From my earliest days, reading was my passion, and at Cambridge, where I studied English literature, my intellectual life deepened and grew. — Miriam Margolyes Copy Share Image
The Irishman in English literature may be said to have been born with an apology in his mouth. — James Connolly Copy Share Image
I think in general there's no point in going into a field like English literature if you're not going to have fun… — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
Nineteenth-century English literature I know; 19th-century sewage systems, not so much. — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
“I happened to pen some literature, alas, in an utterly unliterary era.” — B.S. Murthy Copy Share Image
“Bad is the world, and all will come to naught when such ill-dealing must be seen in thought.” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Libraries are always bigger on the inside because every book has an entire word inside of it.” — Robert Arger Copy Share Image
My mother, with a Master's in English Literature, taught me to appreciate language and that words matter. — Pramila Jayapal Copy Share Image
I soon realized that a student of English literature who does not know the Bible does not understand a good deal of… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
As a student in England, I studied French and English literature. I read L'Etranger and the rhythm of the novel felt familiar… — Sefi Atta Copy Share Image
It is no exaggeration to say that the English Bible is, next to Shakespeare, the greatest work in English literature, and that… — Lafcadio Hearn Copy Share Image
The Bible contains some of the most sublime passages in English literature, but is also full of contradictions, inconsistencies, and absurdities. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
“Donvel je bio poznat po jagodama, koje su bile izgovor za poziv; ali nikakav izgovor nije bio potreban; ovu damu bi i… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I'd studied English literature at university, but I was also far more enamored with Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, and James Joyce. That… — Felicity Jones Copy Share Image
I went to graduate school with zero expectation. I kind of backed into it. I wanted to go back to school because… — Susan Minot Copy Share Image
I loved English literature - if didn't it would have been hard - but I had to learn it myself. I remembered… — Benjamin Clementine Copy Share Image
“A college student who wants to file a complaint of sexual assault within the campus disciplinary system informs a university employee such… — David E. Bernstein Copy Share Image
“I had not particularly liked the way in which he wrote about literature in Beginnings , and I was always on my… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“When sonneteering Wordsworth re-creates the landing of Mary Queen of Scots at the mouth of the Derwent - Dear to the Loves,… — Brigid Brophy Copy Share Image
The English tourist in American literature wants above all things something different from what he has at home. For this reason the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Vitamin C is the world’s best natural antibiotic, antiviral, antitoxin and antihistamine. This book’s recurring emphasis on vitamin C might suggest that… — Andrew Saul Copy Share Image
I like to take things as they come and, as much as possible, not force anything. I think I could wind up… — Hayden Christensen Copy Share Image
I think that the Bible as literature should be a compulsory part of the national curriculum.. you can't understand English literature and… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I studied English Literature. I wasn’t a very good student, but one thing I did get from it, while I was making… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
I studied English literature; I took 2 independent religion classes, but I wasn't a religion major really. — Maggie Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
My brother and I were both good at science, and we were both good at English literature. Either one of us could… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
If England has any dignity left in the way of literature, she will forget for ever the pitiful antics of English Literature's… — Sean O'Casey Copy Share Image
I studied English literature in university, and then I went straight into radio. — Miriam Margolyes Copy Share Image
I was always drawn to teachers who made class interesting. In high school, I enjoyed my American and English literature classes because… — Ellen Ochoa Copy Share Image
In my teens, I developed a passionate idolatry for a teacher of English literature. I wanted to do something that he would… — Trevor Nunn Copy Share Image
Under Milk Wood' was given to me when I was quite young, in Sydney. I didn't even know what Wales was, let… — Princess Michael of Kent Copy Share Image
“Despite his first, the study of English literature seemed in retrospect an absorbing parlor game, and reading books and having opinions about… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
School was rough for me. I was a good student in middle school, but high school wasn't so fun. I still pulled… — India de Beaufort Copy Share Image
Having spent half my time at university studying English literature, I know from experience that reading lists often contain more white men… — Nish Kumar Copy Share Image
Emerson stands apart from the other poets and essayists of New England, and of English literature generally, as of another order. He… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
“ESTRAGON: We always find something, eh Didi, to give us the impression we exist? VLADIMIR: (impatiently). Yes, yes, we’re magicians. But let… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
I studied English literature at university, but for some reason we only spent one week on [Charles] Dickens, so I remember just… — Felicity Jones Copy Share Image
My father is a poet. He's a literary giant of this country - writes in Hindi - and also quite unique because… — Amitabh Bachchan Copy Share Image
The cliché is dead poetry. English, being the language of an imaginative race, abounds in clichés, so that English literature is always… — Gerald Brenan Copy Share Image
At graduation, I assumed I'd be in publishing, but first I went to England and got a master's degree in English Literature.… — Joseph Kanon Copy Share Image
![“I studied English literature at university, but for some reason we only spent one week on [Charles] Dickens, so I remember just trying to find the shortest book that I could find. I was like, "'Hard Times,' really great - it's short, that'll do it."” quote by Felicity Jones](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/7cc/felicity-jones-2070_book_i-studied-english-literature-at-universi_553585.jpg)
