Monday, February 26, 2007

Stupendous Quotes Quiz of the Week

Remember, how I told you all forever ago that Jami & I were starting a new blog project? Well, here it is! Every week, we'll give you 10 quotations, which you will match with the story & author that they come from. Each quote is worth 10 points... 5 points for telling us the correct author, 5 points for telling us the correct title. If you are the person with the highest score, or the first person to reach 100 points, you will win! All answers must be in by 10AM Eastern time Wednesday.

So, lets get started:

#1 "...he's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same, and Linton's is as different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire."

#2 "he did not perceive that my smile now was at the thought of his immoliation" (hint: I talked about this quote in one of my old blog posts)

#3 "Life is real! Haven't I lived just now? My life has not yet died with that old woman! The Kingdom of Heaven to her-and now enough, madam, leave me in peace!"

#4 "That is one good thing about this world. . .there are always sure to be more springs."

#5 "I have only one thing to say to you, sir … if you keep on drinking rum, the world will soon be quit of a very dirty scoundrel!"

#6 “How can I make him understand that he did not create me? He makes the same mistake as others when they look at a feeble-minded person and laugh because they don’t understand there are human feelings involved. He doesn’t realize that I was a person before I came here.”

#7 "You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of underdone potato. There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!"

#8 "Grendel’s mother,monstrous hell-bride, brooded on her wrongs. She had been forced down into fearful waters, he cold depths, after Cain had killed .his father’s son, felled his own brother with a sword."

# 9 "This above all,--to thine own self be true; and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man."

#10 "Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace."

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

We're supposed to know these with no clues? None? not even one? Geesh - you must really hang out with a literary crowd!

Unknown said...

i must be retarded. i can't get even one.

Princess Jami said...

No, you're not retarded. Sometimes these things are weird without context. :-)

Unknown said...

well, let's see. here're the ones i recognize:
1 - wuthering heights, emily bronte
2 - the cask of amontillado, poe (only got this because of your clue, though i love poe...)
3 - crime and punishment, fyodor dosteyevsky (or however you spell it)
7 - dickens' a christmas carol
8 - grendel, john gardner
9 - hamlet, jackie collins--oops i mean william shakespeare

i was able to find the rest by googling them! hope you hang with an ethical crowd, too...

Anonymous said...

Yikes!! I better study up on literature. #10 sounds familiar but I just cannot place.

May I cheat and surf the web for answers???? *snort*

Anonymous said...

The only ones I know are #2 which is Poe, The cask of Amontidillo and #9 which is Shakespeare but not sure which story.

Anonymous said...

#7 - Scrooge in "A Christmas Carol"

and I'm guessing

#9 - Hamlet?