“Why, may not that be the skull of a lawyer? Where be his quiddities now, his quillities, his cases, his tenures, and his tricks? Why does he suffer this mad knave now to knock him about the sconce with a dirty shovel, and will not tell him of his action of battery?" - Hamlet by William Shakespeare

“He saw nothing and heard nothing but he could feel his heart pounding and then he heard the clack on stone and the leaping, dropping clicks of a small rock falling.” - For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway

"The party preserved a dignified homogeneity, and assumed to itself the function of representing the staid nobility of the countryside—East Egg condescending to West Egg, and carefully on guard against its spectroscopic gayety." - The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

In Oedipus Rex, Oedipus kills his own father without realizing that the man is actually his father. This act brings on a plague and Oedipus swears that he will murder the man responsible, not knowing that he himself is responsible.

“The radiators put out lots of heat, too much, in fact, and old-fashioned sounds and smells came with it, exhalations of the matter that composes our own mortality, and reminiscent of the intimate gases we all diffuse.” - More Die of Heartbreak by Saul Bellow

“The wage system has made people believe that what a man needs is work. This, of course, is absurd. What he needs is the goods produced by work, and the less work involved in making a given amount of goods, the better … But owing to our economic system …where a better system would produce only an increase of wages or a diminution in the hours of work without any corresponding diminution of wages.” - Political Ideals by Bertrand Russell

“Our watch, sir, have indeed comprehended two auspicious persons.” - Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare

“But thy eternal summer shall not fade …” - Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day by William Shakespeare

"I will bestow him, and will answer well

The death I gave him. So, again, good night.

I must be cruel, only to be kind:

Thus bad begins and worse remains behind.

One word more, good lady." - Hamlet by William Shakespeare

VLADIMIR: “Consult his family…”

ESTRAGON: (anxious) “And we?”

ESTRAGON: “And why would he shout?”

VLADIMIR: “At his horse. Silence.”

ESTRAGON: (violently) “I’m hungry!”

VLADIMIR: “Do you want a carrot…”

VLADIMIR: “I might have some turnips…”

VLADIMIR: “Oh pardon! I could have sworn it was a carrot…”

ESTRAGON: (Chewing) “I asked you a question.”

VLADIMIR: “Ah.”

ESTRAGON: “Did you reply?”

VLADIMIR: “How’s the carrot?”

ESTRAGON: “It’s a carrot.” - Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett

“I think it is agreed by all parties, that this prodigious number of children in the arms, or on the backs, or at the heels of their mothers … As I have been informed by a principal gentleman in the county of Cavan, who protested to me, that he never knew above one or two instances under the age of six, even in a part of the kingdom so renowned for the quickest proficiency in that art.” - A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift