Favorite Quotes

[Ebantu the Kararehe]

"Now comes the dramatic moment of fate, Watson, when you hear a step upon the stair that is walking into your life, and you know not whether for good or ill. Come in!" -Sherlock Holmes, The Hound of the Baskervilles (This may not be exactly perfect because I do not have the book with me, but you get the gist of it.)

[Tinarandel]

"The first rule of a ninja is to do no harm. Unless you mean to do harm. Then do lots of harm!" ~Master Splinter, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012).

[HeadInAnotherGalaxy]

I fell from the sky
So don't ask me why I'm feeling so down
Attacked, shot down and wrecked
There's no turning back to find my way home

-Ze choruz from Zkyfall, A nev zong by a certain German pover metal band Ah loike

[Tungro]

"We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words." - Anna Sewell

[Booklover]

"Sixty-seven: putting an arrow in a villain during their monologue is a perfectly acceptable method of victory. Heroes believing otherwise do not get to retire."
– Two Hundred Heroic Axioms, unknown author

From A Practical Guide to Evil

(There are a lot of amazing quotes from PGTE, and this one isn't even among the best, to be honest.)

[clunylooney]

I just find this very funny:



"He expects us to kill him," Palomides said to Dinadan.
"Some people are so demanding," Dinadan replied. "Considering we've only just met, I mean."
- The Ballad of Sir Dinadan

[Hickory]

"It is said that the human mind has a greater capacity for remembering the pleasant than the unpleasant. But today was a day that will live in memory and in grief. Only history can write the importance of this day: Were these dark days the harbingers of even blacker ones to come, or like the black before the dawn shall they lead to some still as yet indiscernible sunrise of understanding among men, that violent words, no matter what their origin or motivation, can lead only to violent deeds? This is the larger question that will be answered, in part, in the manner that a shaken civilization seeks the answers to the immediate question: Who, and most importantly what, was Lee Harvey Oswald? The world's doubts must be put to rest. Tonight there will be few Americans who will go to bed without carrying with them the sense that somehow they have failed. If in the search of our conscience we find a new dedication to the American concepts that brought no political, sectional, religious or racial divisions, then maybe it may yet be possible to say that John Fitzgerald Kennedy did not die in vain. That's the way it is, Monday, November 25, 1963. This is Walter Cronkite, good night."

[Tungro]

I will forever know Walter Cronkite as cartoon Benjamin Franklin

[Tinarandel]

"My mind," he [Sherlock] said, "rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. I can dispense then with artificial stimulants. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation. That is why I have chosen my own particular profession, or rather created it, for I am the only one in the world."

~ Sherlock Holmes, The Sign of Four, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

[Rillbrook the Wanderer]

"The answer to this riddle has a hole in the middle,
And some have been known to fall in it.
In tennis it's nothing, but it can be received,
And sometimes a person may win it.
Though not seen or heard it may be perceived,
Like princes or bees it's in clover.
The answer to this riddle has a hole in the middle,
And without it one cannot start over."
~ Mysterious Benedict Society and The Prisoner's Dilemma, by Trenton Lee Stewart

[Booklover]

Spoiler

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"In conclusion, the court recognizes the desertion of the sentient tiger army raised by Dread Emperor Sorcerous as sufficient precedent to rule that tapirs can, in fact, commit treason but that lack of sentience bars them from laying claim to the Tower by right of usurpation."

"When the abyss stares back, wave. Offer refreshments. Being impolite to the abyss is never a good idea."

One hundred and eighty-seven: should one of your trusted companions be taken hostage at knife-point, check for the following features – cliff, moat, or any kind of sharp drop. Should one be nearby, you may assume the situation will solve itself momentarily."
– "Two Hundred Heroic Axioms", author unknown

All from A Practical Guide to Evil.

[Tungro]

"He who believes that new benefits will cause great personages to forget old injuries is deceived. Therefor, the duke erred in his choice, and it was the cause of his ultimate ruin"

[Flib Bigboat]

It sounded as though Glew's feelings had been hurt.
"You make it sound so- so raw!"
"Great Belin," shouted Fflewddur, "let me get my hands on your scrawny neck and I'll make you sound raw!"
There was another silence.
"Please," said Glew faintly, "try to look at it from my side."
"Gladly," said Fflewddur. "Just push away that rock."

[Thanquol]

Parvos Granum: "'My name'. Hmm... I have watched you. Monuments to narcissism. Demanding others sweat in your stead. Gorging upon that upon which you have not earned. Watched... as you claimed for yourself my teachings of self-reliance, perverting them into a flaccid philosophy of sloth. Of... Idleness. Is that you, my son?"

Nef Anyo: "No, that must be a different son."

[Flib Bigboat]

They heard an automobile behind them and turned out to let it go by. It came along rattling and bumping, for it was not a very good automobile, and as it passed them, a man with a big black mustache leaned out and stared in surprise.
"Hey, sonny," he said to the boy who was driving, "wait a minute. Look at them animals. By gum, I never see anything like that before!" ~Freddy goes to Florida