| Quotation/Excerpt | Book/Play/Poem | Author |
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| 'Spare the rod and spile the child, as the good book says.' | |
| 'Remember, comrades, your resolution must never falter. No argument must lead you astray.' | |
| 'If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood was like...' | |
| 'I am a lone lorn creetur and everythink goes contrairy with me.' | |
| 'Fortunately, just when things were blackest, the war broke out.' | |
| 'When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived it all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. ' | |
| 'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness...' | |
| 'We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything.' | |
| 'A pair of star-crossed lovers.' | |
| 'Sing, goddess, of Achilles' ruinous anger | Which brought ten thousand pains to the Achaeans, | And cast the souls of many stalwart heroes | To Hades, and their bodies to the dogs | |
| | Quotation/Excerpt | Book/Play/Poem | Author |
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| 'It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.' | |
| 'It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.' | |
| 'When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home.' | |
| 'Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?' | |
| 'There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions.' | |
| 'The past was dead, the future was unimaginable.' | |
| •'I bent over him, and tried to find any sign of life, but in vain.' | |
| 'I ain't got no people. I seen the guys that go around on the ranches alone. That ain't no good. They don't have no fun. After a long time they get mean. They get wantin' to fight | |
| 'Fair is foul, and foul is fair.' | |
| 'If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake. That will be punishment - as well as the prison.' | |
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