Famous Quotes
Famous Quotes Of English literature
| Quotes | By/From |
| Beauty is truth, truth beauty. | John Keats, Ode on a Grecian Urn |
| A thing of beauty is a joy forever. | John Keats, Endymion |
| A little learning is a dangerous thing. | Alexander Pope, A Little Learning |
| A single step for man- a giant leap for mankind. | Neil Armstrong |
| Cowards die many times before their death. | William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar |
| Brevity is the soul of wit. | William Shakespeare, Hamlet |
| All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. | William Shakespeare, As You Like It |
| Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them. | William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night |
| To be or not to be, that is the question. | William Shakespeare, Hamlet |
| Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds. | Socrates |
| The unexamined life is not worth living. | Socrates |
| If winter comes, can spring be far behind? | PB Shelley, Ode to the West Wind |
| Knowledge is power (scientia potestas est). | Thomas Hobbes (sometimes attributed to Sir Francis Bacon) |
| No man can be wise on an empty stomach. | George Eliot |
| One should eat to live, not live to eat . | Benjamin Franklin |
| Patriotism is the last refuge of scoundrels. | Samuel Johnson |
| Speech is great but silence is greater. | Thomas Carlyle |
| Government of the people by the people for the people. | Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address |
| Eureka Eureka (I have found it). | Archimedes |
| Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. | Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism (poem) |
| Good nature and good sense must ever join, to err is human , to forgive divine. | Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism |
| Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul. | Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock |
| Man is by nature a political animal. | Aristotle, Politics |
| A good friend is another himself. | Francis Bacon, Of Friendship |
| A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. | Francis Bacon |
| Absence of occupation is not rest, A mind quite vacant is a mind distress. | William Cowper |
| God made the country, man made the town. | William Cowper, God Made the Country |
| They think too little who talk too much. | John Dryden |
| Superstition is a religion of feeble minded person. | Edmund Burke |
| Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise. | Benjamin Franklin |
| Eat to please thyself but dress to please others. | Benjamin Franklin |
| God is on the side of big battalions. | George Bernard Shaw |
| Justice delayed is justice denied. | William Gladstone |
| Help thyself, and God will help thee. | George Herbert |
| Liberty consists in doing what one desires. | John Stuart Mill |
| Religion is the opium of the people. | Karl Marx |
| 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 |
| Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven. | John Milton |
| Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity. | John Milton |
| Man is born free but everywhere he is in chains. | Rousseau |
