Your favourite quotes - Page 2

Seph · 3rd July 2007, 10:21pm

Quote:

Originally Posted by purkle

ooh i love the raven

my fave is:

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Oscar Wilde

UncleDave · 3rd July 2007, 11:05pm

A lot of my favorite quotes arent from literature I'm afraid:

"Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on whats for dinner." - Benjamin Franklin, founding father of the most prosperous democracy in the world today.
"I envy you North Americans. You are fighting the most important fight of all. You live within the belly of the beast." - Che Guevara, warmonger and t-shirt adorner worldwide.
"I would rather die on my feet, than live on my knees." - Emiliano Zapata, Mexican revolutionary
"Nothing is true. Everything is permitted." - Hassan I Sabbah, founder of the Assassins.
"He that’s cheated twice by the same man is an accomplice with the cheater." - Thomas Fuller
"Nature prohibits nothing" - Marquis de Sade, famous French perv
"It is not enough that I succeed. Everyone else must fail." - Genghis Khan, Mongolian Emperor
"What luck for the rulers that men do not think." - Adolf Hitler, renowned genocidal lunatic and all-round bad egg.
"It is better to be feared than to be loved" - Niccolo Machiavelli
"There's only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." - PJ O'Rourke.
"Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps." - Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Literary wise, though, my favorite piece is from Paradise Lost:

The mind is its own place, and in itself
Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n
What matter where, if I be still the same
And what I should be, all but less than he
Whom thunder hath made greater? Here at least
We shall be free, Th'Almighty hath not built
Here for his envy, will not drive us hence:
Here we may reign secure, and in my choice
To reign is worth ambition though in Hell:
Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heav'n.

Cheers!

Poppy · 4th July 2007, 8:02am

"I'll just grab this, have a piss and be off."

The Mighty Boosh is fantastic. I'm afraid I've never been a quoter of literature, I chose to study English Language over Literature. I'm really not good at lit...

Dec · 4th July 2007, 8:10am

The Mighty Boosh is wacky pattered oot it's nut.

"Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody" Holden Caulfield
"Injustice anywhere, is a threat to justice everywhere" MLK

MichaelSCollins · 4th July 2007, 10:19am

"The Vogon ships hung in the air in the exact same way that bricks dont" Douglas Adams

Adele · 4th July 2007, 10:23am

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Originally Posted by Dec

The Mighty Boosh is wacky pattered oot it's nut.

"Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody" Holden Caulfield
"Injustice anywhere, is a threat to justice everywhere" MLK

I'd sex Holden Caulfield.

oh a quote?

"constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating"
- Joel - eternal sunshine of the spotless mind

PrincessGarnet · 4th July 2007, 3:26pm

a little sickly to quote on it's own, but fits in so well with the sweet story,

'As for me, I could leave the world with today in my eyes. This is our last Christmas together.' - CApote, Christmas memory

Oh and :Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. " - Mark Twain

He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man - dr johnson

*LesMTS* · 5th July 2007, 6:50pm

"The capacity to blunder slightly is the real marvel of DNA. Without this special attribute, we would still be anaerobic bacteria and there would be no music." -Lewis Thomas

Zooropa · 5th July 2007, 7:09pm

If you just learn a single trick, Scout, you'll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view, until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.

dalamarthedark · 5th July 2007, 7:12pm

"I was looking for a quiet place to die, someone suggested Brooklyn" - Paul Auster

Best start to a novel.

Semprini · 5th July 2007, 8:07pm

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Originally Posted by UncleDave

"Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on whats for dinner." - Benjamin Franklin, founding father of the most prosperous democracy in the world today.

Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.

Rhythm Junkie · 28th July 2007, 1:08pm

"It was the day my grandmother exploded"

Iain Banks

Plus1 · 10th August 2007, 9:54pm

Planet Earth is 4600 million years old.

We can liken Earth to a person of 46 years of age.
Nothing is known about the first years of this persons life...
Only at the age if 42 did the Earth begin to flower.

Dinosaurs and great reptiles did not appear until one year ago,
when the planet was 45. Mammals arrived eight months ago
and in the middle of last week man-like apes evolved into ape-like men,
and at the weekend, the last ice age enveloped the Earth.

Modern man has been around for 4 hours. During the last hour
man took to agriculture. The industrial revolution began a minute ago.
During those sixty seconds of biological time,
modern man has made a rubbish tip of Paradise.

Anonymous

wingwalker · 10th August 2007, 10:23pm

I grinned at her with my head on one side. She flushed. Her hot black eyes looked mad. 'I don't see what there is to be cagey about,' she snapped. 'And I don't like your manners'.

'I'm not crazy about yours,' I said. 'I didn't ask to see you. You sent for me. I don't mind you ritzing me or drinking your lunch out of a Scotch bottle. I don't mind you showing me your legs. They're very swell legs and it's a pleasure to make their acquaintance. I don't mind if you don't like my manners. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings. But don't waste your time trying to cross-examine me.'

Plus1 · 10th August 2007, 10:26pm

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Originally Posted by wingwalker

I grinned at her with my head on one side. She flushed. Her hot black eyes looked mad. 'I don't see what there is to be cagey about,' she snapped. 'And I don't like your manners'.

'I'm not crazy about yours,' I said. 'I didn't ask to see you. You sent for me. I don't mind you ritzing me or drinking your lunch out of a Scotch bottle. I don't mind you showing me your legs. They're very swell legs and it's a pleasure to make their acquaintance. I don't mind if you don't like my manners. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings. But don't waste your time trying to cross-examine me.'

That's Raymond Chandler yeah? Which book?