Please post some quotes by prominent literary figures here! Include the name of the person.



"The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!" - Oscar Wilde

"Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." ~George Bernard Shaw

"Ay, there's the rub." - William Shakespeare

Charles Dickens - A tale of two cities

"Fish, I love you and respect you very much. But I will kill you dead before this day ends" - Ernest Hemingway, Old Man and the Sea

aka 'monologue with a fish'.

"Love has no age, no limit; and no death." , John Galsworthy.

"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."
- Douglas Adams

One of my favourites :

"What must be shall be." , William Shakespeare.

Round and round in circles
Completing the charm.

T. S. Eliot

"God made Truth with many doors to welcome every believer who knocks on them." , Khalil Gibran.

"Friendship is constant in all other things save in the office and affairs of love..."
~ William Shakespeare in Much Ado About Nothing ~

"Despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not."
-J. R. R. Tolkien in The Fellowship of the Ring

This post has been edited by temptation1314: Jan 24 2009, 02:21 PM

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
-Warren Buffett-

i find it so damn true.

"Strong reasons makes strong actions." , William Shakespeare.

In memory of Jon Updike

'Time is our element, not a mistaken invader.'

I like this quote by einstein.

'The sign of a cluttered desk shows a messy mind but then an empty desk shows an empty mind?"

hihi,the quote I tell my mom every time she asks me to clean up.

may not get the quote totally right but then that's probably excused by this quote.

"Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely."
- Hesketh Pearson

"There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd." , William Shakespere.

"Realize deeply that the present of the moment is all you ever have." , Echart Tolle.

"Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.."
"To the well organized mind, death is but the next great adventure."
"It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."
- Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore.

"He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument." , William Shakespeare.