what the title says.
there are sooo many for me but one of my favorite quotes ever is from a clockwork orange by anthony burgess:
“Oh it was gorgeousness and gorgeosity made flesh. The trombones crunched redgold under my bed, and behind my gulliver the trumpets three-wise silverflamed, and there by the door the timps rolling through my guts and out again crunched like candy thunder. Oh, it was wonder of wonders. And then, a bird of like rarest spun heavenmetal, or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now, came the violin solo above all the other strings, and those strings were like a cage of silk round my bed. Then flute and oboe bored, like worms of like platinum, into the thick thick toffee gold and silver. I was in such bliss, my brothers.”
“No insect hangs it’s nest on threads as frail as those which will sustain the weight of human dignity.”
Edith Wharton The House of Mirth
(I was absolutely wowed with her prose in this book.)