English Quotations
|Abraham Lincoln
- Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, and for the people.
Alexander Pope
- A little learning is a dangerous thing.
- To err is human; to forgive is divine.
- Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
- A little learning is a dangerous thing.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
- Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers(দীর্ঘস্থায়ী হওয়া).
Archimedes
- Eureka! Eureka! (I have found it).
Benjamin Franklin
- Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
- One should eat to live, not live to eat.
Dryden
- Jealousy is a proof of Love.
Edmund Burke
- Superstition is a religion of feeble minded person.
- The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
Francis Beacon
- Knowledge is power.
- Man fear death as children fear to go in dark.
- Revenge is a kind of wild justice.
- Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed and some few to be chewed and digested.
- Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
- Opportunity makes a thief.
Gandhi
- Self suffering is the truest test of sincerity.
Gladstone
- Justice delayed is justice denied.
- Justice hurried is justice buried.
Hazlitt
- Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
Hobbes
- Knowledge is power
John Keats
- Beauty is truth, truth beauty.
- A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
- Heard melodies are sweet but those unheard are sweeter.
John Milton
- Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity(পরকাল).
- Fame is the last infirmity(দুর্বলতা) of noble minds.
- Better to reign in hell, than serve in the heaven.
J.S.mill
- Liberty consists in doing what one desires.
Karl marks
- Religion is the opium of the people.
Martial
- A face that can’t smile is never good.
M.Arnold
- Poetry is a criticism of life.
Neil Armstrong
- A single step for man; a giant leap for mankind.
Napoleon
- Give me good mothers, and I shall give you a good nation.
- England is a nation of shopkeepers.
- Career open to the talents.
P.B Shelly
- If winter comes can spring be far behind.
- Our sweets songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
- Poets are unacknowledged legislators of the world .
Plato
- Know thyself.
Robert Lynd
- Bad news travels fast.
Rabindranath Tagore
- Life is not life without delight
Rousseau
- Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.
Rudyard Kipling
- East is East and West is West and never the twain(যুগ্ম, জোড়) shall meet.
Samuel Smiles
- Example is better than precept(হিতোপদেশ).
S.T Coleridge
- Water ,water, everywhere ,not a drop drink. -The ancient Mariner.
- He prayeth best who loveth best.
- The unexamined life is not worth living.
- I to die , you to live , which is better only God knows.
Thomas Carlyle
- Speech is great, but silence is greater.
Thomas Kempis
- Man proposes , but God disposes.
Victor Hugo
- Life is flower of which love is honey.
Voltaire
- If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
William Shakespeare
- Cowards die many times before their death. – Julius Caesar
- Brevity is the soul of wit.
- To be or not to be, that is the question. – Hamlet (৩৯তম বিসিএস প্রিলিমিনারি)
- There are more things in haven and earth. – Hamlet
- Frailty Thy name is women.
- Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. বিনা প্রযত্নে খ্যাতি অর্জন প্রসঙ্গে।
- Love is blind.
- All the world’s stage And all the men and women merely players. -As you like it
- Sweet are the uses of adversity. – As you like it. প্রতিকূলতাকে মোকাবেলা করার পর ভাগ্য সুপরসন্ন হওয়া প্রসঙ্গে।
- Life is tale told by an idiot. Full of sound and fury(উত্তেজনা, রাগ, ক্রোধ). Signifying nothing.
- Fair is foul , and Foul is fair . – Mathbeth যাকে ভালো মনে করি, সেই খারাপ, আর যাকে খারাপ ভাবলা সেই শেষে ভালো হল- অনেকটা এরকম অর্থ।
- All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. Mathbeth
William Wordsworth
- The child is the father of a man.