do have is some choice over what we make of our lives once we’re here.’ – Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor


I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character…- Martin Luther King


Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it. –Tom Lehrer


and quotes from Eleanor Roosevelt...
i like quite a lot of quotes

Ahhh there's one in from the Wife of Bath's Prologue, i just gotta find it...and you gotta love chaucer sometimes.

"Blessed be God that i have wedded five,/of whiche I have piked out of the beste,/bothe of hir nether purs and of hir cheste"

"How happy is the blameless Vestal's lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd." -
-- Alexander Pope

it was used in my favourite movie: 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind'

'Love is like water. Water, in all it's forms. It can squeezed between your fingers like your own tears. Burn and freeze your heart at the same time. It can evaporate before your very eyes in no more than an instant. Making a reservior to hold your love is the most difficult task in all the world. Yo will never do it if you do not understand first yourself, and then your beloved.' ~ Pamina from Sunlight & Shadow by Cameron Dokey

'Everyone and everything has a time to die ...' ~Sabriel from Sabriel by Garth Nix

'I've witness first hand the power of ideas. I've seen people kill in the name of them and die defending them. But you cannot kiss an idea ... cannot touch it or hold it. Ideas do not bleed. They do not feel pain. They do not love. And it is not an idea that I miss. It is a man.' ~Evey from V for Vendetta


&& i've got lots more but that'll do

"Eventually one must face that the end is near, and the end of The End is quite near indeed, so if I were you I would not read the end of The End, and it contains the end of a notorius villain but also the end of a brave and noble sibling, and the end of the colonists' stay on the island, as they sail off the end of the coastal shelf. The end of The End contains all these ends, and that does not depend on how you look at it, so it might be best for you to stop looking at The End before the end of The End arrives, and to stop reading The End before you read the end, as the stories that end in The End that began in The Bad Beginning are beginning to end now."
-Lemony Snicket "The End" the last book for The Series of Unfortunate Events

I actually like a lot of quotes from Lemony Snicket. I really can't list them all however.

thats one of mine too

there are plenty. i will write later


some of my favorite quotes are from that movie. and this one is definitely one of themm...

Literature quotes, why are there ones from movies?? o_O

anyway I like this king lear quote:

A man may see how this world goes with no eyes. Look with thine ears: see how yond justice rails upon yond simple thief. Hark, in thine ear: change places; and, handy-dandy, which is the justice, which is the thief?

Also

Through tatter'd clothes small vices do appear;
Robes and furr'd gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold,
And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks;
Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw does pierce it.


Both very true.

Also Jane Eyre

"Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as men would suffer; and it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags"

I would expect Charlotte Bronte to be one of the first feminist writers of the day, love it.

"Love is like a tree; it grows spontaneously, strikes its roots deep into our whole being and often continues to flourish over a heart in ruins." -Victor Hugo, Notre-Dame de Paris

"Good, as it ripens, becomes continually more different not only from evil but from other good." -C.S. Lewis, Preface to The Great Divorce

"A plan is a real thing, and things projected are experienced. A plan once made and visualized becomes a reality along with other realities - never to be destroyed but easily to be attacked." -John Steinbeck, The Pearl

". . .But for four years he kept repeating his love and she would always find a way to reject him without hurting him, for even though she had not succeeded in loving him she could no longer live without him." -Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

"My dear, I don't give a damn."
- Rhett Butler in Gone With The Wind

Err, nothing too profound. I remember that line making me gasp in shock and hate the ending. :| It's just a really memorable line.

^ it's 'frankly my dear, I don't give a damn'

the frankly gives it the oomf lol

Shakespeare quotes are my fav:

Hamlet:
"My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go."

"The rest is silence"

"The memory be green"

Othello:
"Your daughter and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs."

aha! my kind of thread(:
off-of-my-head-Wuthering Heights-quotes (my ultimate favorite novel)
"If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day."

"'I have no pity! I have no pity! The more the worms writhe, the more I yearn to crush out their entrails!""

"'You teach me now how cruel you've been- cruel and false. Why did you despise me? Why did you betray your own heart, Cathy? I have not one word of comfort. You deserve this. You have killed yourself. Yes, you may kiss me, and cry; and wring out my kisses and tears: they'll blight you- they'll damn you. You loved me- then what right had you to leave me?"

"-And yet i cannot continue in this condition! I have to remind myself to breathe- almost to remind my heart to beat!"

...i love this boooook.

Why do we even bother? Why do we make ourselves so open to easy damage? Is it all loneliness? Is it all fear? Or is it to experience those narcotic moments of belongingness with someone else?
- Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

"That's not true at all,” he disagreed. “It's not the face, but the expressions on it. It's not the
voice, but what you say. It's not how you look in that body, but the things you do with it.You
are beautiful.” - The Host
SO CUTE!!!!!!!!

"So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when
they’re busy doing things they think are important. This is because they’re chasing the
wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving
others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating
something that gives you purpose and meaning.” - Tuesdays with Morrie
Aw man, totally makes you rethink your life.

"let us do something unforgiveable" - Vampire Knight hahahaha
"the safest place is beside me" - i just found it very sweet

That's a quote from the movie. The book doesn't have "frankly".

Yeah it's "My dear, I don't give a damn."
Really lovely book.

I've so many favourite quotes from Tolkien's works and Princess Bride; but nothing comes to mind right now.

but the one quote that always stick in my mind is from Oscar Wilde:

"Ignorance is like an exotic flower; touch it and the bloom is gone" [or something like that]
- Lady Bracknell from The importance of being Earnest

"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent." &

"Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right."

both from Foundation by Isaac Asimov

"Hell is other people." -Jean-Paul Sartre.
"When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions." -William Shakespeare

"I am a restlessness inside a stillness inside a restlessness." Cassandra Mortmain from "I Capture the Castle"

and umm, Darcy's entire marriage proposal to Lizzy. yeah the whole thing

William Shakespeare Sonnet 18 (all of it! my fav. sonnet, super romantic!)

"It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble."

- H.G Wells : The Time Machine

" . . . ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities."

George Elliot : Daniel Deronda

"life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it" - Life of Pi

I looooove Wuthering Heights too.
You quoted some of my favorite ones.

I don't have good memory and am too lazy to look up my favorite quotes lol =p
but I'm LOVING this thread (:

"Dolly couldn't find her own arse with 2 hands and a map!" -- Applecore, War of the flowers, Tad Williams.

Excellent book. (: each and everyone of the characters were memorable, especially applecore. XD;;