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burntcopper) wrote2009-09-24 04:39 pm
burntcopper) wrote2009-09-24 04:39 pm
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quotage
Pondering what the most quoted books/plays are. (no, we're not including speeches or declarations of independence-type things. Works of fiction.)
Shakespeare is a no-brainer. The amount of words he made up, not to mention phrases that entered the english language (sitting through hamlet your first time is an education).
Alice in Wonderland gets quoted a lot, normally consciously but in a lot of cases, it's become the stock phrase of description ('Down the rabbit hole', 'curiouser and curiouser').
Pratchett is quoted a lot in my circle of mates, but then we're all geeks.
Any others you can think of? Specifically ones that entered the common language.
Shakespeare is a no-brainer. The amount of words he made up, not to mention phrases that entered the english language (sitting through hamlet your first time is an education).
Alice in Wonderland gets quoted a lot, normally consciously but in a lot of cases, it's become the stock phrase of description ('Down the rabbit hole', 'curiouser and curiouser').
Pratchett is quoted a lot in my circle of mates, but then we're all geeks.
Any others you can think of? Specifically ones that entered the common language.
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Wordsworth
Fairy stories
A handbag...?
Noel Coward: Terribly flat, Norfolk...
The Rubaiat of Omar Kayam: A jug of wine, a loaf of bread and thou...
Douglas Adams: 42. Almost but not entirely unlike tea. I've got pains in the diodes all down my left side. Oh, no; not again...
Monty Python [does tv count?]
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