Esquire keeps cranking out the lists, and Updike keeps making them.

This time it’s “49 Great Lines from Classic Esquire Short Stories”—though how “great” some of the lines are is highly debatable.

Updike’s line, at least, holds its own:

“There wasn’t that tireless, irksome, bright-eyed hope women kept fluttering at you.” —John Updike, “The Rumor,” June 1991

Here’s a link to the complete short story.