Category: English Literature

Quotations

√ “Beauty is truth, truth is beauty ”
— John Keats
√ A thing of beauty is a joy forever
— John Keats
√ “To be or not to be, that is the question ”
— Shakespeare (Hamlet)
√ “Cowards die many times before their deaths”
— Shakespeare
√ “Brevity is the soul of wit”
— Shakespeare
√ Example is better than precept”
— S. Smiles
√ Life is not life without delight
— Rabindranath Tagore
√ “If winter comes, can spring be far behind”
— P.B. Shelley
√ “Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought”
— P.B. Shelley
√ “Justice delayed is justice denied”
— Gladstone
√ “Justice hurried is justice buried”
— Gladstone
√ Pain is the outcome of sin
— Gautam Buddha
√ “To err is human; to forgive is divine”
— Alexander Pope
√ “Fools rush in where angels fear to tread”
— Alexander Pope
√ “A little learning is a dangerous thing”
— Alexander Pope
√ “He prayeth best who loveth best”
— Coleridge
√ Eureka! Eureka! (I have found it)
— Archimedes
√ Man is by nature a political animal
— Aristotle
√ The child is the father of a man
— William Shakespeare
√ Government of the people, by the people,
for the people
— Abraham Lincoln
√ Opportunity makes a thief
— Francis Bacon
√ Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains”
— Rousseau
√ “Give me a good mother, I will give you a good nation”
— Napoleon
√ “I have a dream that one day this nation will live out true meaning of its creed that all men are create equal”
— Martin Luther King
√ “All the word’s stage and all the men and women merely players.”
— Shakespeare
√ “Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, writing an exact man”
— Francis Bacon
√ “Water, water everywhere, not a drop of to drink.”
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
√ “Sweet are the uses of adversity”
— Shakespeare
√ “The government is the best which governs least”
— Henry David Thoreau
√ “Frailty thy name is women”
— Shakespeare
√ “Man proposes but God disposes.”
— Thomas Kempis
√ “Good face is the best letter of recommendation”
— Queen Elizabeth
√ “But I have promises to keep And miles to go before I sleep.”
— Robert Frost
√ “Live and let live is a rule of common justice”
— Lord Mansfield
√ “Nature never did betray the heart that loved her”
— Wordsworth
√ “Superstition is a religion of febble minded person”
— Edmund Burke
√ “Practice is bitter but its fruits is sweet”
— Russet
√ The man who does not read books has no advantage over the man that can not read them.
— Mark Twain
√ I cannot live without books.
— Thomas Jefferson
√ Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.
— John Ruskin
√ There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
√ Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.
— Walter Benjamin
√ No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
— Samuel Johnson
√ My library was dukedom large enough.
— William Shakespeare
√ A library implies an act of faith.
— Victor Hugo
√ Your library is your paradise.
— Desiderius Erasmus
√ A book worth reading is worth buying.
— John Ruskin
√ A room without books is like a body without a soul.
— Marcus Tulius Cicero
√ No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.
— Robert Frost
√ Read in order to live.
— Gustave Flaubert
√ The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.
— Lord Byron
√ Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
— Lord Chesterfield
√ In my mind’s eye
— William Shakespeare
√ “Twas brillig, and the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe”
– Lewis Carroll
√ “Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.”
– George Orwell
√ “It was the day my grandmother exploded”
– Iain Banks
√ Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
— George Orwell
√ War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
— George Orwell
√ Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.
— George Orwell
√ Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
— George Orwell
√ It is never too late to be what you might have been.
— George Eliot
√ Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
— George Eliot
√ The most positive men are the most credulous.
— Alexander Pope
√ A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.
— Alexander Pope