Are there any quotes that stand out from works of fiction that you recall with delight long after you read the book? I thought I’d write a featuring my favorite quotes. These are all from books I read in high school and have re-read many times since then.
So what are some of your favorite quotes of all time? Mine are below with either a movie version of the quote or at the very least a scene from the same work as a movie or audio-book.
"That's not what justice is," the colonel jeered, and began pounding the table again with his big fat hand. "That's what Karl Marx is. I'll tell you what justice is. Justice is a knee in the gut from the floor on the chin at night sneaky with a knife brought up down on the magazine of a battleship sandbagged underhanded in the dark without a word of warning. Garroting. That's what justice is when we've all got to be tough enough and rough enough to fight Billy Petrolle. From the hip. Get it?"
Joseph Heller – Catch-22
He liked to listen to the silence, he said, if silence could be listed to, for, he went on, in that silence you could hear wildflower pollen sifting down the bee-fried air, by God, the bee-fried air! Listen! The waterfall of birdsong beyond those trees!”
Dandelion Wine, by Ray Bradbury
"M-O-O-N, that spells 'my main man'."
Stephen King – The Stand
TRUE! nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why WILL you say that I am mad?
Edgar Allen Poe – The Tell take Heart
Ah, but the strawberries! That's where I had them. They laughed at me and made jokes, but I proved beyond the shadow of a doubt, and with geometric logic, that a duplicate key to the wardroom icebox did exist! And I'd have produced that key if they hadn't pulled Caine out of action! I-I-I know now they were only trying to protect some fellow officer and!......
Caine Mutiny – Herman Wouk