Good quotes from either famous books or authors anyone know?

Question

Good quotes from either famous books or authors anyone know?

Answer 1

"All we need is a little bit of momentum to break down these walls that we've built around ourselves."

Answer 2

"I want to see how bad things can get."  - Bret Easton Ellis, Less Than Zero

"There is no god and we are his prophets." - Cormac McCarthy, The Road

"In any war story, but especially a true one, it’s difficult to separate what happened from what seemed to happen." - Tim O'Brien, "How To Tell a True War Story," The Things They Carried

"This is your life and it's ending one minute at a time."  - Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

"A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved." - Kurt Vonnegut, Sirens of Titan

"Life is for farting around, don't let anyone tell you differently."  - Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night or Timequake (I can't remember which, I know it's said as the character goes to get a stamp.)

Answer 3

"There once was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it." - The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen: "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."

From A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way--in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only."

The last sentence of A Tale of Two Cities is also very famous: "It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known."

"Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul." - Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

"Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show." - David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (I particularly like the title of the chapter - "I Am Born")

"Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner." - Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham

"He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it." - Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham

"Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed." - Sir Winston Churchill

"Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One." - Benjamin Franklin

"Biography lends to death a new terror." - Oscar Wilde

"Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing." - Oscar Wilde

"I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation." - George Bernard Shaw

"Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint." - Mark Twain