Share a Classic Line.

[𝘗rincess 𝘵uvstarr]

I was rereading a Dylan Thomas story called Old Garbo and it had this line which stood out:

"There might be a quarrel with razors, and once Ted Williams found a lip outside the Mission to Seamen. It had a small moustache."

Would anyone like to share lines that have lingered in the memory after reading stories?

[ripper]

One of my favourite lines from the master of gentle society humour, P.G. Wodehouse.

'A meloncholy-looking man, he had the appearance of one who has searched for the leak in life's gas-pipe with a lighted candle.'.'

[Knygathin]

"Bow down: I am the emperor of dreams;"

Clark Ashton Smith was such an authority. He was beyond literary criticism.

[Shrink Proof]

Another P G Wodehouse line - "it is seldom difficult to tell the difference between a ray of sunshine and a Scotsman with a grievance".

[Caitrin]

Or more Wodehouse…”There is only one cure for grey hair. A Frenchman invented it. It was called the guillotine!”

[𝘗rincess 𝘵uvstarr]

Longer than a line:

THEY HAD a house of crystal pillars on the planet Mars by the edge of an empty sea, and every morning you could see Mrs. K eating the golden fruits that grew from the crystal walls, or cleaning the house with handfuls of magnetic dust which, taking all dirt with it, blew away on the hot wind. Afternoons, when the fossil sea was warm and motionless, and the wine trees stood stiff in the yard, and the little distant Martian bone town was all enclosed, and no one drifted out their doors, you could see Mr. K himself in his room, reading from a metal book with raised hieroglyphs over which he brushed his hand, as one might play a harp. And from the book, as his fingers stroked, a voice sang, a soft ancient voice, which told tales of when the sea was red steam on the shore and ancient men had carried clouds of metal insects and electric spiders into battle.