Favourite quotes.

[XYZ123]

What's your favourite or most rememberable quote from a novel? (I'll also open this up to films because it will inevitably go that way)

 

[XYZ123]

“There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

 

[XYZ123]

“Everything in life that’s any fun, as somebody wisely observed, is either immoral, illegal or fattening.”
― P.G. Wodehouse

 

[Philzo-93]

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens is. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightening about shrinking so that other people may feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine as children do. It's not just in some of us it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine. Our presence automatically liberates others."

 

[XYZ123]

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens is. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightening about shrinking so that other people may feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine as children do. It's not just in some of us it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine. Our presence automatically liberates others."

Where's that from?

 

[XYZ123]

“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. - rumoured to have been said by Voltaire but more likely stated by Evelyn Beatrice Hall. Either way if Voltaire didn't say it he should well have done so.

 

[mikeyjh]

"The bank - the monster has to have profits all the time. It can't wait. It'll die. No, taxes go on. When the monster stops growing, it dies. It can't stay one size." Steinbeck writing about banks, capitalism and the hurt they do to the poor, Grapes of Wrath - 1939!! Always struck me as incredible forsight....

 

[Gwylan]

Love the closing lines of Middlemarch

" ... for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.”

 

[See-Goals]

We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.

The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde

 

[Goldstone1976]

"There really is an answer?"
"Yes; there really is an answer. But I don't think you're going to like it."

 

[Codner's Crackpipe]

"The Edge...there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."

Hunter S Thompson

 

[Jam The Man]

Jean Cocteau — 'We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like? '

 

[tinycowboy]

My favourite phrase is "The mother of cretins is always pregnant". Not sure if it's ever appeared in a book or film though. "Canned food is a perversion,' Ignatius said. 'I suspect that it is ultimately very damaging to the soul." One of hundreds of quotes you could pull out of A Confederacy of Dunces.

 

[dougdeep]

The ships hung in the sky, in much the same way as bricks don't.

 

[thisistips]

Hale knew, before he had been in Brighton three hours, that they meant to murder him

Opening line of Brighton rock

 

[Norman Potting]

"What a volley, it's the stuff of dreams, it's the stuff of Champions!"

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

My favourite quote ever was the response Freddie Mercury gave to his assistant who questioned the spiralling costs of his birthday party in Ibiza when he had a cake flown in from Italy - "Budget?, oh do **** off" was the camp dismissal.

 

[Simster]

Jean Cocteau — 'We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like? '

That is brilliant.

 

[Mowgli37]

"The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who in the name of charity and good will shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know that my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee."

Bang bang muthaf*cker

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

"There's a fire sale on at Southampton! There's a fire sale on at Southampton!"
(The Unofficial Southampton FC Yearbook 2014/15)