If you are going to fight a duel, and you make a will and write affectionate letters to your parents, and if you think you may be killed, you are a fool and are lost for certain.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

It was only a dream, and yet I am just as tired as if I really had done everything.’
— from Grimms' Fairy Tales by Wilhelm Grimm

¡Ay, doña Ana, Yes, Doña Ana, cuán a buen tiempo salís!
— from Don Juan Tenorio by José Zorrilla

Be off, or you may find a dog at your heels.”
— from The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

It can be whitewashed in a day, and your mother can live there quite comfortably; and I will put the children to a good school.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

"Yes; but you see that was a drunkard, and you are a man, and so am I."
— from White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

‘But not many, I think,’ replied I, ‘and I’m sure all children are not like theirs; for I and Mary were not: we always did as you bid us, didn’t we?’
— from Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë

'You mayn't be blessed with brains, but there are hundreds and hundreds of you, big, stout fellows, as fat as butter, and your burrows running in all directions, and you could have taken him in and made him safe and comfortable, or tried to, at all events.'
— from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

“You mayn’t be blest with brains, but there are hundreds and hundreds of you, big, stout fellows, as fat as butter, and your burrows running in all directions, and you could have taken him in and made him safe and comfortable, or tried to, at all events.”
— from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

Yet did we build of iron, bricks, and blood; We built a day, a year, a thousand years, Blood was the mortar,—blood and tears, And, ah, the Thing, the Thing of wings, The wingéd, folding Wing of Things Did furnish much mad mortar For that tower.
— from Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

“Yes,” assured Doctor Joe, “you’re likely to get contrary, and if I’m around I’ll make you behave and do as you’re told.”
— from Grit A-Plenty: A Tale of the Labrador Wild by Dillon Wallace

On New Year's morning Lotus Blossom and her brother receive their own presents, and although they do not shout and jump up and down as you do when you are very happy, they are much pleased.
— from Our Little Japanese Cousin by Mary Hazelton Blanchard Wade

"We will that," said the other man, heartily; "McKinley—" "You'll excuse me"—the old man struck in with a deprecating air, yet under the apology something fiercely eager and anxious that glued the hearer's eyes to his quivering old face—"You'll excuse me.
— from Stories That End Well by Octave Thanet

Eger , Sir, I have always divided as you directed, except on one occasion; never voted against your friends, only in that affair.—But, sir, I hope you will not so exert your influence as to insist upon my supporting a measure by an obvious, prostituted sophistry, in direct opposition to my character and my conscience.
— from The Man of the World (1792) by Charles Macklin

But have you also reflected that I lose at the same time my means of subsistence, and that after this scandal you also will find it impossible to live on at Dönninghausen as you have done?
— from A Noble Name; or, Dönninghausen by Claire von Glümer

The Son of Man is come both eating and drinking, and you say: Behold a man that is a glutton and a drinker of wine.”
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 15, Nos. 85-90, April 1872-September 1872 A Monthly Magazine by Various

“Tell us how many lads are dangling after you at the present moment, Nell—dangling like mackerel on the streamers?”
— from The Love That Prevailed by Frank Frankfort Moore

Cutha is a district as yet unknown, but it may be noticed that the Biblical account represents the men of Cutha as serving Nergal, who is known from Cuneiform inscriptions to have been a “lion-god,” worshipped by inhabitants of Cutha, and therefore an appropriate deity to appease when a plague of lions was devastating the land.
— from Tent Work in Palestine: A Record of Discovery and Adventure by C. R. (Claude Reignier) Conder

all do as you say,—even the good priest there; you have a little hand, but it leads all; so go, petite ."
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

If I may use your own words, sir, I don't give a damn about your meeting.
— from The Reckoning A Play in One Act by Percival Wilde