Classics for Beginners discussion

Have you encountered any funny or witty quotes when you are reading classics? Feel free to share here.

"My lord, this is a poor mad soul; she's been up and down town saying her eldest son looks just like you."

Shakespeare: Henry IV

"I don't want to belong to a club that takes people like me."

John Dunning: The Bookwoman's Last Fling

"Diplomacy is getting someone to do something without shooting them."



John Dunning: The Bookman series.

Good ones John!!

For you will allow that, excluding the reading and writing, which I never could learn, and the psalm reciting, which I never could endure, and to the dress, which is that of a mad beggar, and their fasts, which do not suit my appetite, I would have made every bit as good a monk as any. But I know not why, no one ever proposed the station to me.

the character Falstaff, from one of the Henry IV or V plays.