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One of the best characters in English literature. 
English literature is a kind of training in social ethics. English trains you to handle a body of in... 
It is no exaggeration to say that the English Bible is, next to Shakespeare, the greatest work in En... 
There is no greater glory than to die for love. 
Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nasti... 
Alone. Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a ca... 
The cliche is dead poetry. English, being the language of an imaginative race, abounds in cliches, s... 
I still had this idea that there was a whole world of marvelous golden people somewhere, as far ahea... 
Cure" is one of the most precious words in the English language. It's a short word. A clean and simp... 
I mean the word proof not in the sense of the lawyers, who set two half proofs equal to a whole one,... 
Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. ... 
No one should let yesterday use up too much of today. Easy to say, hard to live. 
It may be the kind where, at the age of thirty, you sit in some bar hating everybody who comes in lo... 
Beautify your breath – beautify your life. 
I finally returned to Iran in 1979, when I got my degree in English and American literature, and sta... 
My master's degree was in English literature. 
Clay in the hands of a good potter suffers so many good turns, but in the end, we see its real and t... 
It is commonly asserted and accepted that Paradise Lost is among the two or three greatest English p... 
I was an English major in college, and then I went to graduate school in English at the University o... 
Occasionally I write a small piece or the odd lecture in English, and I teach in English, but my fic... 
It was the English word she used. It was in English that the past was unilateral; in Bengali, the wo... 
The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suff... 
How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g... 
I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the soun... 
In Hong Kong, I read Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s “Love in the Time of Cholera”, in which the hero... 
I accept the fact that there is always a way out in every situation we find ourselves but, until we ... 
To become an American citizen, we require people to read, write and speak in English. That is to hel... 
Propose to any Englishman any principle or instrument, however admirable, and you will observe that ... 
There was a long pause. "Um, I'm afraid I don't know the word in English."
Life begins somewhere and ends somewhere with time but to get somewhere with the life you have depen... 
Writing in English was a major challenge. I didn't want other songwriters to write for me. I wanted ... 
The secret of my success is a two word answer: Know people. 
I had the impression from reading English literature that British women were great beauties, and I o... 
"Reality" is the only word in the English language that should always be used in quotes. 
The English, the plain English, of the politest address of a gentleman to a lady is, I am now, dear ... 
Writing in English was a major challenge. I didn't want other songwriters to write for me. I wan... 
Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in ... 
We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives. 
How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine."
In the French language, there is a great gulf between prose and poetry; in English, there is hardly ... 
Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over. 
If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath. 
I don't only write about English literature; I also write about chaos theory and... ants. I can ... 
I believe it is customary to get get one's washing over first in baths and bask afterwards; personal... 
If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of ... 
I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading. 
I studied English literature in university, and then I went straight into radio. 
Between 1910 and 1950 approximately 350 lives of Jesus were published in the English language alone. 
Those of us who write spend our entire lives in an endless English class. 
I think in English history a very interesting character is John Lilburne. Very interesting character... 
I have always wished the present to resemble memory: because the present can be flat at times, and b... 
The world of literature has everything in it, and it refuses to leave 
She'd become an English major for the purest and dullest of reasons: because she loved to read. 
Isn't language loss a good thing, because fewer languages mean easier communication among the world'... 
Duty then is the sublimest word in the English language. You should do your duty in all things. You ... 
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The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself. 
Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the America... 
He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing ... 
Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame. 
Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within. 
Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need... 
The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him. 
I have found that if you love life, life will love you back. 
If there is anything in the world that can really be called a mans property, it is surely that which... 
Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back. 
Cheerfulness, sir, is the principle ingredient in the composition of health. 
I think the inflation prospects for the U.S. over the next five or six, seven years, are quite serio... 
Builders eventually took advantage of the look of modernism to build cheaply and carelessly. 
After you've read a novel, you only retain a vague memory of its contents. You remember the atmo... 
The commonest form, one of the most often neglected, and the safest opportunity for the average man ... 
His insomnia was so bad, he couldn't sleep during office hours. 
If you do big things they print your face, and if you do little things they print only your thumbs 
À l'aurore, armés d'une ardente patience, nous entrerons aux splendides Villes. 
What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world. 
Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, ... 
What we ask of him is, that he should find out for us more than we can find out for ourselves. He mu... 
The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always. 
Of course, a sign doesn't mean anything unless you know how to interpret it. 
Nobody before the Pythagorean had thought that mathematical relations held the secret of the univers... 
I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own. 
The definition of the individual was: a multitude of one million divided by one million. 
Laughter and weeping, the Greek masks of comedy and tragedy, mark the extremes of a continuous spect... 
The omission of an expected conjunction is called an asyndeton. Caesar is supposed to have sa... 
Style, is like a frog: you can dissect the thing, but it somehow dies in the process. 
Conscience has nothing to do as lawgiver or judge; but is a witness against me if I do wrong, and wh... 