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book quotes that give the title away

  • 13-06-2019 6:48pm
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,314 ✭✭✭✭


    Please, sir. I want some more


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    It was the best of times; it was the worst of times.

    Somewhere in la Mancha, in a place whose name I do not care to remember


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,003 ✭✭✭Hammer89


    This is commonly referred to as the Wheelbarrow.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,794 ✭✭✭Squall Leonhart


    One ring to rule them all


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,121 ✭✭✭amcalester


    Call me Ishmael.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    STATELY, PLUMP BUCK MULLIGAN CAME FROM THE STAIRHEAD, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,275 ✭✭✭Your Face


    It was a dark and stormy night.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    "Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird."


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,235 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    Once upon a time...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    Hindus, in their capacity for love, are indeed hairless Christians


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,161 ✭✭✭frag420


    Amen


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  • Posts: 8,856 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 60 ✭✭BrenMar


    Nelly, I am Heathcliff.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,995 ✭✭✭Ipso


    Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ireland. It was falling softly upon the Bog of Allen and, further westwards, softly falling into the dark mutinous Shannon waves. It was falling too upon every part of the lonely churchyard where Michael Furey lay buried. It lay thickly drifted on the crooked crosses and headstones, on the spears of the little gate, on the barren thorns. His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,073 ✭✭✭Rubberlegs


    We all float down here.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    "I do not believe in the three-speed gear at all", the Sergeant was saying, "it is a new-fangled instrument"


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,995 ✭✭✭Ipso


    Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow. They smelled of moss in your hand. Polished and muscular and torsional. On their backs were vermiculate patterns that were maps of the world in its becoming. Maps and mazes. Of a thing which could not be put back. Not be made right again. In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery."


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,063 ✭✭✭✭TheValeyard


    For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.

    All eyes on Kursk. Slava Ukraini.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,306 ✭✭✭✭banie01


    I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,998 ✭✭✭✭Deja Boo


    I do not like them in a house.
    I do not like them with a mouse.
    I do not like them here or there.
    I do not like them anywhere.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,073 ✭✭✭Rubberlegs


    Everybody was feeling happy now. The sun was shining brightly out of a soft blue sky and the day was calm. The giant peach, with the sunlight glinting on it's side, was like a massive golden ball sailing upon a silver sea.


  • Posts: 5,917 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I couldn't help it, boss


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,439 ✭✭✭✭Purple Mountain


    'Tis

    To thine own self be true



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,256 ✭✭✭metaoblivia


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

    "They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God."

    "Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around - nobody big, I mean - except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff - I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them."


  • Posts: 21,679 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    You become. It takes a long time. That’s why it doesn’t happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get all loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don’t matter at all, because once you are Real you can’t be ugly, except to people who don’t understand.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,998 ✭✭✭✭Deja Boo


    There will be no foolish wand-waving or silly incantations in this class.


  • Posts: 5,311 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.


  • Posts: 5,917 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    It doesn't make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,998 ✭✭✭✭Deja Boo


    The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,955 ✭✭✭Conall Cernach


    "Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia."

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

    "Do you know what I am going to tell you, he said with his wry mouth, a pint of plain is your only man."


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    Don’t strike me. I killed my poor father, Tuesday was a week, for doing the like of that.


  • Posts: 5,917 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    It is very queer that the unhappiness of the world is so often brought on by small men


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,998 ✭✭✭✭Deja Boo


    The past is a foreign country, they do things differently there.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,181 ✭✭✭Immortal Starlight


    I have crossed oceans of time to find you.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,256 ✭✭✭metaoblivia


    Out, damned spot! Out, I say!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,073 ✭✭✭Rubberlegs


    He is coming, and I am here

    I love you, always. Time is nothing.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,438 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    A screaming comes across the sky. It has happened before, but there is nothing to compare it to now.

    “It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish nation” - Thomas Davis



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,825 ✭✭✭Relikk


    What's it going to be then, eh? There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie and Dim, Dim being really dim, and we sat in the Korova Milkbar making up our rassoodocks what to do with the evening, a flip dark chill winter bastard though dry.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,736 ✭✭✭Irish Guitarist


    "ISBN 10 0241320852"

    "The End"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,423 ✭✭✭✭Outlaw Pete


    He’s said such loving things today … But how long will he want to do this without wanting to beat the crap out of me.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 991 ✭✭✭TuringBot47


    In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

    Edit: Posted already...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,073 ✭✭✭Rubberlegs


    Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,995 ✭✭✭Ipso


    Ann has a ball.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,314 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Barry has jam


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,592 ✭✭✭✭Mam of 4


    Socks are Dobbys favourite , favourite clothes sir !


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,073 ✭✭✭Rubberlegs


    Seanbhean is ea mise anois, a bhfuil cos lei san uaigh is an chos eile ar a bruach.


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