quotage

[burntcopper]

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.

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[clanwilliam.livejournal.com]

Another one is Stella Gibbons, Cold Comfort Farm: "Something nasty in the woodshed". Someone else suggested Douglas Adams - I actually came across the phrase through Adams (it was before I'd read Gibbons).