English Lit Quotes

#1. I'm older than my sister so I started writing first. I started writing at school. I was always top of my class in composition, essays, English Lit and all of that.

Joan Collins

#2. I accept that he has a past. I wasn't a saint before we met." She slid me a glance. "I wasn't." "You were a nerdy English lit student; you were as close as it gets without beatification.

Chloe Neill

#3. Where's your sketch pad?" I asked.
... "I gave that up," Kay said. "I wasn't very good, so I changed my major."
"To what?"
"To pre-med, then psychology, then English lit, then history."
"I like a woman who knows what she wants."
Kay smiled. "So do I, but I don't know any.

James Ellroy

#4. History class was a forty-minute squirm from which I would emerge unscathed by insight. Down the hall in English Lit, though, there were stories to be had, and it was stories I craved.

Nancy Horan

#5. Even though I loved to write, I never liked English lit. class very much. I think it ruins books when you dissect them too much. I liked my art classes best.

Meg Cabot

#6. The young specialist in English Lit, ... lectured me severely on the fact that in every century people have thought they understood the Universe at last, and in every century they were proved to be wrong. It follows that the one thing we can say about our modern "knowledge" is that it is wrong.

Isaac Asimov

#7. Bashful=Spanish, Miss Gardenia
Doc=Psychology, Mr. Wang
Happy=Chemistry 2, Mr. Durbin
Dopey=English Lit., Mr. Purcell
Dippy=Math, Mrs. Craig
Dumbass=PE, Coach Crater

Lisa McMann

#8. Civilization - a heap of rubble scavenged by scrawny English Lit. vultures.

Malcolm Muggeridge

#9. You know it's funny, when it rains it pours they got money for wars, but can't feed the poor.

Tupac Shakur

#10. Vamps are really only like ten percent fun at any given time. The other ninety percent is largely fretting. And bloodletting.

Chloe Neill

#11. Very private people have mastered the art of telling you little about themselves but doing it in such a way you think you know a lot.

Anonymous

#12. You don't need a happy ending to move onto a happy beginning.

Krystal McLean

#13. This is an evening of wonders, indeed!

Jane Austen

#14. Love is simple, if you allow it to be simple. Julian to Hannah, Take A Chance

Alison Wong

#15. A man needs a purpose for real health.

Sherwood Anderson

#16. When I was in school, in eighth grade, someone recognized something in me. She was an English teacher, and we read a play out loud in class, and she asked me to read one of the roles. I'd never done anything like that before, but something just lit up.

David Morse

#17. Seeing the way his trousers clung to those most English parts.

Seth Grahame-Smith

#18. If you want your film to be instantly green-lit, your first approach is not to go to a relatively unknown English actor. They're not going to throw millions of dollars at you for that.

Martin Freeman

#19. Im gonna try to pay for CLERKS III myself. As much as I love the crowd-funding model, thats an advancement in indie film that belongs to the next generation of artists. I started on my own dime, and if Im allowed, I should finish on my own dime.

Kevin Smith

#20. After you have seasoned your gloves with the blood, sweat and tears of your opponents, all else is anticlimactic.

Brian D'Ambrosio