Ever referenced a famous historical quote in your works?

[AchtungNight]

Yes on my end. When Erika makes a lesbian come-on in the jungle-themed club in Passion 3 (https://literotica.com/s/passion-of-erika-christensen-ch-03), I was paraphrasing a famous jungle explorer’s line. “Dr. Isobel Evans, I presume?” The story is a fanfic if you didn’t already know.

Similarly my recent Pathfinder fanfic (https://www.literotica.com/s/pathfinder-union-of-the-righteous) concludes with the line “As above, so below”.

 

[Altissimus]

Yes, but it was for the Ogg Memorial on Heroism, and I started it with three such quotes. Not sure if that counts for the context of what you're asking.

 

[BobbyBrandt]

In Heavy Traffic, every chapter (20) is prefaced with an historic quote relevant to the coming scenes. Quoted sources ranged from Plato to Kurt Cobain.

 

[EmilyMiller]

Do Firefly and Serenity quotes count?

Em

 

[Bamagan]

Do Firefly and Serenity quotes count?

Em

You're gorram right they do. Can't stop the signal.

 

[AchtungNight]

You're gorram right they do. Can't stop the signal.

Mal. He killed me. The bastard killed me with a sword! But I got the signal out, Mal. They got my main transmitter, but I have multiple backups. They can’t stop the signal, Mal. They will never stop the signal!

It’s a leaf on the wind. Watch how it soars.

 

[alohadave]

Mal. He killed me. The bastard killed me with a sword! But I got the signal out, Mal. They got my main transmitter, but I have multiple backups. They can’t stop the signal, Mal. They will never stop the signal!

It’s a leaf on the wind. Watch how it soars.

Dammit, I was going to post that quote.

 

[yowser]

Two.

Newton's First Law: Quantitas Materiæ est mensura ejusdem orta ex illius Densitate et Magnitudine conjunctim. in Frig Newton.

Baldomero Fernandez Moreno: Buenos Aires resume el universo in House of Doors.

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[Rob_Royale]

In Pretty Please I quoted the Walrus and the Carpenter by Lewis Carroll.

 

[Kumquatqueen]

FMC has had panic attacks every time she's tried, but finally manages to have penetrative sex:
"One small thrust for a man, a giant leap for my mind."

I've also had a couple truths universally acknowledged, that a X must be in need of a Y.

 

[MadeleineSinha]

I'm writing one at the moment where my main character refers to herself as a Single Lady oh oh oh oh oh oh

If Firefly and Serenity count I'm going with Beyonce

 

[MillieDynamite]

I have quoted Shakespeare, movies, poems, and some others before or just after the title on the first page of stories.

 

[stickygirl]

I quoted some bloke in Under your Skin
'O gentle sleep. Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee,
That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down
And steep my senses in forgetfulness?'

and if I could write stuff like that I wouldn't be here

 

[CyranoJ]

One of my stories kicks off with a pretty heavy epigraph from Maya Angelou's "Caged Bird", which would normally be some basic-assed shit to do but I think works tolerably well in context.

A series of erotic Star Trek parodies that later became novellas (and a short story anthology) published offsite draws routinely on Shakespeare and other literature (including Lord Tennyson's "Tithonus") in affectionate parody of the way the original series used such material to add gravitas to the proceedings.

Some other stories reference song lyrics pretty heavily, which I don't think necessarily count as "famous historical quotes," but one of which also briefly references Henry Reed's "Naming of Parts."

 

[TarnishedPenny]

I've quoted Celtic folk songs, an ancient Greek lesbian poet, an Australian rock band, Leonard Cohen, etc.

 

[Candy_Kane54]

I ended one story with "Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning."

 

[MillieDynamite]

By the pricking of thumb, something wicked this way comes. I've been meaning to use that in a story's introduction.

 

[theWollstonecraftWoman]

By the pricking of thumb, something wicked this way comes. I've been meaning to use that in a story's introduction.

A novel by Ray Bradbury, right?

 

[MillieDynamite]

Ray Bradbury wrote a dark fantasy novel called Something Wicked This Way Comes. But the quote is from Macbeth and said by the second witch. But you were sort of close.

A novel by Ray Bradbury, right?

 

[theWollstonecraftWoman]

Ray Bradbury wrote a dark fantasy novel called Something Wicked This Way Comes. But the quote is from Macbeth and said by the second witch. But you were sort of close.

William Fucking Shakespeare, I should've known. Okay.

 

[alohadave]

I ended one story with "Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning."

Love that movie, cheesy as it is. That quote has always stuck with me.

 

[AchtungNight]

I ended one story with "Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning."

Funny, I ended my five chapter four person lesbian hookup story “The Rendezvous” with a reference to that same quote.

 

[dasgoodshit]

In Heavy Traffic, every chapter (20) is prefaced with an historic quote relevant to the coming scenes. Quoted sources ranged from Plato to Kurt Cobain.

i love shit like that

 

[dasgoodshit]

Famous historical quotes? Not that I recall, but I do love references to books, music, movies, etc., and I like to slip them in surreptitiously when I can. I have a story that's been in development for quite a while (and by that I mean it's been about two months, lol), with two overt, named references to songs, and another story with a song used as the plot device to get to the action that I estimate will be rolling out in about a month.

 

[EmilyMiller]

Ever referenced a famous historical quote in your works?​

I also bastardized the ending of 1984 in Dungeon 101.

Em