Quotation Station

[Former_Member]

A place to deposit your favorite book quotations or teasers from the book you're currently reading.

I was reading Alice's Adventures in Wonderland last night so I'll just say, "We're all mad here."

[UneekDollDesigns]

I agree with that quote, LOL!

A quote from my current reading book...(Sounds like modern times to me)

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of foolishness...we were all going direct to Heaven,we were all going direct the other way..."

From Dickens A Tale of Two Cities

[ClassicallyRomantic]

I quite like the movies Bright Star and Pride and Prejudice so anything from those I'd be utterly content with!

[Former_Member]

I just ran across this quote in Middlemarch and it made me chuckle so I wrote it down.

"And certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we are so fond of it."

[Former_Member]

"Fiddle-dee-dee!!"

[Former_Member]

"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."

— Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey)

:)

[Former_Member]

Here's one of my favorite quotes from a book I just finished.

"Humor is what happens when we're told the truth quicker and more directly than we're used to."
George Saunders (The Braindead Megaphone)

[Former_Member]

This was a fav of many of the people in one of my writing classes.

"I prefer not to."
--Bartleby the scrivener

[Former_Member]

"That is another of your odd notions." said the Prefect, who had a fashion of calling everything "odd" that was beyond his comprehension, and thus lived amid an absolute legion of "oddities."

-The Purloined Letter, Edgar Allan Poe

[Former_Member]

"Why is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?"

-The Dubliners by James Joyce

[Former_Member]

"Why, she asked, pressing her chin on James's head, should they grow up so fast? Why should they go to school? She would have liked always to have had a baby. She was happiest carrying one in her arms. Then people might say she was tyrannical, domineering, masterful, if they chose; she did not mind. And, touching his hair with her lips, she thought, he will never be so happy again... it was true. They were happier now than they would ever be again."
-from "To the Lighthouse" by Virginia Woolf

Sorry it's so long, but this is one of my absolute favorite snippets from a literary work :)

[Former_Member]

"This planet has — or rather had — a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much all of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy."

And another:

"Many were increasingly of the opinion that they'd all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans."

-Douglas Adams, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. Haha, I just love that his writing/attitude/hilarity

[Former_Member]

bookgeekery I also adore Douglas Adams!

"It was a pleasure to burn"
--Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury

(it has inspired a shirt I have yet to post, now I'm thinking of doing something Douglas Adams as well!)

[Former_Member]

Ya know, I was wondering about that...because I've thought about something adams-themed, but what are the copyright restrictions for say, quoting someone like douglas adams in your art? I know with Jane Austen it's allowed, because the rule is you have to be dead 100 yrs for your work to be in public domain... but can someone sue you for using, say, mr. adams's writing in something, even if you give him credit for it? 0.o Totally lost. lol

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May I cheat and quote a poem?

"To see a World in a Grain of Sand", by William Blake

"To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour."

That always moves me. :)

[Former_Member]

I've been using the same rule I've always used for writing papers during my graduate studies and give the original author credit, I also only use small snipets rather than anything longer than a sentence.

[Former_Member]

Fantastic thread idea! A few of my favorites:

Oh, the cleverness of me! - Peter Pan
It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight. - Lolita
You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style. - Lolita
Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n. - Paradise Lost
Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind. - Comus
Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I’d have the facts. - To Kill a Mockingbird
Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty. - Mark Twain (from his journals, I believe)