1. 'How clever you must be!' said Stephen. 'I couldn't write a sermon for the world.'
Thomas Hardy (A pair of blue eyes). Other guesses included Trollope, Kingsley, and Baring-Gould. The hint was enough to give it to Gregory Sankaran.
2. London feels his brain cut round: Edinburgh's heart is circumscribed:
William Blake (Jerusalem). Also attributed to Carlyle, Ruskin, Nostradamus, Hopkins, Scott and George Canning. After the hint appeared 3 people got it.
3. DO-IT-YOURSELF ENVOY IN SOCCER PROBE MARATHON
Michael Frayn (The Tin Men), rather than, say, Stoppard, Bennett, Martin Amis or Kingsley Amis. Two people got it before the hint, others afterwards.
4. "One shouldn't snigger over Jeeves any more than one should snivel over Othello.
Charles Williams (War in Heaven), although others tried to blame Stephen Fry, Alan Clark, Iris Murdoch, and well-known (?) Oxford pubbers Lewis, Tolkien and Dacre Balsdon. Nobody got it, but I do recommend Charles Williams (and indeed Jeeves and Don Quixote of course).
5. So he determined on the near and straight path, through Long Stanton and Willingham...
Charles Kingsley (Hereward the Wake). Not by Meredith, Belloc, Macaulay, Horace Wossname, Groucho Marx, Dorothy Sayers or Conan Doyle. The Westward Ho! hint gave it away to some.
6. 'Look for yourself. Here's the very last map in the whole flaming atlas!
Roald Dahl (The BFG). Only one incorrect guess, Russell Hoban. Martin Hardcastle got it from the hint.
7. I have been practising a popular style of lecture, as yet confused with memories of University College, but it's based on noticing that there are students present.
Tom Stoppard (The invention of love). Everyone realised that it was Housman talking. Some worked out who had put words into his mouth.
8. Music is no different from opium.
Ayatollah Khomeini (Ramadan speech, 1979). Easily confused with Forster, Trotsky, Shaw, John Robinson and Bishop Feaver. Gregory Sankaran got it from the hint.
9. I don't make the effort to follow a French conversation between two other people.
Ronald Knox (French with tears). Also attributed to The Pope and Chesterton (I don't know why). Gregory Sankaran worked it out before the hint came.
10. So finally there was nothing.
Ted Hughes (Conjuring in Heaven). One of the Crow poems. Also attributed to Christian Morgenstern, but when the hint came, everyone got it.
One the basis of one point for a correct answer before the hint, half a point afterwards, Gregory Sankaran wins, ahead of Tom Korner and James Yardley.