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অধিকাংশ পরীক্ষায় বিখ্যাত ইংরেজ লেখক ও মনীষীদের উক্তির ওপর প্রশ্ন থাকে। এক্ষেত্রে Marlowe, Shakespeare, Pope, Wordsworth, Keats, Shelley, Coleridge, Bacon প্রমুখ সাহিত্যিকের বিখ্যাত উক্তিগুলোর ওপর বেশি গুরুত্ব দিতে হবে।

Aristotle 384-322 BC

Greek philosopher

We make war that we may live in peace.

Nicomachean Ethics bk. 10

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

Poetics ch. 24, 1460a 26 7

Man is by nature a political animal.

Politics bk. 1, 1253 a 2 3

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

Politics bk. 1, 1253a 27 9

 

Armstrong, Neil 1930-2012

American astronaut; first man on the moon

That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.

In New York Times 21 July 1969, p.5

 

Arnold, Matthew 1822-88

 

English poet and essayist

Eternal Passion!

Eternal Pain!

Philomela (1853)1.31

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Sohrab and Rustum (1853)1.656

 

Bacon, Francis 1561-1626

English lawyer, courtier, philosopher and essayist

A crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.

Essays (1625) Of Friendship

Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.

Essays (1625) Of Marriage and the Single Life

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed and some few to be chewed and digested;

Essays (1625) Of Studies

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Essays (1625) Of Studies

Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.

Essays (1625) Of Studies

A mixture of lie doth ever add pleasure.

Essays (1625) Of Truth

Opportunity makes a thief.

A letter of Advice to the Earl of Essex

 

Blake, William 1757-1827

English poet

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790)

To Mercy Pity Peace and Love,

All pray in their distress.

Songs of Innocence (1789) The Divine Image

 

Browning, Robert 1812-89

English poet

So absolutely good is truth, truth never hurts the teller.

Fifine at the Fair (1872) st. 32

Oppression makes the wise man mad.

Luria (1846) act 4, 1.16

 

Burke, Edmund 1729-97

Irish-born Whig politician and man of letters

Tyrants seldom want pretexts.

Letter to a Member of the National Assembly (1791) p. 25.

Between craft and credulity, the voice of reason is stifled.

Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol (1777) p.34

A perfect democracy is therefore the most shameless thing in the world.

Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) p. 139

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

Speech on the Middlesex Election, in the Speeches (1854) p.3

The people are the masters.

Speech, Hansard 11 February 1780, col.6

 

Byron, Lord (George Gordon, 6th Baron Byron) 1788-1824

English Romantic Poet

Sweet is revenge - especially to women.

 

Don Juan (1819 24) canto 1, st. 124

Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure.

Don Juan (1819 24) canto 1, st. 133

Man's love is of man's life a thing apart, Tis woman's whole existence.

Don Juan (1819 24) canto 1, st. 194

 

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 1772-1834

English Romantic poet, critic, and philosopher

Alone, alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide wide sea! And never a saint took pity on

My soul in agony.

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798) pt. 4

O Lady! we receive but what we give, And in our life alone does Nature live.

Dejection: an Ode (1802) st. 4

 

Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798) pt. 2

He prayeth well, who loveth well Both man and bird and beast. He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small.

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798) pt. 7

 

Donne, John 1572-1631

English poet and divine

For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love.

Songs and Sonnets

The Canonization

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, Nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Songs and Sonnets

The Sunne Rising

This bed thy centre is, these walls thy sphere.

Songs and Sonnets

The Sunne Rising

 

Frost, Robert 1874-1963

American Poet

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep,

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (1923)

Good fences make good neighbours.

Mending Wall (1914)

 

Keats, John 1795-1821

English Romantic

Beauty is truth, truth beauty, 'that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

Ode on a Grecian Urn (1820) st.5

My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk,

Ode to a Nightingale (1820) st. 1

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter;

Ode on a Grecian Urn (1820) st. 2

 

 

Milton, John 1608-74

Greatest English epic poet

Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven.

Paradise Lost (1667) bk. 1, 1. 261

.....The childhood shows the man,

As morning shows the day

Paradise Regained (1671) bk. 4, 1.220

Just are the ways of God,

And justifiable to men;

Unless there be who think not God at all.

Samson Agonistes (1671) 1.293

Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end.

Samson Agonistes (1671) 1. 1008

A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.

Areopagitica (1644) р. 4

Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay they do preserve as in vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.

Areopagitica (1644) p.4

As good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye.

Areopagitica (1644) p.4

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.

Areopagitica (1644) p.3

 

Marlowe, Christopher 1564-93

English playwright and poet

Come live with me, and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, That valleys, groves, hills and fields, Woods or steepy mountain yields.

The Passionate Shepherd to his Love

 

Shelley, Percy Bysshe 1792-1822

English Romantic poet

I am the daughter of Earth and Water, And the nursling of the Sky;

The Cloud (1819)

Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere; Destroyer and preserver; hear, oh, hear!

Ode to the West Wind (1819) 1.1

Oh, lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud!

I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!

Ode to the West Wind (1819) 1.53

If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?

Ode to the West Wind (1819) 1.66

We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught;

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

To a Skylark (1819)

Poets are the unacknowledged legislature of the world.

A Defence of Poetry (1821).

 

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques 1712-78

French philosopher and novelist

Man was born free, and everywhere he is in chains.

Du Contrat Social (1762) ch. 1

Gladstone 1809-98

British Liberal politician; Prime Minister

"Justice delayed is justice denied"

 

Nepoleon I 1769-1821

Emperor of France, 1804-15

The career open to the talents.

England is a nation of shopkeepers.

Give me good mothers, I will give you a good nation.

 

Pope, Alexander 1688-1744

English poet

To err is human; to forgive is divine.

An Essay on Criticism (1711) 1.525

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

An Eassy on Criticism (1711) 1. 625

Kempis, Thomas a c. 1380-1471

German ascetical writer

Man proposes, but God disposes.

De Imitatione Christs bK. I, ch. 19, sec. 2

Shakespeare, William 1564-1616

English playwright

Cowards die many times before their deaths. (Uttered by CAESAR)

Julius Caesar (1599) act 2, sc.2,

To be, or not to be: that is the question. (Uttered by HAMLET)

Hamlet (1601) act 3, sc. 1, 1. 56

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

Hamlet (1601) act 1, sc. 5, 1. 166

Brevity is the soul of wit.

Hamlet (1601) act 2, sc. 2, 1. 90

Blow, blow, thou winter wind, Thou art not so unkind As man's ingratitude: Thy tooth is not so keen, Because thou art not seen, Although thy breath be rude.

As you Like It (1599) act 2, sc. 7, 1. 174

All the world's a stage,

And all the men and women merely players: They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages.

As You Like It (1599) act 2, sc. 7, 1. 139

All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. (Uttered by lady Macbeth)

Macbeth (1606) act 5, sc. 1, 1. [55]

 

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more; it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.

Macbeth (1606) act 5, sc. 5,

Fair is foul, and foul is fair.

Macbeth (1606) act 1, sc. 1

A young man married is a man that's marred.

All's Well that Ends Well (1603 4) act 2, sc. 3, 1. [315]

Sweet are the uses of adversity

As You Like It (1599) act 2, sc. 1, 1. 12

Under the greenwood tree Who loves to lie with me, And turn his merry note Unto the sweet bird's throat, Come hither, come hither, come hither.

Here shall he see No enemy But winter and rough weather.

As You Like It (1599) act 2, sc. 5, 1. 1

When we are born, we cry, that we are come

"King Lear", act 4, sc. 6

To this great stage of fools.

Love all, trust a few, Do wrong to none.

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man

knows himself to be a fool.

"All's Well That Ends Well", Act I scene 1

Frailty, thy name is woman!

"Hamlet", Act 1, Sc.2

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

"Hamlet", act 2, Sc.2.

I must be cruel, only to be kind:

Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.

'Hamlet'. Act 3, 5c.4

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have geatness thrust upon them.

W. Shakespeare (Twelfth Night)

What's in a name? A rose by any name would smell as sweet.

W. Shakespeare (Romeo and Juliet)

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

W. Shakespeare (Sonnet 18)

 

Wordsworth, William 1770-1850

English Romantic poet

Ten thousand saw at a glance, Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud (1807)

I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils;

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud (1807)

Behold her, single in the field, Yon solitary Highland lass! Reaping and singing by herself; Stop here or gently pass

The Solitary Reaper (1807)

The Child is father of the Man

My Heart Leaps up When I Behold (1807)

 

Gray, Thomas 1716-1771

English poet

Full many a gem of purest ray serene, The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear: Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air.

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (1751) 1.53

Nelson, Horatio, Lord 1758-1805

British admiral

England expects that every man will do his duty.

 

Socrates 469-399 BC

Greek philosopher

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

In Diogenes Laertius Lives of the Philosophers bk. 2, sect. 3

The unexamined life is not worth living.

In Plato Apology 38a

It is never right to do wrong or to requite wrong with wrong, or when we suffer evil to defend ourselves by doing evil in return.

In Plato Crito 49d

It is perfectly certain that the soul is immortal and imperishable, and our souls will actually exist in another world.

In Plato Phaedo 107a

Know thyself.

 

 

Plato 429-347 BC

Greek philosopher

Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.

The Republic

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

The Republic

Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

The Republic

 

Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)

Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer and poet.

"Books, the children of the brain."

A Tale of a Tub and Other Writings

"I cannot but conclude that the Bulk of your Natives, to be the most pernicious Race of little odious Vermin that Nature ever suffered to crawl upon the Surface of the Earth."

Gulliver's Travels

"Undoubtedly, philosophers are in the right when they tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison."

Gulliver's Travels

 

Bernard Shaw, George (1856-1950)

Irish dramatist & socialist

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.

There is no love sincerer than the love of food.

A learned man is an idler who kills time with study.

Beware of his false knowledge: it is more dangerous

than ignorance.

Man and Superman (1903)

Liberty also means responsibility.

That is why most men dread it.

Maxims for Revolutionists.

He who has never hoped can never despair.

Caesar and Cleopatra.

 

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

Caesar and Cleopatra

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

Candida

There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's

desire. The other is to get it. When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

Man and Superman

 

Austen, Jane (1775-1817)

English Novelist

To be claimed as a good, though in an improper style, is at least better than being rejected as no good at all.

Persuasion, 1818

To flatter and follow others, without being flattered an followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.

Persuasion, 1818

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn? Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

Pride and Prejudice

If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other or ever so similar beforehand, it does not advance their felicity in the least.

Pride and Prejudice

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously... Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.

Pride and Prejudice, first line

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

Pride and Prejudice, first line

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

Emma