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.