thanks to project gutenburg, three of our texts are available online in txt form- so quotation searching has become that much easier!
silas marner
return of the native
heart of darkness

and the eserver drama collection brings you antony & cleopatra

for robert frost's poetry, ordered by publication.

unfortunately, I haven't been able to locate a txt copy of who's afraid of virginia woolf, this is probably because it is too new (like 1960's new) to have been released into the public domain. hope this helps, and good luck. :)

EDIT: as grace and vivien were thoroughly puzzled as to why I'd sent out those links, the advantage of an e-text is that it can be searched for keywords by using the aptly named Find function (ctrl+f). so if you're looking for quotes on fate, just enter fate and hit search- it will take you to the first instance of fate, then 'find next' will take you to the next, and so on. this is obviously no substitute for plowing through the text like we've been advised to do, but if you're compiling a soft copy of quotes it may be easier to just copy and paste rather than retype whole bits. just searching fate won't get you all the quotes on fate, because hardy/conrad never considered signposting their clever bits with keywords! so for best results, plow. (and she cropped, bah.)