12 AP Literature and Composition
Slaughterhouse Five“So it Goes”/ “Poo tee weet”
Oedipus “I curse myself as well…if by any chance he proves to be an intimate of our house”
“What good were eyes to me? Nothing I could see could bring me joy”
Antigone “No man alive is free/ From error”Teireseias
“I have longer to please the dead than please the living here”
Lysistrata: Magistrate: “May I die a thousand deaths ere I obey one who wears a veil!”
Calonice: “My dear Lysistrata, just what is this matter you've summoned us women to consider.What's up? Something big?”
Lysistrata: “Very big.”
Hamlet: "Frailty, thy name is women!
"Something is rotten in the state of Denmark."
"Though this be madness, yet there is method in't."
"The lady doth protest too much, methinks."
"Good night, sweet Prince, and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest."
Julius Caesar:"Beware the ides of March"
“But I am constant as the northern star,”
"The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings."
"Et tu, Brutè? -- Then fall Caesar."
“Cry 'Havoc,' and let slip the dogs of war..."
Waiting for Godot:“Nothing to be done.”
“I'm glad to see you back. I thought you were gone forever.”
“I was asleep! (Despairingly.) Why will you never let me sleep?
I felt lonely.”
Frankenstein: “I am alone and miserable…”
“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”
“Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.”
“I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel...”
“I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous.”
A Streetcar Named Desire:“I don't want realism. I want magic! Yes, yes, magic! I try to give that to people. I misrepresent things to them. I don't tell the truth, I tell what ought to be the truth. And it that's sinful, then let me be damned for it!”
“I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.”
“Some things are not forgiveable. Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable…”
“And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.”
“They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at - Elysian Fields!”
“We've had this date with each other from the beginning.”
The Great Gatsby:“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
“I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”
“Can’t repeat the past?…Why of course you can!”
“They’re a rotten crowd’, I shouted across the lawn. ‘You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together.”
“It’s a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking people.”
“It takes two to make an accident.”
The Bluest Eye:“Love is never any better than the lover. ”
“I had only one desire: to dismember it. To see of what it was made, to discover the dearness, to find the beauty, the desirability that had escaped me, but apparently only me.”
“Love is never any better than the lover. Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love a free man is never safe.”
“Certain seeds it will not nurture, certain fruit it will not bear and when the land kills of its own volition, we acquiesce and say the victim had no right to live”