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

1.       That is no country of old man, The young in one another's arms, birds in the trees —W. B. Yeats

2.       When the Aprille with his showeres soote the drought of Marche hath perced to the roote.... Gcoffrcy Chaucer

3.       Let us go then you and I,  when the evening is spread out against the sky  - T. S. Eliot

4.       Little lamb, who made thee?  --- William Blake

5.       There is always something left to love --- G. G. Marquez

6.       They were so close to each other that they preferred death to separation.  G. G. Marquez (One Hundred Years of Solitude)

7.       How terrible- to see the truth when the truth is only pain to him who see!  Sophocles (Oedipus Rex)

8.       Sweet Helen. make me immortal with a Kiss. Her lips suck forth my soul: see where it flies, Come, Helen,  Come, give me my soul again.  Christopher Marlowe (Dr. Faustus)

9.       Mischiefs feed./like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.              Ben Jonson ( Volpone)

10.   Riches are in fortune A greater good than wisdom is in nature• — Ben Jonx»n (Volpone)

11.   Good fences make good neighbor'—- Robert Frost (Mending Wall)

12.   If they be two, are two so As stiff min compasses are two; Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if the other do. — John Donne (A Valediction Forbidding Mourning)

13.   Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

Thou art more lovely and temperate : —Shakespeare (Sonnet 18)

14.   For you only a heap of broken images T. S Eliot (The Waste Land)

15.   Winter kept us warm,

Covering Earth in forgetful snow. T. S. Eliot (The Waste Land)

16.   I think we are in rat's alley

Where the dead men lost their bones. —-- T. S. Eliot (The Waste Land)

17.   A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment. ----— Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice) 

18.   It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of good fortune, must be in want of a Wife• . — Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)

19.   In sooth, I know not why I am so sad— Shakespeare (The Merchant of Venice)

20.   Beauties in vain, their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, merit wins the soul. Alexander Pope (The Rape of the Lock)  

21.   'Tis better to have loved and lost

 Than never to have loved at all. -—- Alfred Tennyson (In Memoriam)

22.   Knowledge forbidden?

Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be a sin to know?

Can it be death? —John Milton (Paradise Lost)

23.   For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought. --— Edmund Spenser (The Faerie Queen)

24.   How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height— E. B. Browning

25.   Nothing to be done— Samuel Beckett (Waiting for Godot)

26.    Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. — Confucius.

27.   It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.  Confucius

28.   Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance. — Confucius  

29.   Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. — Confucius

30.   A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle

31.   The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. — Aristotle

32.   There is no friend as loyal as a book. — Ernest Hemingway

33.   But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated. — Ernest Hemingway

34.   Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower. — Steve Jobs             

35.   The secret of getting ahead is getting started. — Mark Twain