* I have made up my quarrel with Lord Byron. […] No englishman alive can equal his lordship for an insult. He arrived in Venice about a week ago and we met at Florian’s.

Susanna Clarke - Jonathan Strange and Mr Norell

* Socrates : […] Clouds, great divinities
to idle men; who supply us with thought and argument,
and intelligence and humbug, and circumlocution, and
ability to hoax, and comprehension.

The Clouds, Aristophanes ; translated by William James Hickie.

« None who venture there ever return. That mountain is evil. »

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)

* « The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world. »

Willa Cather - One of ours

« Oh, oh, oh, let’s go fly a kite, up to the highest height! Let’s go fly a kite, and send it soaring! Up through the atmosphere, up where the air is clear! Oh, let’s go… fly a kite! »

Mr. Banks - Mary Poppins (1964)

* Chorus :
Now Romeo is belov’d, and loves again,
Alike bewitched by the charm of looks;
But to his foe suppos’d he must complain,
And she steal love’s sweet bait from fearful hooks.

William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act II, Prologue

* - What is that thing?
- A dog, I think… But it was dead this morning!
- It was dead this morning?
- Well we thought it was dead; it was hit by a truck!

Lilo & Stitch (Disney, 2002)

* « Marge is right, sugar is not only fattening but it’s also terribly, terribly addictive… Uh, is my carton of Pixie Sticks in? »

Dr. Hibbert - The Simpsons

* « Every time something good happens to me you say it’s some kind of madness. Or I’m drunk. Or I ate too much candy. Well I saw a real mermaid. And I wish for once my friends would have decency and kindness to believe me. »

Fry - Futurama