Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by the Broke and the Bookish.  This week, 10 favourite classics is the topic and mine are as follows (with a favourite quote from each book)’:

1. The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien – ‘One Does Not Simply Walk into Mordor’ – actually, as it happens, one does – take that Boromir!  It is not folly I tell you!
2. The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien- “Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?” – I hate mornings!  I have an alarm set to 10.30 am on my phone (this is historical and I can’t be bothered resetting it) and when it goes off everyone in works knows that I’m now awake and semi-human.  They think it’s amusing!  It’s not though – I hate early mornings.
3. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens  – “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!”
4. Rebecca by Daphne DuMaurier – ‘Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again’.
5. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte – “I would always rather be happy than dignified.” – mmm, I seem to live by that – no dignity in rolling on the floor splitting your sides with laughter, apparently!
6. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen – “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” – and now all we need is a man in possession of such a fortune to come forward (boldly, where no man has gone before, I might add) and admit to that fact!
7. A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare –  “Lord, what fools these mortals be!” (there’s a certain sort of undeniable truth to that statement).
8. Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle – “There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.” – indeed
9. The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe by – “Daughter of Eve from the far land of Spare Oom where eternal summer reigns around the bright city of War Drobe, how would it be if you came and had tea with me?”- simply wonderful, bring on the cake and crumpets.
10. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell – “I wish I could care what you do or where you go but I can’t… My dear, I don’t give a damn.” oh, ouch!

Them’s my choices this week!