For some reason, I like coming across places in literature where the author has to nest quotes a bunch. I noticed the other day that if you were writing something where you needed to quote Genesis 32:4 (just that one verse!), you would need 4 levels of quotation marks.
Jacob is sending some messengers to Esau. Quoting from verse 4: “He also commanded [the messengers] saying, ‘Thus you shall say to my lord Esau: “Thus says your servant Jacob, ‘I have sojourned with Laban…’”’”
Of course, if you quote this blog post, you’d need 5 levels!
I googled for examples of deeply nested quotes and found this one, also from the Bible, which is 5 levels deep (copied from here):
Also, in my Genesis quote above, the browser initially mangled which quotation marks are opening and which are closing. I had to carefully edit the quote using HTML entities (“ for a left double quote, etc.) to get it to look right. Which was totally worth it for this extremely consequential blog post!