Quote/Work Flashcards
“Later he saw that each weed was a singular knife.”
The Wayfarer by Stephen Crane
“It was unusual as a dream because it was full of smells and he never dreamt smells.”
Night face up by Julio Cortazar
“Truth loving Persians to not dwell upon / the trivial skirmish fought near marathon.”
The Persian Version by Robert Graves
“Because I don’t believe a person will ever set the world on fire / unless they are capable lire.”
Golly, How Truth Will Out by Ogden Nash
“And please believe that I mean everyone of these lines as I am writing them.”
Golly, How Truth Will Out by Ogden Nash
“Swept with confused alarms of struggle and fight, where ignorant armies clash by night.”
Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold
“Suppose one of them set free and for suddenly to stand up, turn his head, and walk with us lifted to the light; all these movements will be painful, and he would be to dazzle to make out the objects of shadows he had been used to see.”
Allegory of the Cave by Plato
“For you see there before you, friend Sancho Panza, some thirty or more lawless Giants it was him I mean to do battle.”
Don Quixote by Cervantes
“‘I? Pay?” laughed Zi’Dima, “I’d sooner stay here till I rot!”
The Jar by Pirandello
“Far from his folk a dead man lies that once was friends with me.”
The Isle of Portland by Housman
“Paul had told him he wouldn’t never have no more to do with Jim as long as he lived.”
Haircut by Lardner
“He’s such a card!”
Haircut by Lardner
“One is still making notes under the light.”
Auto Wreck by Shapiro
“For death in war is done by hands; suicide has cause and stillbirth, logic.”
Auto Wreck by Shapiro
“Why do sinners’ ways prosper?”
Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord by Hopkins
“His twisted leer was smoothed into a pleasant smile.”
The Greatest Man in the World by Thurber
“…seized the greatest man in the world by his left shoulder and the seat of his pants, and pushed him out the window.”
The Greatest Man in the World by Thurber
“It’s not true. I’ve never been fearless.”
Conversation with an American Writer by Yevtuskenko
“Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!”
Ozymandias by Shelley
“Perhaps sometimes He tires of being great in solitude. Without a hand to hold.”
The Preacher: Ruminates Behind the Sermon by Brooks
“They are above us all the time, the good gentlemen, Mozart and Bach…”
The Angels by Updike
“Lavishing measures of light down upon us…”
The Angels by Updike
“-and several of them, alas, are forged notes.”
On Heroes and Hero-Worship by Carlyle
“It is an eternal cornerstone, from which they can begin to build themselves up again.”
On Heroes and Hero-Worship by Carlyle
“He died in 1895. He is not dead.”
Frederick Douglas: 1817-1895 by Hughes
“Félicité did not pride herself on it in the least, not having the barest suspicion that she had done anything heroic.”
A Simple Heart by Flaubert
“…and a gigantic parrot hovering above her head.”
A Simple Heart by Flaubert
“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.”
The Road Not Taken by Frost
“right he set the jug down slowly at his feet with trembling care, knowing that most things break.”
Mr. Flood’s Party by Robinson
“I will fight for him as I would fight for my own father.”
Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
