- 1. So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- 2. Hey, I'm not wearing underwear
- "The Parking Ticket," from the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode "Once More With Feeling," written by Joss Whedon
- 3. I lingered round them, under that benign sky; watched the moths fluttering among the heath, and hare-bells; listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass; and wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers, for the sleepers in that quiet earth.
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
- 4. "Well, I'm back," he said.
- The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings was also an acceptable answer)
- 5. 'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all / Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.'
- "Ode to a Grecian Urn" by John Keats
- 6. Well, nobody's perfect.
- Some Like It Hot, spoken by by Joe E. Brown as Osgood Fielding III, screenplay by Billy Wilder and I. A. D. Diamond
- 7. The oldest hath borne most: we that are young shall never see so much, nor live so long.
- King Lear, dialogue spoken by Edgar or the Duke of Albany depending on what edition of the text you're looking at, written by William Shakespeare
- 8. Someday I'm gonna make her mine.
- "Her Majesty" by the Beatles (Abbey Road was also an acceptable answer)
- 9. Hail to the king, baby.
- Army of Darkness, spoken by Bruce Campbell as Ash Williams, screenplay by Sam and Ivan Raimi
- 10. Eh bien, continuons...
- No Exit, dialogue spoken by Garcin, written by Jean-Paul Sartre
Kudos to sunbrae (who correctly identified no. 8),
mmaresca (nos. 4 and 9),
abby20 (nos. 3 and 4, plus, the author of 5),
angelchicken (no. 2),
fizzball (no. 6),
petzipellepingo (nos. 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, and 9, plus the episode in which no. 2 appeared), and
ebrookeb (no. 10)