No eggs!\u00a0 No eggs!!\u00a0 Thousand thunders, man, what do you mean by no eggs?<\/p>\n
Saint Joan<\/em>, Bernard Shaw<\/p>\n *****<\/p>\n My edition of this play has a 41-page preface written in 1924 by Ayot St Lawrence which also has a great first line: What a great r\u00e9sum\u00e9.<\/p>\n *****<\/p>\n Thank you to all of you who’ve read any of these 54 opening lines.\u00a0 Perhaps you’ve been encouraged to write the first line of your own novel, poem or play.\u00a0 As a bonus, I can’t help adding the line that many of us think of immediately when asked for a great opener:<\/p>\n It was a dark and stormy night;\u00a0 the rain fell in torrents – except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.<\/p>\n Paul Clifford<\/em>, Edward Bulwer-Lytton<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" No eggs!\u00a0 No eggs!!\u00a0 Thousand thunders, man, what do you mean by no eggs? Saint Joan, Bernard Shaw ***** My edition of this play has a 41-page preface written in 1924 by Ayot St Lawrence which also has a great first line: “Joan of Arc, a village girl from the Vosges, was born about 1412;\u00a0 … <\/p>\n
\n“Joan of Arc, a village girl from the Vosges, was born about 1412;\u00a0 burnt for heresy, witchcraft and sorcery in 1431;\u00a0 rehabilitated after a fashion in 1456;\u00a0 designated Venerable in 1904;\u00a0 declared Blessed in 1908;\u00a0 and finally canonized in 1920.”<\/p>\n