This page contains some words that I hold for well-spoken. The quotations are divided into several sub-groups, so that it will be easier for you to find the sort of quotes that you like. The quotations are always written in the original language, and, when I've found a good translation, in English. This page will be expanded.

English writers:

George Orwell

All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others. Animal Farm

Big Brother is watching you. Nineteen-Eighty-Four

War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength. Nineteen-Eighty-Four

Down with Big Brother. Nineteen-Eighty-four

Leslie Allen Paul

Angry Young Man (the title of a book)

Edgar Allen Poe

If there is on Earth a supreme and unqualified despotism, it is the despotism of a mastermind in boyhood over the less energetic spirits of its companions.

Herbert Spencer

The survival of the fittest.

Jonathan Swift

I said the thing which was not. Gulliver's Travels

Oscar Wilde

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.

The Bible

And so it was, that, while they were there, the days were accomplished that she should be delivered. And she brought forth her firstborn son, and laid him in a manger, because there were no room for them in the inn. Luke 2

My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Mark 15, Matthew 27

J.R.R Tolkien

"A grim morn, and a glad day, and a golden sunset."

"What a pity that Bilbo did not stab that vile creature, when he had a chance!" "Pity? It was Pity that stayed his hand. Pity, and mercy: not to strike without need. And he has been well rewarded, Frodo. Be sure that he took so little hurt from the evil, and escaped in the end, because he began his ownership og the Ring so. With Pity."

Songwriters

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Leonard Cohen

Dance Me to the End of Love

I am guided by a signal in the heavens // I am guided by this birthmark on my skin // I am guided by the beauty of our weapons // First we take Manhattan then we take Berlin

I was born like this I had no choice // I was born with the gift of a golden voice

Bob Dylan

Let Me Die in My Footsteps

Man of Constant Sorrow

The answer , my friend, is blowing in the wind

Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall

The Times They Are A-Changing

I was so much older then I'm younger than that now

Man gave names to all the animals // In the beginning // In the beginning // Long time ago

Neil Young

No one wins // It's a War of Man

I'm a dreaming man // Yes that my problem // I can't tell when I'm not being real