"Quotable" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... few of the many floating quotable passages universally known, without any trace of the authors, among general readers ...
— Notes & Queries, No. 14. Saturday, February 2, 1850 • Various
... occupied. But, then, how excellent a literary product, after all, the Journal is. And already we have found that it improves also on second reading. A book of "thoughts" should be a book that may be fairly dipped into, and yield good quotable sayings. Here are some ...
— Essays from 'The Guardian' • Walter Horatio Pater
... this in literature is irony; and irony appears in the fabliaux as it had hardly done since Lucian. Take, for instance, this opening of a piece, the rest of which is at least as irreverent, considerably less quotable, but ...
— The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory - (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) • George Saintsbury |
