Literary quotes (and mis-quotes)
Any examples that you actually use in your everyday conversations?
When you're announcing your intention to leave:
I shall arise and go now, to the Lake Isle of Innisfree.
When you want to tell someone not to hesitate to contact you if they need help:
Go then, my dear Watson. And if you value my humble counsel at so extravagant a rate as twopence a word, it awaits your disposal at the end of the continental wire, at any time of the day or night.
When someone has just left, with hostility:
Thus departed Hiawatha;
Hiawatha the Beloved;
To the purple mists of evening;
To the golden glow of sunset;
To the Land of the Hereafter.
When you want to remind someone that England did win the WC:
The old men forget, and all shall be forgot;
But we remember with advantages the feats they did that day.
And one that speaks for itself:
I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
If used too often in your conversations (and in your posts), they become hackneyed and irritating. But used occasionally, they can be amusing (hopefully) and can defuse tension.
Any examples that you actually use in your everyday conversations?
When you're announcing your intention to leave:
I shall arise and go now, to the Lake Isle of Innisfree.
When you want to tell someone not to hesitate to contact you if they need help:
Go then, my dear Watson. And if you value my humble counsel at so extravagant a rate as twopence a word, it awaits your disposal at the end of the continental wire, at any time of the day or night.
When someone has just left, with hostility:
Thus departed Hiawatha;
Hiawatha the Beloved;
To the purple mists of evening;
To the golden glow of sunset;
To the Land of the Hereafter.
When you want to remind someone that England did win the WC:
The old men forget, and all shall be forgot;
But we remember with advantages the feats they did that day.
And one that speaks for itself:
I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
If used too often in your conversations (and in your posts), they become hackneyed and irritating. But used occasionally, they can be amusing (hopefully) and can defuse tension.
