Ancient Historical
He drank Hemlock and prefered to die in obedience to the city's laws rather than break out of prison.
Who is Socrates?
John 3.16
What is: "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish, but have eternal life."
He wrote: "Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? / Thou art more lovely and more temperate: / Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, / And summer’s lease hath all too short a date..."
Who is William Shakespeare?
You don’t know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain’t no matter.
What is Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?
I hope you're pleased with yourselves. We could all have been killed — or worse, expelled. Now if you don't mind, I'm going to bed.
This epic narrative begins: "Rage - Goddess, sing the rage of Peleus' son Achilles, / murderous, doomed, that cost the Achaeans countless losses / hurling down to the House of Death so many sturdy souls / great fighters' souls, but made their bodies carrion / feasts for the dogs and birds/ and the will of Zeus was moving toward its end."
What is the Iliad?
He said: "Late have I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient, ever new."
Who is St. Augustine?
This long work of poetry begins: "Midway upon the journey of our life / I found myself within a dark forest, / For the straightforward pathway had been lost."
What is The Inferno?
There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.
What is The Voyage of the Dawn Treader?
To be, or not to be, that is the question: / Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer / The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, / Or to take arms against a sea of troubles / And by opposing end them.
Who is Hamlet?
He famously carried his father on his shoulders out of the burning city of Troy.
Who is Aeneas?
She wrote: "The splendor of the rose and the whiteness of the lily do not rob the little violet of its scent nor the daisy of its simple charm. If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness."
Who is St. Therese?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY: He said about poetry: "Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese."
Who is G.K. Chesterton?
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
What is Pride and Prejudice?
Pray you, undo this button: thank you, sir. Do you see this? Look on her, look, her lips, Look there, look there!
Who is King Lear?
He wrote: "The study of history is the best medicine for a sick mind; for in history you have a record of the infinite variety of human experience plainly set out for all to see: and in that record you can find for yourself and your country both examples and warnings: fine things to take as models, base things, rotten through and through, to avoid."
Who is Titus Livius (Livy)?
She said: "If you are what you should be, you will set all of Italy ablaze!"
Who is St. Catherine of Siena?
He wrote: "All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king."
Who is J.R.R. Tolkein?
Even before he got electrocuted, Jason was having a rotten day.
What is The Lost Hero?
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.
Who is Oscar Wilde?
He wrote: "After all, no one is stupid enough to prefer war to peace; in peace sons bury their fathers and in war fathers bury their sons."
This saint, who lived from 1567-1622, famously wrote: "Be who you are and be that well."
Who is St. Francis de Sales?
This epic narrative poem begins: "Listen! We have gathered the glory in days of yore / of the Spear-Danes, kings among men: / how these warriors performed deeds of courage.Often / Scyld Scefing seized the mead-seats / from hordes of harmers, from how many people, / terrifying noble men, after he was found / so needy at the start. He wrangled his remedy after, / growing hale under the heavens, thriving honorably, / until all of them had to obey him, / those scattered about, across the whale-road, / must pay him tribute. That was a good king!
What is Beowulf?
The last drops of the thundershower had hardly ceased falling when the Pedestrian stuffed his map into his pocket, settled his pack more comfortably on his tired shoulders, and stepped out from the shelter of a large chestnut tree into the middle of the road.
What is Out of the Silent Planet?
The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides. The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotion; it is the "Living Infinite," as one of your poets has said.
Who is Captain Nemo?