FAMOUS LINES OF ENGLISH WRITERS
“Life is a tragedy to those who feel and a comedy to those who think.”
- Horace Walpole
“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
" Child is the father of a man"
— William Wordsworth
"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 considered 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 to drink.”
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“Sweet are the uses of adversity”
— Shakespeare
“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 feeble minded person”
— Edmund Burke
“Practice is bitter but its fruit is sweet”
— Russet
"The man who does not read books has no advantage over the man that cannot 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
"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
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