Know your Quotations

[justacritic]

So how about this game? We all state a quote from some accessible source such as literature, film, etc.  (no private in jokes please). Then people will attempt to guess the identity of the quote's originator. Now after three fail attempts the poster will reveal the quote's source.
I believe I'll start

"I aten't dead" 

[LionHeart]

Granny Weatherwax. That's the sign she uses when she goes out "Borrowing".

[Darkdragon]

Question to OP: If the original quote is in another language (eg. Je pense donc je suis), do we write that, the common translation (cogito ergo sum) translation, the English translation (I think, therefore I am) or some combination thereof?

[justacritic]

try a combination of the two, not all of us are fluent in multiple languages 

[Gabi]

And that would be Descartes, right? But did he make that statement in French or in Latin?

OK, another quote... Let's try to think of one that may be known by English speakers and is not from Discworld...

Ah, I know! One that made me laugh a lot when I was 5... except that I had to look up the original English version for this: "clean Elliott and eat the lamp".

[Corgatha Taldorthar]

Pete's dragon, I believe. (for Gabi's quote)


"Goodbye and hello, as always."

[justacritic]

Granny Weatherwax. That's the sign she uses when she goes out "Borrowing".

Correct

[Gabi]

Pete's dragon, I believe. (for Gabi's quote)

Also correct.

[Darkdragon]

And that would be Descartes, right? But did he make that statement in French or in Latin?

It is, indeed Descartes; although originally he wrote his famous proclamation in French, it was translated into Latin as it traveled around Europe, it being the lingua franca at the time.

I really like quotes, but most of the literature I read tends to be aged. For the purposes of this, I will include a classical quote and a contemporary quote for everyone to ponder.

Classical: "Him the almighty hurl'd headlong flaming from th' Ethereal Skie with hideous ruine and combustion down to bottomless perdition, there to dwell in Adamantine Chains and penal Fire, who durst defie th' Omnipotent to Arms."

Contemporary: "A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies."

[justacritic]

Classical: "Him the almighty hurl'd headlong flaming from th' Ethereal Skie with hideous ruine and combustion down to bottomless perdition, there to dwell in Adamantine Chains and penal Fire, who durst defie th' Omnipotent to Arms."

Contemporary: "A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies."

Classical: Dante's Inferno? and it was said by Virgil?

[Darkdragon]

Nope. Note that the two different quotes are said by different people.

[Gabi]

"A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies." - Oscar Wilde, who is only contemporary if you're much older than you let on. Unless you're talking about the contemporary era? O_o

New quote: "Oh. By the way. My lipstick. It's deadly."

[Darkdragon]

I do mean the contemporary era, my apologies for any misunderstandings. (When I say "contemporary" I mean "within the last 150 years or so")

[Corgatha Taldorthar]

Rules question. Does "three attempts" mean three actual guesses to a quote, or simply three posts following it? Because nobody seems to have taken a stab at mine 

[justacritic]

Rules question. Does "three attempts" mean three actual guesses to a quote, or simply three posts following it? Because nobody seems to have taken a stab at mine 

Three actual fail guesses, as for why I haven't tried guessing yours, I'm not as literate in movies and film as other people

[Darkdragon]

I'm not a movies person, so I wouldn't know...

[Corgatha Taldorthar]

It's from a book

[justacritic]

It's from a book

Tweedledum and Tweedledee from Alice's adventures behind the looking glass?

[Darkdragon]

Is it, perchance, a fantasy book written after 1950?

[Corgatha Taldorthar]

Yes to Darkdragon, no to Justacritic

[Darkdragon]

The quote sounds like Stroud. Maybe Pratchett, Zelazny or Wrede. I'm not sure.

[Corgatha Taldorthar]

Zelazny. He ends both Amber series with the same line.

[MT Hazard]

I'll give this a try

"In my defence that was physically impossible"

[e_voyager]

i'm not great with movie trivia either but i love my book collection here's an easy one. i don't know if they put it in the recent movie that they made though.

"There is an inn, a merry old inn beneath an old grey hill, And there they brew a beer so brown That the Man in the moon himself came down one night to drink his fill"

[Corgatha Taldorthar]

i'm not great with movie trivia either but i love my book collection here's an easy one. i don't know if they put it in the recent movie that they made though.

"There is an inn, a merry old inn beneath an old grey hill, And there they brew a beer so brown That the Man in the moon himself came down one night to drink his fill"

The Ostler has a tipsy cat
that plays a five-stringed fiddle;
and up and down he runs his bow
Now squeaking high, now purring low
now sawing in the middle


It is, of course, from The Fellowship of The Ring, Chapter 9.

[justacritic]

This might be a tough nut to crack
"I don't like your plan. It sucks"