Finnegans wake Quote by James Joyce

“Now that he had his way, and all went well, and he had work to do after his heart, and had honour in it,…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“The names of the dwarves in The Hobbit were taken from verses of a very ancient Norse poem called Voluspà.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“I wanted to show that the fables and mythic tales which the ancients have handed down to us and in which painters and sculptors…

— Hugo von Hofmannsthal

“Not many people can imagine a president of the Parlement of Aix—it is a species of beast of which people have often spoken without…

— Marquis de Sade

“The mightiest kings have had their minions; Great Alexander loved Hephaestion, The conquering Hercules for Hylas wept; And for Patroclus, stern Achilles drooped. And…

— Christopher Marlowe

“Menestheus, the son of Peteus, grandson of Orneus, and the great-grandson to Erechtheus, the first man that is recorded to have affected popularity and…

— Plutarch

“Life is short, but art is long. Sophocles is dead, but Oedipus lives on…Each of us when we read a great piece of literature…

— James W. Sire

“His great bulk swaying to and fro as he threw his weight first upon one side and then upon the other, Tantor the elephant…

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

“Seeking more information, I walked through the market listening to the gossip and discovered that our new general, the man sent to quell the…

— M.C. Scott

“They passed the Gates of Thermopylae the following day and Alexander stopped to visit the tombs of the Spartan soldiers who had fallen one…

— Valerio Massimo Manfredi

“Much of my unassisted self, and more by the help of Biddy than of Mr. Wopsle's great-aunt, I struggled through the alphabet as if…

— Charles Dickens

“It was as if the boy had already divined what his senses and intellect had not encompassed yet: that doomed wilderness whose edges were…

— William Faulkner