Important Quotations of English Literature for Job Exams

Quotations
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Man is by nature is a political Animal. Aristotle
Reading Maketh a full man; Conference a Ready man; Writing an Exact man. Francis Bacon Of Studies
Studies serve for delight, for ornament and for ability. Francis Bacon Of Studies
Some books are to tasted, others to be swallowed and some few to be chewed and digested. Francis Bacon Of Studies
History makes wise man. Francis Bacon Of Studies
A Mixture of lie does ever add pleasure. Francis Bacon Of Studies
It is impossible to love and to be wise. Francis Bacon Of Truth
Oppurtunites makes of thief. Francis Bacon Of Love
Wives are young men's mistress, companies for middle age and old men's nurses. Francis Bacon Of marriage and Single Life
A good friend is another himself. Francis Bacon Of Friendship
Revenge is a kind of wild justice. Francis Bacon Of Revenge
Unmarried men are best friend, best master, best servants but not always best subjects. Francis Bacon Of marriage and Single Life
Come live with me and be my love, and we will all the pleasures prove. Christopher Marlowe Passionate Shepherd to his Love
Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships, And burnt the topless towers of ilium? Christopher Marlowe Doctor Faustus
Sweet Helen' make me immortal with a kiss. Christopher Marlowe Doctor Faustus
Pluck up your hearts, since fate still rests out friend. ( Pluck up = to become more cheerful) Christopher Marlowe Doctor Faustus
Hell is just a frame of mind. (Hell ⇨ নরক) Christopher Marlowe Doctor Faustus
He that loves pleasure must for pleasure fall. Christopher Marlowe Doctor Faustus
To be or not to be that is the Question. William Shakespeare Hamlet
Frailty thy name is woman. ( Thy ⇨ তোমার) William Shakespeare Hamlet
Brevity is the soul of wit. (Wit ⇨ বুদ্ধি) William Shakespeare Hamlet (Polonius)
There are nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.  William Shakespeare Hamlet (Hamlet) 
Why, then, ’tis none to you, for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. To me it is a prison. William Shakespeare Hamlet (Hamlet)
Neither a borrower nor a lender; for loan oft loses both itself and friend. William Shakespeare Hamlet (Polonius)
When sorrows comes, they come not single spices but in battalions William Shakespeare Hamlet (Claudius)
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy. William Shakespeare Hamlet (Hamlet)
Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits. William Shakespeare Two Gentle of verona
All the world's a stage and all the men and women merely players. They have their exists and their entrance and each man in the time plays many parts. William Shakespeare As You like it (Jacks)
Sweet are the uses of adversity. William Shakespeare As You like it (Duke Frederic)
All the perfumes of Arabia wil not sweeten this little hand. William Shakespeare Macbeth (Lady Macbeth)
Fair is foul and foul is fair. William Shakespeare Macbeth (Witches)
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player. William Shakespeare Macbeth (Mackbeth-Marshal of King of Scotland, Duncan)
Cowards die many times before their death. But the valiant never taste of death but once. William Shakespeare Julius Caesar (Kalpurnia to Julius Caesar)
Veni, vidi, vici (I came, I Saw, I conquered) William Shakespeare Julius Caesar (Julius Caesar)
Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them. William Shakespeare Twelfth Night
Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind. William Shakespeare Mid Summer Night's Dream
What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet (Juliet)
Deny thy father and refuse thy name. (Thy = Your) William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet (Juliet)
Good Night, Good Night! Parties is such sweet sorrow that I shall say good night till be morrow. (Morrow ⇨ আগামীকাল)  William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet (Juliet)
Tempt not a desperate man (Tempt = প্রলোভন/ Desperate = হতাশ করা) William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet (Romeo)
For God's sake hold your tongue and let me love. (Sake ⇨ অভিপ্রায়, হেতু) John Donne The Canonoization
For love, all love of other sights controls / And makes one little room, an everywhere. John Donne The Good morrow
If our two loves be one, or thou and I/ Love so alike, that none do slacken, none can die. (Thou ⇨তুমি/ Alike ⇨ একইভাবে, Slacken ⇨ হ্রাস পাওয়া) John Donne The Good Morrow
If they be two, they are two so/ as stiff twin compasses are two,/ They soul the fixed foot, makes no show/ to move, but doth, if the other do. (stiff ⇨ কঠিন/ Soul ⇨ আত্মা/ Doth ⇨ তাড়না) John Donne A Valediction: Forbidding Mouring
Fair Daffodils, we weep to see > You haste away so soon; (Weep = ক্রন্দন করা/ Haste away ⇨ চলে যাওয়া) Robert herrick To Daffodils
Better to reign in hell than serve in Heaven. (Hell ⇨ নরক) John Milton Paradise Lost
Justify the ways of God to men. John Milton Paradise Lost  এর Theme
Childhood shows the man, as morning shows the days John Milton Paradise Regained
Had we but would enough, and time > This coyness lady were no crime. (Coyness = লাজুক) Andrew Marvell To his Coy Mistress
But of my back I always hear/ Times winged chariot hurrying near/ And yonder all before us lye/ Deserts of vast eternity. Andrew Marvell To his Coy Mistress
The grave's fine and private place/ But none I think do their embrace. Andrew Marvell To his Coy Mistress
In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart. John Bunynan Pilgrim's Progress
To vindicate the ways of God to man. (Vindicate =Prove) Alexander Pope An Essay on Man কবিতার Theme
A Little learning is a dangerous thing. Alexander Pope
To err is human, forgive is divine. (Forgive = ক্ষমা করা) (Divine = স্বর্গীয়) Alexander Pope
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. Alexander Pope
Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise. Benjamin Franklin
Honesty is the best policy. Benjamin Franklin
Admiration is the daughter of ignorance. Benjamin Franklin
I intended to have carried them with me to my grave. Henry Fielding Tom Jones (নায়িকা সোফিয়া)
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen and waste its sweetness on the desert air. Thomas Gray Elegy written in a country churchyard
I wandered lonely as a cloud William Wordsworth Daffodils
A thing of beauty gives us double pleasure. William Wordsworth Daffodils কবিতার Theme
Nature has a healing power to sorrow stricken heart. William Wordsworth Daffodils কবিতার Theme
A winning power, beyond all other power. William Wordsworth Tintern Abbey কবিতার Theme (Abbey = মঠ)
Nature never did betray the heart that loved her. (Betray = বিশ্বাসঘাতকতা করা) William Wordsworth Tintern Abbey (William wordsworth to Dorothy)
The child is father of the man. (My hearts Leaps Up when I Behold) William Wordsworth
When all at once I saw a crowd, a host of golden daffodils. William Wordsworth The daffodils
Ten thousands saw I at a glance > Tossing their heads in sprightly dance. ( Tossing =উর্ধ্বে নিক্ষেপণ) (Sprightly = প্রাণবন্ত) William Wordsworth The daffodils
They flash upon that inward eye/ Which is the bliss of solitude. William Wordsworth The daffodils
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. (Forgetting = বিস্মরণ) William Wordsworth
Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings. William Wordsworth Definition of Lyrical Ballad
The music in my heart I bore > Long after it was heard no more. (Bore = বিরক্ত) William Wordsworth The Solitary Reaper
Imagination is the soul of poetic genious. (Soul = আত্মা) S.T. Coleridge Biographia Literaria
Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge. S.T. Coleridge Biographia Literaria
Alone, alone, all, all alone > Alone on a wide, wide sea. S.T. Coleridge The Rime of Ancient Mariner
Water, water, everywhere > Nor any drop to drink. S.T. Coleridge The Rime of Ancient Mariner
He prayeth best, who loved best > All things both great and small. S.T. Coleridge The Rime of Ancient Mariner
Man's conscience is the oracle of God. (Oracle = দৈববাণী) Lord Byron Don Juan
Sweet is revenge-especially to women. (Revenge = প্রতিশোধ) Lord Byron Don Juan
Man's love is of man's life a thing apart. Tis woman's whole existence. (Tis⇨ Truth) Lord Byron Don Juan
I loved, love you, for his love have lost, state, station, heaven, mankind's my own esteem. (Esteem = শ্রদ্ধা) Lord Byron Don Juan
All thing of great and small will perish. (Perish = বিনষ্ট হওয়া) Percy Bysshe Shelly Ozaymandias কবিতার Theme
If winter comes, can spring be far behind? Percy Bysshe Shelly Ode to the West Wind (West wind ⇨ পশ্চিমা বাতাস)
Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. Percy Bysshe Shelly To a Skylark (Skylark ⇨ সাদা রঙের পাখী)
We look before and after, and pine for what is not. (Pine = অনুশোচনা করা) Percy Bysshe Shelly To a Skylark
Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. (Unackownledged = অস্বীকৃত) (Legislator = আইনপ্রণেতা) Percy Bysshe Shelly A Defense of Poetry (
I met a traveller from an anique land  Percy Bysshe Shelly Ozaymandias
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone (Trunk = দেহ / Trunkless legs ⇨ বিচ্চিন্ন পা)
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, (Shattered visage ⇨ চূর্ণবিচূর্ণ মুখমণ্ডল/ frown ⇨ ভ্রূকুটি)
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, (Wrinkled lip ⇨ ভাজপড়া ঠোট/ sneer of cold command ⇨ শান্ত আদেশের অবজ্ঞাসূচক চাহনি)
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my worjs, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains.. Round the decay
Of thal colossak wreck, boundless and hare
The lone and level sands strectch far away.
A thing of beauty is a joy for ever. John Keats Endymion
Beauty is truth, truth is beauty. John Keats Ode on a Grecian Urn (সমাধি)
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter. John Keats Ode on a Grecian Urn
Where are the songs of Spring? Aye, where are they? > Think not of them, thou hast thy music too. (Aye= চিরকাল, Thou= তুমি, Hast=  John Keats Ode to Autumn
The old order changeth, yielding place to new Lord Alfred Tennyson Mort d' Arthur
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will, To strive, to seek, to find and not to yield's (strive ⇨ চেষ্টা করা, সংগ্রাম করা) Lord Alfred Tennyson Ulesses
Time held me green and dying > Though I sang in my chains like the sea. Dylan Thomas Fern Hill
Charity begins at home and justice begins next door. (Charity = উদারতা) Charles Dickens Great Expectation
Millions are condemned to a stiller doom than mine and millions are in silent revolt against their lot. (Condemned = নিন্দিত) (Stiller = নিশ্চল) (Doom = নিয়তি) Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre
The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles. Karl Marx
Man make their own history. Karl Marx
Religion is opium to the people. Karl Marx
Poetry is at bottom a criticism of life. Mathew Arnold The study of poetry
Even science will appear incomplete without poetry. Mathew Arnold The study of poetry
Life is not an exact science, it is an art. Samuel Butler
Self preservation is the first law nature. Samuel Butler
God was satisfied with his own work and that is fatal. (Fatal = মারাত্মক) Samuel Butler
The greater the sinner, the greater the saint. (Sinner = পাপী) (Saint = সাধু) Thomas Hardy Tess of the D'urbervilles
Crime never goes without punishment. Fyodor Dostoyevsky Crime and Punishment
Nine soldiers out of ten are born fools. G.B Shaw Arms and the Man
It is our duty to live as long as we can. G.B Shaw Arms and the Man
There are two tragedies in life, one is not to get your heart's desire, other is to get it. G.B Shaw Man and Superman
All Changed, changed utterly > A terrible beauty is born. (দারুণভাবে) William Butler Yeats
Home is the place where, when you have to go there. They have to take you in. Robert Frost The Death of the Hired man
Two roads diversed in a yellow wood, > And sorry I could not travel both. Robert Frost The Road not Taken
The woods are lovely , dark and deep but I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep. Robert Frost
Good fences make good neighbours. Robert Frost
God has put us on earth to love our neighbors and to show it. Edward Morgan Forster A Passage to India
We may hate another but we hate you most. ⇨ Edward Morgan Forster (A Passage to India) Edward Morgan Forster A Passage to India
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the World. ⇨ Nelson Mandela Nelson Mendela
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. ⇨ Martin Luther King Martin Luther King
Imagination is more important than Knowledge. ⇨ Albert Einstein Albert Einstein
Justice is truth in action. ⇨ Benjamin Disraeli Benjamin Disraeli

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