Wednesday 31 March 2021

Great lines from world-renowned books

Fans of the classics will love this collection curated by the Viewtale review team.

Do come back and draw the ferrets, they are the most lovely noble darlings in the world. - D. H. Lawrence, Women in Love

Once more it was borne in on him that marriage was not the safe anchorage he had been taught to think, but an uncharted voyage on the seas. - Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

Time is the River on which the leaves of our thoughts are carried into oblivion. - Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook

I told Terry I was leaving. She had been thinking about it all night and was resigned to it. Emotionlessly she kissed me in the vineyard and walked off down the row. We turned at a dozen paces, for love is a duel, and looked at each other for the last time. - Jack Kerouac, On the Road

Babies, babies, babies. Why did God make so many babies? But no, God didn’t make them. Stupid people made them. - Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

Her heart of compressed ash, which had resisted the most telling blows of daily reality without strain, fell apart with the first waves of nostalgia. - Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

Jim said that bees won’t sting idiots, but I didn’t believe that, because I tried them lots of times myself and they wouldn’t sting me. - Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

It had already occurred to him that books were stuff, and that life was stupid. - George Eliot, Middlemarch

I gave my whole heart up, for him to hold. - Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales

Here let dead poetry rise once more to life. - Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy

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