Top 44 English Literature Best Quotes

#1. I nearly fell asleep over Dickens in English. Mind you, he's snoozeworthy at the best of times.

Jo Walton

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#2. People think I'm selling feminism in my books, but what I'm really doing is writing advertising copy for expensive private colleges that most women can't afford anyway. Oh, and try to find a job with a major in English literature. No luck? Joke's on you, sucker!

Mary Gordon

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#3. I give pleasure to you. Do not interfere..." #MilanoVeneziani. #ItalianPassion

Olga Goa

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#4. I graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with an English literature degree and travelled for a year before going to work.

Natalie Massenet

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#5. 'Jane Eyre,' when I think of that book, it conjures up the best moments of college English courses. Literature is extraordinary, especially when you have a good professor.

Edward P. Jones

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#6. I loved English literature - if didn't it would have been hard - but I had to learn it myself. I remembered ways to repeat words, to put more emphasis on certain lines.

Benjamin Clementine

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#7. I soon realized that a student of English literature who does not know the Bible does not understand a good deal of what is going on in what he reads: the most conscientious student will be continually misconstruing the implications, even the meaning.

Northrop Frye

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#8. And 'tis a kind of good deed to say well:
And yet words are no deeds.
King Henry VIII. Act 3, Scene 2

William Shakespeare

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#9. I have yet to meet an English teacher who assigned a book to damage a kid.

Pat Conroy

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#10. Nor shall this peace sleep with her; but as when
The bird of wonder dies, the maiden phoenix,
Her ashes new-create another heir
As great in admiration as herself.

William Shakespeare

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#11. English literature is a flying fish.

E. M. Forster

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#12. as the descendants of the Normans finally amalgamated with the English natives, the Anglo-Saxon language reasserted itself; but in its poverty it had to borrow hundreds of French words (literary, intellectual, and cultural) before it could become the language of literature.

Richard A. LaFleur

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#13. The course of English Literature would have been decidedly different had Mr. Wordsworth owned a power mower, she thought.

Harper Lee

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#14. I went to study English for two reasons. Principally because when I was in university, studying drama wasn't considered an option. You couldn't get a degree course for it. And so many plays and things that I was interested in landed themselves in a broader spectrum of literature.

James Callis

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#15. I have read like a man on fire my whole life because the genius of English teachers touched me with the dazzling beauty of language.

Pat Conroy

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#16. Frieda, you despise English music. You know you do. And English art. And English literature, except Shakespeare, and he's a German.

E. M. Forster

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#17. English dramatic literature is, of course, dominated by Shakespeare; and it is almost inevitable that an English reader should measure the value of other poetic drama by the standards which Shakespeare has already implanted in his mind.

Lytton Strachey

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#18. Remember, I have a Ph.D. in English literature.

Henry Louis Gates

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#19. I left school at 16 but I wish I'd gone to university - I think I would have studied English literature. I had a knack for that. But I don't think you have the kind of wisdom at 16 to make that decision.

Brendan Coyle

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#20. While thought exists, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living.
Cyril Connolly (English critic and editor, 1903-1974)

Cyril Connolly

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#21. I often think that eventually I'd love to do some papers ... my correspondence if life calms down a bit, but I think I'd do history or English literature ... I've had enough of journos.

Brooke Fraser

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#22. With English literature, if you do a bit of shonky spelling, no one dies, but if you're half-way through a maths calculation and you stick in an extra zero, everything just crashes into the ravine.

Mark Haddon

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#23. If circumstances should make it impossible (temporarily, I hope) for me to be a Russian writer, perhaps I shall be able, like the Pole Joseph Conrad, to become for a time an English writer ... ("Letter To Stalin")

Yevgeny Zamyatin

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#24. Now why should that man have fainted? But he did,and right across my path by the wall, so that I had to creep over him every time!

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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#25. The wise words of a friend and guide rang in my head. 'How would you distinguish a true servant of God from a traitor? ... You should take especial notice of how a person speaks, not of other things, but of God.

Harry Blamires

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#26. When I spoke to her in Spanish I was not translating, I was not thinking my thoughts in English first, but I was nevertheless outside the language I was speaking, building simple sentences with the blocks I'd memorized, not communicating through a fluid medium.

Ben Lerner

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#27. School was rough for me. I was a good student in middle school, but high school wasn't so fun. I still pulled through, though! I excelled in art, fashion, history and English literature - anything creative. Math and science I struggled a bit more in.

India De Beaufort

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#28. My old English buddy, John Rackham, wrote and told me what made science fiction different from all other kinds of literature - science fiction is written according to the science fiction method.

Frederik Pohl

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#29. Modern poetry, for me, began not in English at all but in Spanish, in the poems of Lorca.

W.S. Merwin

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#30. I often imagine that the longer he studies English literature the more the Japanese student must be astonished at the extraordinary predominance given to the passion of love both in fiction and in poetry.

Lafcadio Hearn

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#31. I went to graduate school with zero expectation. I kind of backed into it. I wanted to go back to school because I felt gaps in my literary background. I studied mostly twentieth-century English literature in college, so I thought, 'Maybe I'll go back for my writing.'

Susan Minot

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#32. In my teens, I developed a passionate idolatry for a teacher of English literature. I wanted to do something that he would approve of more, so I thought I should be some sort of a scholar.

Trevor Nunn

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#33. I did best when I had least truth for my subjects.

John Donne

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#34. The methodologies of examining hip hop are borrowed from sociology, politics, religion, economics, urban studies, journalism, communications theory, American studies, transatlantic studies, black studies, history, musicology, comparative literature, English, linguistics, and other disciplines.

Michael Eric Dyson

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#35. My mother's father taught English literature. When I was about ten or eleven, I could recite Macaulay's 'Lays of Ancient Rome.' While other kids were playing pedestrian war games, I'd be Horatius keeping the bridge.

Bernie Taupin

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#36. I loathe it when they [English teachers] are bullied by no-nothing parents or cowardly school boards.

Pat Conroy

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#37. In my mind's eye

William Shakespeare

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#38. I'm using my degree. You know, I studied English and American literature in college, and now I'm an American poet.

Eileen Myles

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#39. I don't only write about English literature; I also write about chaos theory and ... ants. I can understand ants.

A.S. Byatt

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#40. The central symbol for Canada-and this based on numerous instances of its occurrence in both English and French Canadian literature-is undoubtedly Survival, la Survivance.

Margaret Atwood

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#41. At the age of 12 I won the school prize for Best English Essay. The prize was a copy of Somerset Maugham's 'Introduction To Modern English And American Literature.' To this day I keep it on the shelf between my collection of Forester's works and the little urn that contains my mother's ashes.

Wilbur Smith

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#42. There's a history of English literature where the best boils to the top, and Jane Austen stands right at the top of that.

JJ Feild

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#43. When I was at school, I was terrible at algebra and arithmetic, but I was always the best at English and literature. And acting, of course.

Joan Collins

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#44. The best books are not read even by those who are called good readers. What does our Concord culture amount to? There is in this town, with a very few exceptions, no taste for the best or for very good books even in English literature, whose words all can read and spell.

Henry David Thoreau

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