Important Quotations for NET/SET exams | English Literature
Important Quotations from English Literature for UGC NET exam| Most expected quotes from English Literature to be asked in NET exam
Important Quotations from Shakespeare's Works:
Quotations from William Shakespeare's King Lear:
I am a man more sinned against that sinning.
__King Lear
Nothing will come of nothing.
_____ King Lear to Cordelia
As flies to wanton boys we are to gods. They kill us for their sport.
___ Gloucester, in King Lear
When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.
_____ King Lear
Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never die but once.
___Julius Ceaser
All's well that ends well.
__Twelfth Night
If music be the food of love then play on.
__Twelfth Night
All the world's a stage; And the the men and women are merely players.
___As You Like it
Love is merely a madness.
__ As You Like it
Fair is foul and foul is fair.
__ Three witches, Macbeth
Life is a tale, told by an idiot.
__ Macbeth
Life's but a walking shadow.
__Macbeth
Here is still the smell of blood. All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.
__ Lady Macbeth
Quotations from Shakespeare's "Merchant of Venice":
All that glitters is not gold.
___Price Morocco says this to Portia in Shakespeare's "Merchant of Venice"
Love is blind, lovers cannot see.
__Jesica, Merchant of Venice
Important Quotations/lines | William Wordsworth:
Child is the father of the man.
__My Heart Leaps up
Poetry is the breath and finer sprit of knowledge.
_Preface to Lyrical Ballads
Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.
____Preface to Lyrical Ballads, Wordsworth
Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.
___Tintern Abbey by Wordsworth
The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more.
__The Solitary Reaper by Wordsworth
Important Quotations|S. T. Coleridge :
Water, water, every where; nor any drop to drink.
__The Rime of Ancient Mariner
Alone, alone, all, all alone, alone on wide, wide sea.
__The Rime of Ancient Mariner
He prayeth best who loveth best; All things both great and small.
__The Rime of Ancient Mariner
Important Quotations from John Keats' poetry:
A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
__Endymion, Book-1
Beuty is truth; truth beauty.
__Ode on a Grecian Urn
Most important Quotations|P. B. Shelley :
If winter comes can spring be far behind.
__Ode to the West Wind
Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.
Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
__ A Defence of Poetry
Quotations from Alexander Pope's literary works:
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
A little learning is a dangerous thing.
To err is human, to forgive is devine.
__An essay on Criticism
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