English Literature Quotes

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Although spoken English doesn't obey the rules of written language, a person who doesn't know the rules thoroughly is at a great disadvantage.

The Irishman in English literature may be said to have been born with an apology in his mouth.

The Bible contains some of the most sublime passages in English literature, but is also full of contradictions, inconsistencies, and absurdities.

She'd become an English major for the purest and dullest of reasons: because she loved to read.

English literature is a kind of training in social ethics. English trains you to handle a body of information in a way that is conducive to action.

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

I studied English literature; I took 2 independent religion classes, but I wasn't a religion major really.

I study English literature but my friends are doing psychology and things like that. No one cares about acting there. It's not competitive and it's a nice environment for me.

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.

My brother and I were both good at science, and we were both good at English literature. Either one of us could have gone either way.

English literature is a flying fish.

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

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

I have an English literature degree. I wanted to be the next great American novelist from a very early age, but I put it aside for a while, because I got very realistic at one point.

Quoting, like smoking, ... is a dirty habit to which I am devoted. But then ... I am a professor of English literature; it is an occupational hazard.

My master's degree was in English literature.

As a student in England, I studied French and English literature. I read L'Etranger and the rhythm of the novel felt familiar to me - very African.

If England has any dignity left in the way of literature, she will forget for ever the pitiful antics of English Literature's performing flea.

Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century.

It's an absurd error to put modern English literature in the curriculum. You should read contemporary literature for pleasure or not at all. You shouldn't be taught to monkey with it.

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

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.

I think in general there's no point in going into a field like English literature if you're not going to have fun with it.

The cliché is dead poetry. English, being the language of an imaginative race, abounds in clichés, so that English literature is always in danger of being poisoned by its own secretions.

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.

I feel a bit of an imposter talking about the science. I'm not a scientist, you may be aware. I read English Literature.

In my mind's eye

If Bengali is my mother, then English is my father and friend.

I live on remnants of dreams

The time is ripe for young Indian authors writing in the English language.

Libraries are always bigger on the inside because every book has an entire word inside of it.

But why, " he said with animation, "do the English not read their own great literature?"Victor laughed triumphantly, and said, "Because at school they are made to hate it.

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!

The most difficult thing for a wise woman to do is to pretend to be a foolish one.

وإذا أنْتَ أثْبَتتَ أنَّ الكَلْبَ أوْفى مِنْكَ، فَأنا ما زِلْتُ إنْسانًاAnd if you have proven that dog is more loyal than you, I am still human

Here rests his head upon the lap of earthA youth to fortune and to fame unknown.Fair Science frowned not on his humble birth, And Melancholy marked him for her own.