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

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1.       We have short time, to stay, as you,

We have as short a spring --— Robert Herrick (To Daffodils)

2.       A thing of beauty is a joy for ever —John Keats

3.       Heard Melodies are sweet but those unheard are sweeter — John Keats (Ode on a Grecian Um)

4.       Give me good mothers and I shall give you good nation-  Napoleon.

5.       Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man and writing an exact man — Francis Bacon (Of Studies)

6.       Wives are young men's mistress, companions for middle age, and old men's nurse —Francis Bacon (Of Marriage and the Single Life)

7.       Man is by nature a political animal —Aristotle

8.       The unexamined life is not worth living —Socrates

9.       Eureka! Eureka! (I have found it) —Archimedes

10.   Religion is the opium of the people —Karl Marx

11.   Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains —Rousseau

12.   Liberty consists in doing what one desires —John Stuart Mill

13.   The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse Edmund Burke (Speech on the Middlesex Election)

14.   Opportunity makes a thief-—Francis Bacon (Advice to the Earl of Essex)

15.   love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime

Nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time —- John Donne(The Sun Rising)

16.   Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven —John Milton (Paradise Lost)

17.   Poetry is a criticism of life —Matthew Arnold

18.   England is a nation of shopkeepers —Napoleon Bonaparte

19.   He prayeth best, who loveth best

All things both great and small — S. T. Coleridge (The Rime of The Ancient Mariner)

20.   A face that cannot smile is never good — Martial

21.   Admiration is the daughter of ignorance - Benjamin Franklin

22.   Example is better than precept -  S. Smiles

23.   God is on the side of big battalions —George Bernard Shaw

24.   Government of the people , by the people, for the people —Abraham Lincoln

25.   Humanity is the solid foundation of all virtue —Confucius

26.   Life is not life without delight -—-Rabindranath Tagore.

27.   Good face is the best letter of recommendation —Queen Elizabeth

28.   Pain is the out come of sin —Gautama Buddha

29.   Speech great but silence is greater – Thomas CXarlyle

30.   All pray in their distress— William Blake Image)

31.   Water, Water, everywhere

Nor any drop to drink --— Coleridge (The Rime of The Ancient Mariner)

32.   For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love — John Donne (The Canonization)

33.   And miles to go before I sleep — Robert Frost (Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening)

34.   Knowledge is power— Francis Bacon

35.   Know thyself—Socrates

36.   All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand ---*Macbeth

37.   What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man wrote. -- E.M. Forster.

38.   April is the cruelest month. —T. S. Eliot. (The Waste Lind)