interesting quotes

[horace w]

i would be interested to hear your favorite quotes from books or films,or anywhere really.

[mountainboo]

'sleep, those little slices of death, how I loathe them' Edgar Allen Poe.

[mountainboo]

Or how about 'I ate her liver with some farver beans and a nice chianti, ffffff' Hannibal Lector, Silence of the Lambs

[horace w]

thanx u guys keep em coming.

[andy-hughes]

Pedant that I am mountaiboo, I have to confirm that it was 'his' liver.

My fave quote comes from the film Angel Heart in which Robert De Nero, playing Lucifer in human form advises that ".... there is just enough religion in the world to make men hate each other, but not quite enough to make men love each other ..." which kinda sums it up really.

I also like a description to deride the notion of embelishing something or someone - "You can call an ass a horse, but it doesn't shorten its ears."

[jenky]

1) "The Tigers of Wrath are Wiser than the Horses of Instruction" - William Blake.
2) "This one goes to 11" - Nigel Tufnel

[mccfluff]

smoke me a kipper i'll be back for breakfast (red dwarf)

[mccfluff]

part of an email i have just rec

'the path of my life is strewn with cowpats from the devils satanic herd'

fairly sure thats from blackadder

[warpig1]

"Noughts had
all's spent
where our desire is got without content.
'Tis safer to be that which we destroy
than by destruction
dwell on doubtful joy."

Lady M*cbeth

Think it applies to a lot of things in life.

[horace w]

warpig1 any chance youre a black sabbath fan?

[warpig1]

horace w, no actually not a black sabbath fan but it is the only quote I remember from O level English Lit and even at the time I thought it could be applied to life!!!

[China Doll]

My sister gave me one recently that she read in a book which she thought suited me perfectly. I don't know what she was reading but the quote is....

'Don't let your tongue cut your throat.'

I really rather like it now.

[mechanised69]

"oh no he's got an arm off!" from shaun of the dead. love that film.

[partyanimal]

Mccfluff, yes it is from Blackadder, as is this one

I have a plan so cunning, you could stick a tail on it and call it a Weasel
.............and this.............

Mrs Miggins, if you , I , and Baldrick were the last three people on Earth,
I'd be trying to start a family with Baldrick.

[makemesmile]

My favourite is from Dorothy Parker (wit, writer etc). She'd just gotten married and was away on honeymoon. Her editor was chasing her for a piece for a magazine, and obviously she had other fish to fry. So she sent him a post card saying....

"Too f*ucking busy and vice versa"

[shammydodger]

I must confess a particular regard for this one, from the Oscar Wilde sketch by the Python team:

(G.B.Shaw): "Your Majesty is like a stream of bat's p1$$."

(Prince of Wales): "Whaat!!"

"I merely meant, Your Majesty, that you shine out like a shaft of gold, whilst all around is dark."

[druiaghtagh]

Life of Brian, 'he's not the Messiah, hes a very naughty boy !

[bricro]

"You are a shining wit " Spooner

[kelbillug]

From the movie "Clue"....

Mrs. White: "Yes, I did it. I killed Yvette. I hated her so... much... it... it... the... it... the... fee... flames... flames... on the side of my face... heaving... breathless... heaving breaths... "

[elliot69]

" I'll go hunt the badger by owl-light: 'Tis a deed of darkness."

"whether we fall by ambition, blood or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust"

- Ferdinand in the Duchess Of Malfi

[curiosity]

There's 2 good one's I think that arn't usually mentioned in the usual lists of powerful texts, but I feel are poingiant in the films. In Educating Rita "There must be better songs to sing than this" and in Parenthood when Steve Martin sums up "All my life is have to". Maybe I was feeling overwhelmed by juggling life at the time I watched these! But they still stick with me as the central lines in the films.