Quotes about English literature

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...the wise words of a friend and guide rang in my head. 'How would you distinguish a true servant of God from a traitor — Harry Blamires, Highway To Heaven
I live on remnants of dreams — Khaled Ibrahim
وإذا أنْتَ أثْبَتتَ أنَّ الكَلْبَ أوْفى مِنْكَ، فَأنا ما زِلْتُ إنْسانًاAnd if you have proven that dog is more loyal th — Khaled Ibrahim
English is the language through which I reach hearts from various corners of the world. English is the language through — Abhijit Naskar, Human Making is Our Mission: A Treatise on Parenting
The most difficult thing for a wise woman to do is to pretend to be a foolish one. — W. Somerset Maugham, Mrs Craddock
The popular distinction between 'constructive' and 'destructive' criticism is a sentimentality: the mind too weak to per — he is saying 'see what a nice person I am.
The arts that have escaped [uniformity] best are the arts in which the public take no interest. Poetry is an instance of — Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism
But why," he said with animation, "do the English not read their own great literature?"Victor laughed triumphantly, and — Olaf Stapledon, A Man Divided
What else can I do? Once you've gone this far you aren't fit for anything else. Something happens to your mind. You're o — Margaret Atwood, The Edible Woman
Ninety-nine per cent of traditional English literature concerns people who never have to worry about money at all. We al — James Kelman
Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, a — Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
Now why should that man have fainted? But he did,and right across my path by the wall, so that I had to creep over him e — Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper
If Bengali is my mother, then English is my father and friend. — Abhijit Naskar, Human Making is Our Mission: A Treatise on Parenting
The time is ripe for young Indian authors writing in the English language. — Anurag Shourie, An Ode Towards Hope –
When the devout religion of mine eyeMaintains such falsehood, then turn tears to fires,And these, who, often drowned, co — William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
Nor shall this peace sleep with her; but as whenThe bird of wonder dies, the maiden phoenix,Her ashes new-create another — William Shakespeare, Henry VIII
In my mind's eye — William Shakespeare, Hamlet
She'd become an English major for the purest and dullest of reasons: because she loved to read. — Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot
Libraries are always bigger on the inside because every book has an entire word inside of it. — Robert Arger
Here rests his head upon the lap of earthA youth to fortune and to fame unknown.Fair Science frowned not on his humble b — Thomas Gray, An Elegy Written In A Country Churchyard