English Literature Quotes

37 English Literature quotes by 35 unique authors

• Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century. — Russell Baker
• I don't only write about English literature; I also write about chaos theory and... ants. I can understand ants. — A. S. Byatt
• I think that the Bible as literature should be a compulsory part of the national curriculum.. you can't understand English literature and culture without it.… — Richard Dawkins
• I studied English literature; I took 2 independent religion classes, but I wasn't a religion major really. — Maggie Gyllenhaal
• English literature is a kind of training in social ethics. English trains you to handle a body of information in a way that is conducive… — Unknown Author
• English is, from my point of view as an Americanist, an ethnicity. And English literature should be studied in Comparative Literature. And American literature should… — Paula Gunn Allen
• Bitter criticism caused the sensitive Thomas Hardy, one of the finest novelists ever to enrich English literature, to give up forever the writing of fiction.… — Dale Carnegie
• Ninety-nine per cent of traditional English literature concerns people who never have to worry about money at all. We always seem to be watching or… — James Kelman
• The cliché is dead poetry. English, being the language of an imaginative race, abounds in clichés, so that English literature is always in danger of… — Gerald Brenan
• The best books are not read even by those who are called good readers. What does our Concord culture amount to? There is in this… — Henry David Thoreau
• I graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with an English literature degree and travelled for a year before going to work. — Natalie Massenet
• I studied English Literature. I wasn’t a very good student, but one thing I did get from it, while I was making films at the… — Christopher Nolan
• In my teens, I developed a passionate idolatry for a teacher of English literature. I wanted to do something that he would approve of more,… — Trevor Nunn
• For this reason, to study English literature without some general knowledge of the relation of the Bible to that literature would be to leave one's… — Lafcadio Hearn
• English literature is a glorious inheritance which is open to all - there are no barriers, no coupons, and no restrictions. In the English language… — Winston Churchill
• I have preferred to teach my students not English literature but my love for certain authors, or, even better, certain pages, or even better than… — Jorge Luis Borges
• At graduation, I assumed I'd be in publishing, but first I went to England and got a master's degree in English Literature. And then I… — Joseph Kanon
• The movie Fifty Shades of Grey is considerably better written than the book. It is also sort of classy-looking, in a generic, TV-ad-for-bath-oil way. Dakota… — Lisa Schwarzbaum
• When I entered college, it was to study liberal arts. At the University of Pennsylvania, I studied English literature, but I fell in love with… — Andrea Mitchell
• I was always drawn to teachers who made class interesting. In high school, I enjoyed my American and English literature classes because my teachers, Jeanne… — Ellen Ochoa
• My mother's father taught English literature. When I was about ten or eleven, I could recite Macaulay's 'Lays of Ancient Rome.' While other kids were… — Bernie Taupin
• Remember, I have a Ph.D. in English literature. — Henry Louis Gates
• My master's degree was in English literature. — Sylvia Browne
• I studied English literature in the honors program, which means that you had to take courses in various centuries. You had to start with Old… — Jeffrey Eugenides
• I'd probably want to teach at university, because children would drive me insane. I suspect it would be English literature, Shakespeare and so forth. I've… — Stephen Fry

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35 authors contributed a total of 37 English Literature Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 3 English Literature Quotes by Lafcadio Hearn
• 1 English Literature Quote by Winston Churchill
• 1 English Literature Quote by Unknown Author
• 1 English Literature Quote by Trevor Nunn
• 1 English Literature Quote by Tom Riley
• 1 English Literature Quote by Sylvia Browne
• 1 English Literature Quote by Stephen Fry
• 1 English Literature Quote by Russell Baker
• 1 English Literature Quote by Richard Dawkins
• 1 English Literature Quote by Rachel Weisz
• 1 English Literature Quote by Paula Gunn Allen
• 1 English Literature Quote by Natalie Massenet
• 1 English Literature Quote by Mira Nair
• 1 English Literature Quote by Mark Haddon
• 1 English Literature Quote by Margaret Atwood
• 1 English Literature Quote by Maggie Gyllenhaal
• 1 English Literature Quote by Lisa Schwarzbaum
• 1 English Literature Quote by Joseph Kanon
• 1 English Literature Quote by Jorge Luis Borges
• 1 English Literature Quote by Jeffrey Eugenides
• 1 English Literature Quote by James Kelman
• 1 English Literature Quote by J. G. Ballard
• 1 English Literature Quote by Henry Louis Gates
• 1 English Literature Quote by Henry David Thoreau
• 1 English Literature Quote by Helene Hanff