The Quotations and Facts of the Different Authors in English Literature

The Main Quotation of the Different Authors in English Literature
1. “Speak to me why do you never speak”- TS Eliot
2. “The world is not the reasonable place where we are led to believe”
3. “All Power corrupts one had to live with “darkness of man’s heart”- These Quotations has been taken from Lord of the flies
4. “True wit is nature to advantage dressed what oft was thought, but never so well expressed”- Pope- Manner of expression
5. “Come what may he will be one of our greatest poets” about GM Hopkins
6. “O lady: we receive but what we give and in our life alone does nature live” Coleridge
7. “The term applies descriptions, not of the true appearances of things to us but of the extraordinary appearances”
8. Pathetic Fallacy
9. “English Bards and Scotch Reviewers” Byron, it was said about contemporary literary scene and a satire against the Edinburgh Review
10. “For men may come and men may go but I go on forever” The Brook
11. Sensation novel, Mystery story are associated with Wikie Collins
12. “Arts Longa, Vita Briers” Art is long and time is fleeting” Longfellow
13. The work of a queasy undergraduate scratching his pimples: About Ulyses by James Joyce: Virgina Wolfe
14. “A Hyena in Petticoats”- Marry Wollstonecraft
15. “Left Book Club: was founded by Victor Golding
16. “First Nobel Prize for literature was started in 1900
17. “A Beginning” Don Moraes in the age of 20 and awarded by Houthorndon prize
18. “But thoughts the slave of life, Life time’s fool and that makes survey of the entire world must have a stop” Macbeth
19. “Next to, of course God America I Love you land of pilgrims and so forth Oh!” TS Eliot
20. “Against the bridal day, which was not so long? Sweet Thames! Run softly, till I end my song” Prothela Mion
21. An Epic Poetry is “As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines” Macaulay
22. “The best luck all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity” Second Coming –WB Yeats
23. “The errors of evaluating a poem by its emotional effect”-Effective Fallacy
24. “The Waste Land” longest poem in the English language because of its profundity, Perplexity and density of poetic allusions, myths and meaning” Ezra Pound
25. “Rich disorganization” about Waste Land who said-FR Leavis
26. Dryden says, “Donne affects the metaphysic” in which book? –Discourse of Satire.
27. “if pope be not a poet, where is poetry found?”- Dr.Johnson
28. “Mad, bad and dangerous to know” about Byron –Lady Caroline lamb
29. Attribution of human capacities to natural objects and similar to perfection- Pathetic Fallacy
30. Romanticism “Addition of strangeness to beauty” Walter Pater
31. “Replaced the academic style, return to the truthfulness and simplicity, drawing from the Italian paintings before the time of Raphael” –Pre Raphaelities
32. “Poor Matth He is gone to heaven no doubt but he went like God”- RL Stevention about Matthew Arnold
33.
“We poets in our youth begin in gladness but there of come in the end, despondency and madness” Resolution and Independence
34. “An ineffectual angel beating in the void his luminous wing in vain” About Shelley-Matthew Arnold
35. When you shall these unlucky deeds relate speak of me as I’m nothing extenuate. Nor set down aughtin malice then must you speak. Of one that loved not wisely, but too well” Othello
36. “The unity of a work of art is achieved neither through the unity of character nor unity of action, but through unity of the author’s moral position” Flaubert
37. “A hen is only an egg’s way of making another egg”-Samuel Butler
38. “An essay is a loose sally of the mind an irregular indigested piece not a regular or orderly composition”- Dr. Jonson
39. “It is a trite but true observation that examples work more forcibly on the mind than percepts” in the beginning of the book – Joseph Andrews
40. “A man proud, moody cynical, with defiance and misery a scorners”-Macaulay about Byronic hero
41. “Pope can fix in one couplet more sense than I can do in six” Jonathan Swift
42. The true prologue to the Renaissance is – Utopia
43. “if music be the food of love , play on”- Twelfth Night
44. “I write plays with the deliberate purpose to convert the nation to my opinion” GB Shaw
45. “A selection of varieties of work” Pastiche
46. “My mental condition presented itself to me this way. My life is stupid and spiteful joke that someone has played on me” The Confession

47. “Yet if we could scorn
Hate, and pride and fear
Note to shed a tear
I know not how thy joy we ever
Should come near” Ode to Skylark by Shelley
48. Only Prose work of Edmund Spenser is- View of the state of Ireland
49. Full fathom five thy father lies of his bones are corals made, these are pearls that were his eyes but do suffer a sea change-  are from the Shakespearean play Tempest
50. “The splendid Shilling”-John Philip and “Paradise Lost” Milton are the parodies
51. “My love is like a red red roses”-Robur Burns
52. Anthony Trollope satirise the book in his “The Warden”- Both Carlyle and Dickens
53. Story of the Country Mouse by Matthew Prior and The hind and Pnther by Dryden are the parody
54. “A man would be a fool to deliberately stand up to be shot at” in the last novel of  Hardy
55. “Learn hence for  ancient rule a just esteem to copy nature is to copy them” spirit of these line is Imitation of the ancients
56. The Neoclassical ideal was founded especially on: Horace’s Ars Poetica
57. “Gentleman prefer blondes”- Anita Loos
58. All animals are equal but some animals are more equal” in Animal Farm by George Orwell
59. “A heavy weight of hours has chained and bowed. One too like thee, tamales and swift and proud”- Shelley
60. “And there I shut her wild eyes with kisses four”-La Belle Dame Sans Merci
61. “I’m afraid there’s many a spectacled sod prefers the British Museum to God?”- WH Auden
62. The Lady is not for Burning- Christopher Fry
63. Only foreign honorary fellow at the Sahitya Akademy- Joseph Brodsky
64. Stiff in opinion always in the wrong, was everything by stars and nothing long – John Dryden
65. Originator of Picaresque Novel: Thomas Nash
66. Caterpillars of the commonwealth and father lies: Stephen Gosson from the School of Abuse
67. A Classicist in literature, royalist in politics and Anglo-catholic in religion-TS Eliot
68. I  believe that all novel deal with character and that it is to express character not to speech doctrines sing songs or celebrates the glories of the British Empire” Virginia Woolfe
69. Oxford Movement: Cardinal newman , John Kable , John Henry Newman
70. Apologies for Poetry, Sidney is writer against- Stephen Gosson
71. Oxford movement: Opposed to rationalism, anti-rationalism, interested in Biblical miracles
72. The developer of Euphemism: John Lily
73. A lioness has whelped in the streets and graves have yawned and yielded up the dead”-Romeo and Juliat by Shakespeare
74. “18th Century is the age of prose- Matthew Arnold
The rose was awake all night for your sake
Knowing your promise to me
The Lilies and roses were all aware
Thy sighed for the dawn and thee” –Maud
75. Broken narrative, new private vocabulary, sardonic humour are the features of James Joyce
76. I shall Endeavour to enliven morality with wit and temper wit with morality- Addison
77. “I have a smack of Hamlet myself if I may say so”- Coleridge
78. The first book printed in English: The History of Troy
79. Plutarch Lives in 1579 who translated in to English: Thomas North
80. The Neoclassical Age, The Age of Dryden, the Age of Reason, Restoration are the name of the same age
81. Who praised the comedy of manners: Charles Lamb?
82. Faire Queen, Divine Comedy, Pilgrims progress are the allegories
83. “Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel” Winston Churchill
84. Beware of all enterprises that require new cloths; HD Thoreau
85. Willows Whiten, aspen quiver
Little Breezier dusk and shiver,
Thro’ the waves that runs for ever
By the island in the river.- The Lady of Sharlot-Tennyson
86. As Ceaser Loved me I weep for him
But as he was ambitious I slew him.- anticlimax
87. English is a vulgar language and would remain so for ever.- Bacon
88. In younder grave druid lies” James Thomson laments the death of- William Collins
89. Novel without Hero: Vanity Fair
90. Essays on criticism by Pope: it was influenced by Boliau and Aristotle
91. The Romantic did not produce remarkable plays, but good criticism on the dramas is available “ on the knocking at the gate  in Macbeth” Thomas De Quincy
92. Dryden “ He was the man who of all modern and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul about”- Shakespeare
93. Adventure Fiction David Daiches
94. Joyce: Ulyses  is the model of Homer’s Odessy
95. Neo romanticism: Dylon Thomas
96. Early to rise and early to bed makes a man healthy wealthy and dead- James Thurker
97. We all have sufficient strength to bear other people’s misfortune” La Rochefouenld
98. Winter is come and gone but grief returns with the revolving year- In Memoriam
99. Movement Poet: Philip Larkin
100. Light breaks where no sun shines: Dylon Thomas
101. Great Traditions: FR Leavis
102. The tomb bore the names of Tom and Magggie Tulliver and below the names it was written. In this death they were not divided: The Mill on the Floss
103. “The Prologue to the Modern Fiction” Long about Prologue to the Canterbury Tales. Becaue of: Narrative unity
104. Authorized Bible was dedicated to –james I
105. “God is dead” Fredrich Nietsche: Thus spake zarthustra
106. Stream of Consciousness in 1890  was used in the book: Principles of Psychology: William james
107. Blow, Blow thou winter wind thou art not so unkind, As mans ingratitude, thy tooth is not that keen.: As you like it Amiens sings it
108. Friends , our dear sister is departing for foreign in two three days: Nisim Ezekiel
109. Since the author of Tome Jones was buried no writer of fiction among us has been permitte to his utmost power of man. We must drape him and give him a certain conventional simper. W Makepeace Thackeray
110. While the present century was in its teens   novels begin with these  tones: Vanity Fair
111. Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life: David Copperfield
112. “The well of English undefiled”-Chaucer his avoidance of foreign influence
113. He found English a dialect and left it a language: Lowes about Chaucer
114. Here lies my wife, here let her lie, Now he is at rest, and so am I.- John Dryden
115. Sons of Belial flown with insolence and wine: Milton referred to court writer of Restoration
116. A cynic is the man who knows the price of everything and value of nothing.-Oscar wilde
117. 18th century is the age of prose and reason: Matthew Arnold
118. Comedy of Manners: Courtship satire and wit
119. Melting apparent surfaces and displaying the infinite which was hid.  William Blake Explains his method of printing
120. One evening of late summer, before the Nineteenth Century had reached one-third of its span a young man and woman, the latter carrying a child, were approaching the large village of Weydon  Priors, in upper Wesses , on fort. Which Begins with these lines: Mayor of Casterbridge
121. I shall not be satisfied unless I produce something which shall for a few days supersede the last fashionable novel on the tables of young ladies: Thomas Macaulay
122. Lollards: followers of John Wycliff
123. “In 1801 I have just returned from a visit to my landlord the solitary neighbor that I shall be troubled with” begins the novel: Wuthering Heights
124. It is a truth universally acknowledge, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.-  Pride and Prejudice
125. In growing polish and decency of society he saw only mask for hypocrisy about: Jonathan Swift
126. Every craft and every power soon grows old and is passed over and forgotten if it be without wisdom this is now to be said that whilst I live I wish to live come after me as memory of good works.- King Alfred
127. He has nothing of the bear but his skin: Oliver Goldsmith about Samuel Johnson
128. A book should help us either to enjoy life or to endure it” Dr.Johnson
129.  Eliot “A game of chess ends with repeated good nights to ladies” Hamlet William Shakespeare
130. Blossom by blossom the spring begins in which poem: When the Hounds of Spring- Swinburne
131. Winter is come and gone but grief returns with revolving year” in Memoriam
132. To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wild flower hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour’s: William Blake
133. “An unexamined life is not worth living” Socrates
134. The stream of consciousness mode of fiction writing: Dorothy Richardson
135.  I suffered from impaired eyesight depression and poverty and left oxford without a degree. aFter a period as a teacher and my marriage to Mrs. Porter a widow twice my a g I left for London to begin writing for the Gentlemen’s Magazine I produced my own journal “The Rambler” written almost  entirely by myself” : Dr. Samuel Jonson
136. Who said my master spenser: Thomas
137. Tragic Falw in Hamlet: Noble Inaction
138. The Waste Land is “Cross word puzzle of synthetic literary chronology” o “ Spurious Verbal Algebra” : Wyndham Lewis
139. New Critics wrote the books: Anatonomy of Literature , Psychological approach
140. Ploughman poet: Robert Burn
141. Picaresque Novel: Realistic in manner, Episodic in structure, satiric in aim
142. To conclude as there are not be found a worthier man and woman , them this fond couple, so neither can any be imagined more happy, They preserve the purest and tenderest affection for each other and tenderest affection for each other and affection daily increased and confirmed by mutual endearment and mutual esteem. : concluding line of the novel- Tom Jones
143. Romanticism” addition of strangeness to beauty”  Walter Pater
144. First note worthy poet of romantic revival:
Thomson
145. Romantic movement “Liberalism in Literature”
Victor Hugo
146. Let not his frailties are remembered. He was a very great man” about Goldsmith, Samuel Johnson
147. Had we never loved so kindly,
Had we never loved so blindly
Never met or never parted
We had never been broken hearted- Roburt Burn
148. He  has given us the best picture of Landor, Hood, Clarke, and many  more interesting writer of his age”- Lamb
149. She did for the English novel what the lake poets did for English poetry: Austen
150. Just for a handful of silver he left us , just for a rib and to stick to his coat: Robert Browning about Wordsworth
151. An archaeologist  is the best husband any woman can have , the older she gets the more interested his is in her – Agatha Christie
152. Rhymers Club: it is a group of younger poets in London. He wrote on the prostitutes and music hall dancers
153. Collective Unconscious- CG Jung
154. These rules of old discovered not devised, Are nature still, but nature methodized – Pope
155. With a phrase make a character as real as flesh and blood – TS Eliot
156. We all have sufficient strength to bear other people’s misfortune- La Rochefouchauld
157. Dying Words  “Crito I owe a cock to asclepus, will you remember to pay the debt?”-Socrates
158. First prize (Noble) for literature –RFA Sully Prudhommne
159. The bright day is done
And we are for the dark- Anoneo and Cleopatra
160. Life is nice but it lacks form, it’s the aim of art to give it some – jean Anouith
161. The Words of the dead man are modified in the guts of the living- WH Auden
162. Mr. Henry James writes, fiction as if it is a painful duty- Oscar Wilde
163. The complexity of modern poetry is the result of the complexity of the modern life- TS Eliot
164. For art’s sake alone I wouldnot face the toil of writing a single sentence- GB Shaw
165. I heartily hate and detest that animal called man – Swift said to Pope in Gulliver’s Travels
166. Good God! What a genius I had when I wrote that book- Swift about A Tale of Tub
167. Pathetic Fallacy-John Ruskin
168. Female Suffrage-J S Mill
169. Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good one. It is not fair he had fame and profits enough as a poet and should not be taking the bread out of other people’s mouths. I don’t like him and I don’t mean to like Waverly if I can help it but fear I must.- Jane Austen
170. The passions are perfectly unknown to her, she rejects even a speaking acquaintance with that stormy sisterhood- Jane Austen
171. Preserve the purity and ascertain the meaning of our English  idiom- Preface to Dictionary- Samuel Johnson
172. The happiness was but the occasional episode is a general drama of pain- Thomas Hardy
173. Browning’s Pauline- Tribute to Shelley and his poetry
174. In a word, the book is great moral study and a very interesting book, but the novel as a whole lucks the strong reality which makes George Eliots other backs- Middle March
175. A thought to Donne was an experience. It modified his sensibility. TS Eliot
176. He resembles browning not only in his  condensed style packed with thought but also in this respect that he labored in obscurity and after much of his best work was  published and apparently forgotten he slowly won the leading place in English fiction- Meridith
177. I deal with all period but I never study any period but the present – Joseph Conard
178. Good morning to the day and next my Gold!
Open thy shrine that I may see my saint. – Poetaster
179. A thought to Donne was an experience. It modified his sensibility- TS Eliot
180. Literature always anticipates life it does not copy it but moulds it to its purpose-Oscar Wilde
181. I awoke one morning and found muyself famous –Byron
182. France standing on the top of nature seeming born again- The prelude Wordsworth
183. Lamb was the most delightful the most provoking and sensible of man. He always made the best pun and the best remarks in the course of evening
184. “Lights breaks where no sunshines” Dylon Thomas
185. Bless was it that dawn to be alive
But to be young was very heaven- French Revolution by Wordsworth
186. I see in Wordsworth the natural man rising up against the spiritual man continually and then he is no poet but a philosopher at enmity against all true poetry or inspiration- William Blake
187. Poetry of Wordsworth is the reality, his philosophy is the illusion –Arnold
188. In 18th century “ Books were seldom judged on their merits the praise or blame being generally awarded according to the political principal of their authors” – John Dennis
189. When a poet’s mind is perfectly equipped of its work, it is constantly amalgamating human experience –TS Eliot
190. The 20th  century is still the nineteenth, although it  may in time acquire its own character –TS Eliot
191. Geography is about maps but biography is about chaps;- EC Bentlay
192. An egg boiled very soft is not unwholesome- Austen
193. Poetry  is more philosophical and of higher value than history- Aristotle
194. The old order changeth yielding place to new, lest one good custom should  corrupt the world- The  Passing of Arthur- Tennyson
195. The desire of the moth for the star of the nights for the morrow
The devotion to something for – Shelley
196. Frailty, thy name is women- Hamelet- Shakespeare
197. That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet- Romeo and Juliet –W Shakespeare
198. Affection may one day smile again and till then, sit thee down sorrow-Love’s Labour Lost –W Shakespeare
199. He was the man who of all modern and perhaps ancient poets had the largest and most comprehensive soul- about Shakespeare-Dryden
200. Others abide our question thou art free: about Shakespeare by Matthew Arnold
201. They also serve who only stand and wait: On his Blindness by Milton
202. In Milton there is always an appearance of effort in Shakespeare scarcely any – Matthew Arnold
203. Both are Lyric poems in the for of plays ( Milton)
Macaulay (about Camus and Samson Agonistes)
204. The Poet’s Poet- Spenser
205. America is my country and Paris is my home town: Grtrude stein
206. It is with that English Genius first fishes into English fiction: bunyan
207. I’m not prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be- Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock- TS Eliot
208. Endymion by Keats and Alastor by Shelley are the same poems
209. He found the drama crude and chaotic he left it a great force in English Literature- Compton Rickett about Marlowe
210. Bacon was the wisest, the brightest and the meanest of mankind- Alexander Pope
211. Life is tale told by an idiot- Macbeth by W Shakespeare
212. The heroine of Hamlet is Ophelia
213. Emerson “the lonely  wayfaring man- Whitman
214. In the room woman come and go talking of Michelangelo- The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock TS Eliot
215. John Donne is the first poet of the world in something- Johnson
216. Here is god’s Plenty – about Chaucer-Dryden
217. Pope could fix in one couplet more sense than I can do in six- Swift
218. The rest is silence- Hamlet
219. Where ignorance is bless, Tis folly to be wise-Gray in  the Ode on a distant prospect of Eton College
220. Milton thou shouldest be living at this hour – Wordsworth
221. Diction is harsh, the shyness uncertain and the numbers unpleasing- Dr. Johnson about Lycidas
222. Sarojini Naidu was Called Nightingale of India by- Gandhi
223. For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn- here them is referred for ambitious people
224. He passed the flames bounds of place and times- Gray about Milton
225. Father of imagism in English poetry- TE Hulme
226. Father of Neo-romantic poety in 1940- Dylon Thomas
227. The greatest commonwealth poet-Aurbindo Ghose
228. Tagore has described, “the inaugurator of the modern life in India – Raja Ram Mohan Roy
229. The imaginative writer is afte effect, the scientific man is after truth- OW Holmes
230. Dear Son of Memory, Great heir of fame- Milton- about Chaucer
231. He is the greatest comic novelist in English , he is also the most truly poetic novelist – Walter Alton about Dickens
232. I think her as delightful creature as ever appeared in print- Jane Austene about Elizabeth Bannet
233. Prophasier of the things past- Walter Scott
234. The Spanish Gypsy by Thomas Middleton and As You Like It by W Shakespeare are parodies
235. Heart are not had as gift but hearts are earned – WB Yeats
236. A prayer for my daughter- WB Yeats
237. Charles Morgan “survived the impact of modern scientific motions upon the soul of humanity- The burning Glass
238. To judge of poets is only the faculty of poets and not of all poets but the lost- Ben Jonson
239. Characters of Shakespeare’s plays is a collection of lectures by : William Hazlitt
240. He never takes liberties with historical facts as Shakespearean does but is accurate to the small details about – Ben Jonson
241. A thing of beauty is a joy for ever – Endymion by Keats
242. They were a plain people faced with task of subduing a wilderness: Early Settlers in America
243. Just as Hardy is a novelist of region Wessex, Arnold Bennett is novelist of – Five towns ( Potteries)
244. Pity would be no more if we did not make somebody poor- Blake
245. Aropagus- Transplantations of classical metres in English During the Elizabethan Age
246. Our is essentially a tragic age- Lady Chatterly’s Lover
247. Religion by blood- DH Lawrence
248. Blank verse user first- Sackville
249. We have no more sight to consume happiness without producing it then to consume wealth without producing it- GB Shaw in Candida
250. That govt is best which govern least – Thoreau in Civil Obedience
251. Love , virtue, she alone is free – Milton in Camus
252. Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp post what it thinks about dog.- John Osborne
253. This moral to be drawn is a sample one don’t let it happen it depends on you – Nineteen Eighty Four
254. God made the country and man made the town- William Cowper
255. All I want to answer to my blood  direct without fribbling intervention of mind or moral or what not  -DH Lawrence
256. The Castle of Ortanto- Horace Walpole-Gothic
257. Poetry is not a turning lose of emotion but an escape from emotion- TS Eliot
258. What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth John Keats
259.  In this on that subtle novel Hathorne solve almost all his problems –Marcus Cunliffe about The Scarlet Letter
260. He is the scientist and  frailest of classic in our poetry but he is a classic – Matthew Arnold
261. Tis not too later to seek a newer world – Tennyson
262. Shakespeare has only heroines and no heroes- Ruskin
263. Dickens of the Elizabethan Age- Thoma Daker
264. The Lunatic the love and the poet are of imagination all compact- Midsummer Night Dream
265. Spenser’s Gloriana, Raleigh’s Cynathia, Shakespeare’s Fair Vestal all are Elizabethan
266. Poetry that has palatable design upon us- Keats
267. There is sometimes a greater judgments shown in deviating from the rules of art than in adhering to them-Joseph Addison
268. His verse is sensuous and persuasive and it is best  simple this according with Milton’s famous definition – Walt Whitman
269. Say what have to say, whet you have a will to say, in the simplest the most direct and exact manner possible : Walter Pater.