Handpicked favourites among things said and written by people

• "If you have the facts, pound the facts. If you have the law, pound the law. If you have neither, pound the table." -- an old legal aphorism.
• "An archaeologist is a man who studies old things and finds they are new."  -- G.K.Chesterton in The Man Who Knew Too Much.
• "It's not what enters men's mouths that's evil, it's what comes out of their mouths that is." -- Paulo Coelho in The Alchemist.
• "It's not levi-OO-sa, not levio-SA!" -- J.K.Rowling via Hermione Granger in Harry Potter and The Philosopher's Stone.
• "Eye of rabbit, harp string hum, turn this water into rum!" -- Seamus Finnigan in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.
• "...the different branches of arithmetic -- ambition, distraction, uglification and derision." -- Lewis Carroll via The Mock Turtle in Alice in Wonderland.
• "Words mean more than we mean to express when we use them." -- Lewis Carroll.
• "If it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic." -- Lewis Carroll via Tweedledee in Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There. 
• "A play, like a cat, has several lives." -- Introduction to Twelfth Night in the Arden Edition. 
• "It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live." -- J.K.Rowling via Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. 
• "Did you miss me?" -- Moriarty in BBC's 2010 TV series, Sherlock. 
• "I'm just gonna take a minute to let it ride. I'm just gonna take a minute and let it breeze." -- K'naan in Take a Minute.
• "Words are, in my not so humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic capable of both inflicting injury and remedying it." -- J.K.Rowling via Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2. 
• "Her shadow it was that tremblers had feared through long generations after her poor frame was dust." -- Charlotte Bronte in Vilette.
• "Poetry is indeed something divine... it is that which comprehends all science, and that to which all science must be referred." -- P.B. Shelley.
• "If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?" -- P.B. Shelley.
• "Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask and he will tell you the truth." -- Oscar Wilde.
• "I will drink/ Life to the lees." -- Tennyson in Ulysses.
• "I am the unified self-controlled center of the universe." -- White European Man of the Ruling Class. 
• "It is our choices,... that show what we truly are..." -- J.K. Rowling via Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.
• "One day God and Met somewhere and both exclaimed, 'My Creator!'" -- Ankana Bhattacharya, my sister.
• "The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing." -- Stephen Covey.
• "Somewhere, far down, there was an itch in his heart, but he made it a point not to scratch it. He was afraid of what might come leaking out." -- Markus Zusak in The Book Thief. 
• "Time moves slowly, but passes quickly." -- Alice Walker in The Colour Purple.
• "Everything was mud... everyone was mud. As the wheel (pottery) turns, as it is moulded, that which comes out is the shape of man." -- G. Kalyana Rao in Untouchable Spring. 
• "We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words." -- John Fowles in The French Lieutenant's Woman.
• "I feel like I've lived only one day with a thousand memories." -- Varening Konghay, my graduation classmate.
• "Between what is said and not meant and what is meant and not said, most of love is lost." -- Kahlil Gibran.