Book Quote Game

[elf_lady_9]

Hi everyone! I was a bit bored, so i decided to start a thread of my own. There's a movie quote game and a name the author game, but i've never seen a book quote game, so here goes. just guess the book that the quote comes from, and if you get it right, then you get to post a quote. i'll start out w/ a fairly easy one(especially if you read the What are YOU currently reading thread, and know what book i'm currently reading )

"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife."

 

[SiobhanClancy]

Pride and Prejudice



"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen."

 

[Captivated]

1984 ; George Orwell


"To die will be an awfully big adventure"

 

[Jenka]

"Peter Pan" J.M Berry

"To despair is to turn one's back on God."

 

[Steadfast7]

Anne of Green Gables

"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."

 

[elf_lady_9]

A Tale of Two Cities

"I keep a diary in order to write down all the wonderful secrets of my life. If I didn't write them down, i should probably forget all about them."

 

[SiobhanClancy]

The Importance of Being Earnest~Oscar Wilde




"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."

 

[MarvinAndroid42]

Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald


"Everything seemed so futile and insignificant in comparison with the stern and solemn train of thought that weakness from loss of blood, suffering, and the nearness of death aroused in him. "

 

[Dee235]

War and Peace - Tolstoy

The trouble about argument is that it moves the whole struggle onto the Enemy's own ground.

 

[Captivated]

War & Peace ; Leo Tolstoy

"...he shall never know how I love him: and that, not because he's handsome, Nelly, but because he is more
myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same..."

 

[Captivated]

Simultaneous posting! So I'll answer yours, The Screwtape Letters by C S Lewis, and let my quote stand.

 

[Steadfast7]

Wuthering Heights--Emily Bronte

"When beholding the tranquil beauty and brilliancy of the ocean's skin, one forgets the tiger heart that pants beneath it; and would not willingly remember that this velvet paw but conceals a remorseless fang."

 

[Dee235]

Moby Dick - Herman Melville

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.

 

[Captivated]

A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens

"The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast."

 

[Neve]

“This is nothing,” cried she; “I was only going to say that heaven did not seem to be my home; and I broke my heart with weeping to come back to earth; and the angels were so angry that they flung me out, into the middle of the heath on the top of Wuthering Heights; where I woke sobbing for joy. That will do to explain my secret, as well as the other. I’ve no more business to marry Edgar Linton than I have to be in heaven; and if the wicked man in there had not brought Heathcliff so low I shouldn’t have thought of it. It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff, now; so he shall never know how I love him; and that, not because he’s handsome, Nelly, but because he’s more myself than I. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same, and Linton’s is as different as a moonbeam from lightening, or frost from fire.”

- Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

 

[Dee235]

Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Nothing will come of nothing: speak again.

 

[Abiel]

King Lear

In my hole in the basement there are exactly 1,369 lights. I've wired the entire ceiling, every inch of it. And not with flourescent bulbs, but with the older, more-expensive-to-operate kind, the filament type. An act of sabotage, you know. I've already begun to wire the wall. A junk man I know, a man of vision, has supplied me with wire and sockets. Nothing, storm or flood, must get in the way of our need for light and ever more brighter light. The truth is the light and light is the truth.

 

[Maul]

"But. but.. My Lord! He promised us a handsome reward! " Separtist leader in the book
"What? You don't think I'm handsome? " Darth_Vader before killing the leader.

 

[elf_lady_9]

"But. but.. My Lord! He promised us a handsome reward! " Separtist leader in the book
"What? You don't think I'm handsome? " Darth_Vader before killing the leader.

u have to guess the previous quote before you can post your own. besides, is that even from an actual book?

In my hole in the basement there are exactly 1,369 lights. I've wired the entire ceiling, every inch of it. And not with flourescent bulbs, but with the older, more-expensive-to-operate kind, the filament type. An act of sabotage, you know. I've already begun to wire the wall. A junk man I know, a man of vision, has supplied me with wire and sockets. Nothing, storm or flood, must get in the way of our need for light and ever more brighter light. The truth is the light and light is the truth.

Invisible Man

"She never told her love, but let concealment, like a worm in the bud, feed upon her damask cheek. She pined in thought; and with a green and yellow melancholy, She sat like Patience on a monument. Was not this love indeed? We men may say more, swear more, but our shows are more than will; for still we prove much in our vows, but little in our love."

 

[Maul]

Oh In that case I'l be using google a lot Yes, it is. Episode III the Book