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| `I have no name: / I am but two days old.' / What shall I call thee? / `I happy am, / Joy is my name.' / Sweet joy befall thee! | | William Blake | |
| `I weep for you,' the Walrus said: / `I deeply sympathize.' / With sobs and tears he sorted out / Those of the largest size, / Holding his pocket-handkerchief / Before his streaming eyes. | | Lewis Carroll | |
| `I'll be judge, I'll be jury,' said cunning old Fury: / `I'll try the whole cause, and condemn you to death.' | | Lewis Carroll | |
| `If I should die', said I to myself, `I have left no immortal work behind me - nothing to make my friends proud of my memory - but I have loved the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remembered.' | | John Keats | |
| `It's very rude of him,' she said, / `To come and spoil the fun!' | | Lewis Carroll | |
| `Let us now praise famous men' - / Men of little showing - / For their work continueth, / And their work continueth, / Broad and deep continueth, / Greater than their knowing! | | Rudyard Kipling | |
| `Not men but measures'; a sort of charm by which many people get loose from every honourable engagement. | | Edmund Burke | |
| `Pipe a song about a Lamb!' / So I piped with merry cheer. | | William Blake | |
| `Sensible men are all of the same religion.' `And pray, what is that?' inquired the prince. `Sensible men never tell.' | | Benjamin Disraeli | |
| `The night is fine,' the Walrus said. / `Do you admire the view?' | | Lewis Carroll | |
| `Then you should say what you mean,' the March Hare went on. `I do,' Alice hastily replied; `at least - at least I mean what I say - that's the same thing, you know.' | | Lewis Carroll | |
| `This man', said M'Turk, with conviction, `is the Gadarene Swine,' | | Rudyard Kipling | |
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| `We be of one blood, thou and I,' Mowgli answered, `. . . my kill shall be thy kill if ever thou art hungry.' | | Rudyard Kipling | |
| `Whom the gods love die young' was said of yore. | | Lord Byron | |
| `Will you walk a little faster?' said a whiting to a snail, / `There's a porpoise close behind us, and he's treading on my tail.' | | Lewis Carroll | |
| `With every pleasing, every prudent part,/ Say, what can Chloe want?' - She wants a heart. | | Alexander Pope | |
| `Wouldst thou' - so the helmsman answered. - / `Learn the secret of the sea? / Only those who brave its dangers / Comprehend its mystery!' | | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | |
| `You must sit down,' says Love, `and taste my meat.' / So I did sit and eat. | | George Herbert | |
| … Although most of us know Vincent van Gogh in Arles and Paul Gauguin in Tahiti as if they were neighbors -- somewhat disreputable but endlessly fascinating -- none of us can name two French generals or department store owners of that period. I take enormous pride in considering myself an artist, one of the necessaries. | | James A. Michener | |
