Important Quotations from English Literature for competitive exams ( Part One )

Important Quotations from English Literature for competitive exams ( Part One )

1.       That's one small step for men-a giant leap for mankind— Neil Armstrong

2.       Beauty is truth, truth beauty—Keats

3.       To be or not to be, that is the question — William Shakespeare (Hamlet)

4.       Frailty, thy name is woman— William Shakespeare (Hamlet)

5.       Cowards die many times before their deaths — William  (Julius Caesar)

6.       All the world's stage and all the men and women merely players William Shakespeare (As You Like It)

7.       Sweet are the uses of adversity— William Shakespeare (As You Like It)

8.       Fair is foul, and foul is fair— William Shakespeare(Macbeth)

9.       So long as man can breathe or eyes can see,

So long live this and this gives live to thee—-- William Shakespeare (Sonnet 18)

10.   All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand— William Shakespeare (Macbeth)

11.   I have a dream that one day this nation will live out the true meaning of its creed that all men are created equal —— Martin Luther King.

12.   That best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love — William Wordsworth (Lyrical Ballads)

13.   Come forth into the light of things, Let Nature be your teacher —William Wordsworth (The Tables Turned)

14.   Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of knowledge —William Wordsworth. Our birth is but a sleep and forgetting... —William Wordsworth (Preface to Lyrical Ballads)

15.   When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions  Shakespeare (Hamlet)

16.   True is it that we have seen better days. —- Shakespeare (As u Like it)

17.   The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. — Shakespeare (As You Like it)

18.   What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. — William Shakespeare. (Romeo and Juliet)

19.   The miserable have no other medicine but only hope. — William Shakespeare (Measure for Measure)

20.   Nature teaches beasts to know their friends. — Shakespeare (Coriolanus)

21.   The common curse of mankind, - folly and ignorance. — Shakespeare (Troilus and Cressida)

22.   If winter comes, can spring be far behind?— P.B. Shelley (Ode to The West Wind)

23.   Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought P.B. Shelley (To a Skylark)

24.   Brevity is the soul of wit— Shakespeare (Hamlet)

25.   Justice delayed is justice denied— Gladstone

26.   They think too little who talk too much — John Dryden

27.   Superstition is a religion of feeble minded person —— Edmund Burke

28.   To err is human; to forgive is divine — Alexander Pope (An Essay on Criticism)

29.   Fools rush in where angels fear to tread — Alexander Pope (An Essay on  Criticism)

30.   A little learning is a dangerous thing — Alexander Pope (An Essay on Criticism)

31.   Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world P. B. Shelley (A  defense of poetry)

32.   All at once I saw a crowd, a host of golden daffodils -William Wordsworth (l Wandered lonely as a Cloud)

33.   Ten saw I at a glance, Tossing their heads in sprightly dance— William Wordsworth (l Wandered lonely as a Cloud)

34.   East is east and West is west.

Never the twain shall meet. — Rudyard Kipling

35.   The end of Knowledge is power —Hobbes

36.   The child is the father of a man —William Wordsworth (My Heart Leaps up when I Behold)

37.   Fair daffodils we weep to see

you haste away soon — Robert Herrick (To Daffodils)