The best quotes in English Literatue

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1. "That's one small step for men - a giant leap for mankind"
- Neil Armstrong

2. "Beauty is truth, truth beauty"
- Keats

3. "I have a dream that one day this nation will live out the true meaning of its creed that all men are created equal"
- Martin Luther King

4. "The best portion of a good man's life: his little nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love"
-William Wordsworth

5. "Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of knowledge"
- William Wordsworth

6. "Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting..."
- William Wordsworth

7. "Come forth into the light of things, Let nature be your teacher"
- William Wordsworth

8. ‘Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.’
-William Wordsworth

9. "When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions"
- Shakespeare (Hamlet)

10. "To be, or not to be, that is the question"
- William Shakespeare (Play Hamlet-1602)

11. “I must be cruel, only to be kind: Thus bad begins, worst remains behind.”
-W. Shakespeare (Hamlet)

12. "Brevity is the soul of wit"
- William Shakespeare (Hamlet)

13. "True is that we have seen better days (As u like it)"
- Shakespeare

14. ‘All the world’s stage and all the men and women merely players.’
-William Shakespeare (As You Like It)

15. ‘When we are born, we cry, that we come to this great stage of fools.’
-W. Shakespeare (As You Like It)

16. "Nature teaches beasts to know their friends"
- William Shakespeare

17. "The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool"
- Shakespeare

18. "What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet"
- Shakespeare {Romeo and Juliet}

19. "The miserable have no other medicine but only hope"
- Shakespeare (measure for measure)

20. "The common curse of mankind, - folly and ignorance"
- Shakespeare (Troilus and Cressida)

21. "If winter comes, can spring be far behind?"
- P. B. Shelley (Ode to the west wind)

22. "Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought"
- P. B. Shelly (To a skylark)

23. ‘Beauty is truth, truth is beauty’
-John Keats (Ode on a Grecian Urn)

24. ‘Heard melodies are sweet but those unheard are sweeter’
-John Keats (Ode on a Grecian Urn)

25. ‘And I have promise to keepAnd miles to go before I sleep’
- Robert Frost (Stopping by Wood on a Snowing Evening)

26 ‘Good fences make good neighbours’
-Robert Frost (Mending Wall)



Following are 10 quotes by the scientist, author and former President A. P. J. Abdul Kalam:

1.You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

2.Excellence is a continuous process and not an accident.

3.Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.

4.Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

5.We will be remembered only if we give to our younger generation a prosperous and safe India, resulting out of economic prosperity coupled with civilizational heritage.

6.Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

7.Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.

8.Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.

9.If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.

10.My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.

Important

1. “Be the change you wish to see in the world.”
– Misattributed to Mahatma Gandhi

2. “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.”
– Misattributed to Albert Einstein
3. “Don’t walk behind me: I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me: I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.”
– Misattributed to Albert Camus

4. “Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.”
– Misattributed to Mark Twain (and several others)

5. “And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
– Misattributed to Friedrich Nietzsche

6. “Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.”
– Misattributed to Dr. Seuss

7. “Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.”
– Misattributed to Dr. Seuss

8. “Well behaved women rarely make history.”
– Misattributed to Marilyn Monroe

9. “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
– Misattributed to Oscar Wilde


Less important

1. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow
Just walk beside me and be my friend.
– Misattributed Albert Camus

2 Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.”
– Misattributed to Dr. Seuss

3. “Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.”
– Misattributed to Mark Twain

4. You are the music while the music lasts.
— T. S. Eliot

5. A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.
— Franz Kafka

6. A cage went in search of a bird.
— Franz Kafka

7. I suppose if we couldn’t laugh at things that don’t make sense, we couldn’t react to a lot of life.
— Bill Watterson, Calvin And Hobbes

8. I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.
— Jack Kerouac

9. Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.
— Kurt Vonnegut

10. Life begins on the other side of despair.
— Jean-Paul Sartre

11. He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
— Friedrich Nietzsche

12. The artist’s job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence.
— Woody Allen

13. I took a test in Existentialism. I left all the answers blank and got 100.
— Woody Allen

14. It’s only after you’ve lost everything, that you’re free to do anything.
— Tyler Durden

15. For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
— Carl Sagan

16. The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
— Carl Sagan

17. Man is nothing else but that which he makes of himself.
— Jean-Paul Sartre

18. It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
— Desiderius Erasmus

19. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
— Samuel Beckett

20. Dying is not romantic, and death is not a game which will soon be over.
— Guildenstern

21. We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.
— Chuck Palahniuk

22. Your birth is a mistake you’ll spend your whole life trying to correct.
— Chuck Palahniuk

23. We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
— Oscar Wilde

24. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

25. The only journey is the one within.
— Rainer Maria Rilke

26. Man cannot endure his own littleness unless he can translate it into meaningfulness on the largest possible level.

— Ernest Becker

27. Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?
— Martin Heidegger

28. But how could you live and have no story to tell?
— Fyodor Dostoevsky

29. The point is there ain’t no point.
— Cormac Mccarthy

30. Life … is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
— William Shakespeare

31. However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.
— Stanley Kubrick

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