Top Ten Tuesday: A Few Classic Quotes
24 February 2026
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Tags: book-blog, Books, Classic Books, Quotes, reading, That Artsy Reader Girl, The Broke and the Bookish, Top Ten Tuesday
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme where every Tuesday we look at a particular topic for discussion and use various (or more to the point ten) bookish examples to demonstrate that particular topic. Top Ten Tuesday (created and hosted by The Broke and Bookish) is now being hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl and future week’s topics can be found here. This week’s prompt is:
Quotes from Books you Love
I decided to use classic books – some of the ones I really have loved over the years and the quotes are well known, so see how many of these you can guess.
‘Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again. It seemed to me I stood by the iron gate leading to the drive, and for a while I could not enter, for the way was barred to me.’
‘You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of underdone potato. There’s more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!’
‘May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out’
‘Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.’
‘It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.’
‘Tomorrow I’ll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day.‘
‘Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.‘
‘My father’s family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip‘
‘Curiouser and curiouser’
‘The most wonderful thing about Tiggers is, I’m the only one.’
And the answers are:
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Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell
The Princess Bride by William Goldman
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Winnie the Pooh by AA Milne
Top Ten Tuesday : Opening first lines #WyrdAndWonder
24 May 2022
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Tags: Opening sentences, Quotes, That Artsy Reader Girl, Top Ten Tuesday, Wyrd and Wonder
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme where every Tuesday we look at a particular topic for discussion and use various (or more to the point ten) bookish examples to demonstrate that particular topic. Top Ten Tuesday (created and hosted by The Broke and Bookish) is now being hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl and future week’s topics can be found here. This week’s topic:
Book Quote Freebie
As it’s Wyrd and Wonder all the books I used for this week’s theme are fantasy and in lieu of it being a ‘freebie’ I’m going for first line quotes from recent fantasy – let’s see how I get on. These are all recent reads and the reviews are linked so if you are intrigued by the opening sentence then check out the review and see if the book calls to you.
Nettle and Bone by T Kingfisher – ‘The trees were full of crows and the woods were full of madmen.’
The Girl and the Moon (Book of the Ice #3) by Mark Lawrence – ‘Yaz had walked on water her entire life, and now in this place where it fell molten from the skies they planned to drown her in the stuff.’
The Hunger of the Gods (#2 of the Bloodsworn Saga) by John Gwynne – ‘Orka stood in a tempest of fire and smoke.’
The Justice of Kings (Empire of the Wolf #1) by Richard Swan – ‘It is a strange thing to think that the end of the Empire of the Wolf, and all the death and devastation that came with it, traced its long roots back to the tiny and insignificant village of Rill.’
This Charming Man (The Stranger Times #2) by CK McDonnell – ‘The Hunger. The damned hunger. Phillip had never felt anything like it.’
Echo by Thomas Olde Heuvelt – ‘Julia sees the people in the stairwell when she gets up at night to pee’
The Haunting of Las Lagrimas by WM Cleese – ‘Every night the same things happen.’
The Great Witch of Brittany by Louisa Morgan – ‘Thirteen-year-old Ursule Orchiere knelt in the shadow of the red caravan to watch her mother lie to people.’
A Witch in Time by Constance Sayers – ‘Just after my divorce was final, my friend set me up on a blind date.’
Comfort Me With Apples by Catherynne M Valente – ‘Welcome to a new world of luxury living in Arcadia Gardens, an exclusive, upscale gated community!’
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