৫০ টি গুরুত্বপূর্ণ quotations in English

Qutations কি

 

Quotations হল অন্য কারও লেখা বা বলা কথা হুবহু তুলে ধরা। এগুলো সাধারণত বিখ্যাত ব্যক্তি, সাহিত্যিক, বা গুরুত্বপূর্ণ লেখকের উক্তি হিসেবে ব্যবহৃত হয়, যা নির্দিষ্ট ভাবনা বা জ্ঞানের প্রকাশ করে। সাধারণত, উক্তিগুলো উদ্ধৃত করার সময় বাক্যগুলোকে উদ্ধৃতি চিহ্ন ( ” ” ) দিয়ে ঘেরা হয়, এবং মূল লেখক বা বক্তার নাম উল্লেখ করা হয়।

উদাহরণ:
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
Nelson Mandela

এখানে “Education is the most powerful weapon…” বাক্যটি হল একটী quotation, এবং এটি Nelson Mandela-র বলা কথা।


Quotations বা উক্তি কেন গুরুত্বপূর্ণ

 

Quotations বা উক্তি কেন গুরুত্বপূর্ণ, তার কয়েকটি কারণ নিচে দেওয়া হলো:

  1. জ্ঞান এবং প্রেরণার উৎস: বিখ্যাত ব্যক্তিদের উক্তি আমাদের নতুন ভাবনা ও ধারণা প্রদান করে এবং জীবন সম্পর্কে অনুপ্রেরণা দেয়।
    • উদাহরণ: “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt
  2. আবেগ বা ভাব প্রকাশে সহায়ক: যখন আমরা কোনো জটিল বা গভীর চিন্তা প্রকাশ করতে চাই, তখন বিখ্যাত ব্যক্তিদের উক্তি সেই ভাব প্রকাশকে সহজ করে।
    • উদাহরণ: “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
  3. লেখা বা বক্তৃতাকে সমৃদ্ধ করে: কোনো লেখা বা বক্তৃতায় উক্তি ব্যবহার করলে তা পাঠকের মনোযোগ আকর্ষণ করতে সাহায্য করে, কারণ উক্তি বিশ্বাসযোগ্যতা যোগায়।
    • উদাহরণ: “The pen is mightier than the sword.” — Edward Bulwer-Lytton
  4. ঐতিহাসিক ও সাংস্কৃতিক প্রেক্ষাপট: উক্তিগুলি ইতিহাসের এবং সংস্কৃতির প্রতিফলন। বিখ্যাত ঐতিহাসিক ঘটনা বা ব্যক্তিত্ব সম্পর্কে জানতে বা সেই সময়ের চিন্তাভাবনা বোঝার জন্য উক্তিগুলো গুরুত্বপূর্ণ।
    • উদাহরণ: “Give me liberty, or give me death!” — Patrick Henry
  5. ব্যক্তিত্ব এবং দৃষ্টিভঙ্গি গঠন: উক্তিগুলি মানুষের মনোভাব ও দৃষ্টিভঙ্গিকে প্রভাবিত করতে পারে। এগুলি আমাদের চিন্তাভাবনা গঠনে সহায়ক।
    • উদাহরণ: “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” — Winston Churchill

সারমর্ম:

উক্তি বা quotations আমাদের চিন্তা-ভাবনা সমৃদ্ধ করতে, প্রেরণা জোগাতে, এবং লেখা বা বক্তৃতাকে আরও শক্তিশালী করতে গুরুত্বপূর্ণ ভূমিকা পালন করে। এগুলো ঐতিহাসিক, সাংস্কৃতিক এবং ব্যক্তিগত মূল্যবোধের ধারক হিসেবে কাজ করে।


৫০ টি গুরুত্বপূর্ণ quotations

 

  1. Ability is a poor man’s wealth.
    সামথাই একজন গরীব মানুষের সম্পদ।
    – M. Wren

  1. A good friend is another himself.
    একজন ভালো বন্ধু নিজেরই আরেকটি সত্তা।
    – Francis Bacon (Of Friendship)

  1. An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
    জ্ঞান অর্জনে বিনিয়োগ করলে সবচেয়ে ভালো মুনাফা পাওয়া যায়।
    – Benjamin Franklin

  1. A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
    বিজ্ঞ ব্যক্তি যত সুযোগ পায় তার বেশি সুযোগ তৈরি করে।
    – Francis Bacon

  1. A little learning is a dangerous thing.
    অল্পবিদ্যা ভয়ঙ্কর।
    – Alexander Pope

  1. Brevity is the soul of wit.
    সংক্ষিপ্ততা বুদ্ধিমত্তার প্রাণ।
    – William Shakespeare (Hamlet)

  1. Beauty is truth, truth beauty.
    সৌন্দর্যই সত্য, আর সত্যই সৌন্দর্য।
    – John Keats

  1. Childhood shows the man, as the morning shows the day.
    সকাল যেমন দিনের আভাস দেয়, তেমনই শৈশব ব্যক্তিত্বের আভাস দেয়।
    – John Milton

  1. Cowards die many times before their death; the valiant never taste of death but once.
    কাপুরুষেরা মরার আগে বহুবার মরে, কিন্তু সাহসীরা একবারই মৃত্যুর স্বাদ গ্রহণ করে।
    – William Shakespeare (Julius Caesar)

  1. Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
    সৌন্দর্য দৃষ্টি আকর্ষণ করে, গুণ মন জয় করে।
    – Alexander Pope

  1. Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.
    মৃত্যু হল অনন্তকালের প্রাসাদে প্রবেশের স্বর্ণচাবি।
    – John Milton

  1. Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.
    খাও নিজের রুচিতে, কিন্তু পোশাক পরো অন্যের রুচিতে।
    – Benjamin Franklin

  1. Eat to live, do not live to eat.
    বাঁচার জন্য খাও, খাওয়ার জন্য বেঁচে থেকো না।
    – Thomas Jefferson

  1. Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.
    স্বাধীনতা রক্ষা করতে হলে চিরন্তন সতর্কতা প্রয়োজন।
    – Thomas Jefferson

  1. Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
    যেখানে দেবদূতেরা যেতে ভয় পায়, সেখানে বোকারা ছুটে যায়।
    – Alexander Pope (Essay on Criticism)

  1. England expects that everyman will do his duty.
    ইংল্যান্ড প্রত্যাশা করে যে প্রত্যেক ব্যক্তি তার কর্তব্য পালন করবে।
    – Lord Horatio Nelson (British Admiral)

  1. Help thyself, and God will help thee.
    নিজেকে সাহায্য কর, ঈশ্বর তোমায় সাহায্য করবেন।
    – Herbert

  1. Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues.
    নম্রতা সকল সদগুণের দৃঢ় ভিত্তি।
    – Confucius

  1. Handsome is that handsome does.
    সুন্দর তারাই যারা সুন্দর কাজ করে।
    – Oliver Goldsmith

  1. If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
    ঈশ্বর না থাকলে তাকে সৃষ্টি করার প্রয়োজন হতো।
    – Voltaire

  1. If poverty is the mother of crimes, want of sense is the father of them.
    দরিদ্রতা যদি অপরাধের মাতা হয়, তবে জ্ঞানের অভাব অপরাধের পিতা।
    – Jean de la Bruyere

  1. Justice delayed is justice denied.
    বিচার বিলম্বিত করা মানে ন্যায়বিচারকে অস্বীকার করা।
    – William E. Gladstone

  1. Justice hurried is justice buried.
    তাড়াহুড়ো করে বিচার করা মানে ন্যায়বিচারকে কবর দেওয়া।
    – Lord Mansfield

  1. Life is a tale told by an idiot.
    জীবন কোনো বোকার বলা গল্প।
    – William Shakespeare (Macbeth)

  1. Life is but a walking shadow.
    জীবন একটি চলমান ছায়ামাত্র।
    – William Shakespeare (Macbeth)

  1. Live and let live is a rule of common justice.
    নিজে বাঁচো, অন্যকে বাঁচতে দাও, এটাই সাধারণ ন্যায়পরায়ণতার নিয়ম।
    – Thomas Carlyle

  1. Revenge is a kind of wild justice.
    প্রতিশোধ এক ধরনের বিচারহীন বিচার।
    – Francis Bacon (Of Revenge)

  1. Riches are not the end of life, but an instrument of life.
    সম্পদ জীবনের লক্ষ্য নয়, জীবনধারণের একটি উপকরণ মাত্র।
    – Henry Ward Beecher

  1. Some rise by sin and some by virtue fall.
    কেউ পাপে উত্থিত হয়, আবার কেউ সৎ পথে পতিত হয়।
    – William Shakespeare (Measure for Measure)

  1. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon ’em.
    কেউ জন্মায় মহান হয়ে, কেউ অর্জন করে মহত্ত্ব, আবার কারো উপর মহত্ত্ব চাপিয়ে দেওয়া হয়।
    – William Shakespeare (Twelfth Night)

  1. Speech is great but silence is greater.
    কথা বলা ভালো, কিন্তু নীরবতা আরও ভালো।
    – Thomas Carlyle

  1. Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
    আত্মরক্ষা প্রকৃতির প্রথম আইন।
    – Samuel Butler

  1. Man is by nature a political animal.
    মানুষ জন্মগতভাবে একটি রাজনৈতিক প্রাণী।
    – Aristotle

  1. Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
    ধৈর্য তিতা, কিন্তু এর ফল মিষ্টি।
    – Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  1. Man proposes, but God disposes.
    মানুষ চায় এক, কিন্তু ঈশ্বর করেন অন্য।
    – Thomas Kempis

  1. Opportunity makes a thief.
    সুযোগই চোর বানায়।
    – Francis Bacon

  1. Pain is the outcome of sin.
    যন্ত্রণা পাপের ফল।
    – Buddha

  1. Philosophy is the art of living.
    দর্শন বেঁচে থাকার কলা।
    – Plutarch

  1. Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
    পৃথিবীতে সবচেয়ে বড় মিথ্যা হল জনমত।
    – Thomas Carlyle

  1. Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
    ক্ষমতা দুর্নীতিপ্রবণ করে, আর চরম ক্ষমতা চরমভাবে দুর্নীতিপ্রবণ করে।
    – Lord Acton

  1. Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
    গোঁড়ামি অজ্ঞতার সন্তান।
    – William Hazlitt

  1. Procrastination is the thief of time.
    দীর্ঘসূত্রিতা সময়ের চোর।
    – Edward Young

  1. Sweet are the uses of adversity.
    দুঃখের প্রয়োজনীয়তা মধুর।
    – William Shakespeare (As You Like It)

  1. Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
    নীরবতা সেই ঘুম, যা জ্ঞানকে পুষ্টি দেয়।
    – Francis Bacon

  1. The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
    ক্ষমতা যত বড়, এর অপব্যবহার তত বেশি বিপজ্জনক।
    – Edmund Burke

  1. There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
    ভালো বা মন্দ বলে কিছুই নেই, চিন্তাই এটি তৈরি করে।
    – William Shakespeare (Hamlet)

  1. Time is the soul of business.
    সময় হল ব্যবসার আত্মা।
    – Francis Bacon

  1. The child is the father of the man.
    শিশু মানুষটির পিতা।
    – William Wordsworth

  1. The first blow is half the battle.
    প্রথম আঘাতই লড়াইয়ের অর্ধেক।
    – Oliver Goldsmith

  1. The pen is mightier than the sword.
    কলম তলোয়ার থেকে শক্তিশালী।
    – Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Unit 3: Life Style : Lesson 1: Manners around the world 

Unit 2: Lesson 2- Dream 

Lesson 1 -Unforgettable History 

Lesson 2: Nelson Mandela 

Unit 1: Lesson 3 : Two Women 

Unit 2: Lesson 1 What is a dream?

Unit Three: Lifestyle Lesson 4: Fitness

Unit 3-Lesson 5: Spending

Lesson 1: The Storm and Stress of Adolescence

Lesson 2: Adolescence and Some (Related) Problems in Bangladesh

 

Governmentality 

Lesson 3 : Why Does a Child Hate School?

Lesson 4 The Story of Shilpi

Lesson 5: Say ‘No’ to Bullying

“Ten thousand saw I at a glance” Who said this?
a) Shakespeare
b) Coleridge
c) Wordsworth
d) Keats
Ans: c


Whose dying words were, “Crito, I owe a cock to Asclepius; will you remember to pay the debt?”
a) Aristotle
b) Plato
c) Socrates
d) Aristotle Onassis
Ans: c


“You may fool some of the people some of the time; You can even fool some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time” was stated by-
a) George Washington
b) V. I. Lenin
c) Abraham Lincoln
d) Churchill
Ans: c


“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in our philosophy.” Which play is this from?
a) Hamlet
b) King Lear
c) Macbeth
d) Othello
Ans: a


Where is expressed the view that “There is a divinity that shapes our ends?”
a) In King Lear
b) In Merry Wives of Windsor
c) In Hamlet
d) In The Tempest
Ans: c


“The good of the people is the chief law” means…
Explanation: The welfare of the people is the most important law.


“To err is human, to forgive is divine” means…
Explanation: Making mistakes is a human trait, but forgiving is a divine trait.


“The government is the best which governs least” means…
Explanation: The best government is one that imposes the least restrictions on its citizens.


“If winter comes, can spring be far behind?” means…
Explanation: Change is inevitable, and after hardship, better times will come.

 


 Where is expressed the view that “There is a divinity that shapes our ends?”
a) In King Lear
b) In Merry Wives of Windsor
c) In The Tempest
d) In Hamlet
Ans: d
উক্তিটির ভাবার্থ: ভাগাই আমাদের পরিণতি নির্ধারণ করে। (divinity দ্বারা ঈশ্বর বা তার ক্ষমতা অর্থাৎ ভাষা বুঝানো হয়েছে)


 Where do we find the following lines occur in? “Alone, alone, all, all alone, Alone, on a wide, wide sea…..”
a) The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
b) Kubla Khan
c) The Nightingale
d) The Dungeon


 ‘For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.”
a) Emily Dickinson
b) T.S. Eliot
c) Matthew Arnold
d) John Donne
Ans: a
উক্তিটির অর্থ: ঈশ্বরের দোহাই চুপ থাকো, আর আমাকে ভালোবাসতে দাও- জন ডান (The Canonization থেকে নেয়া)


 ‘Water, water everywhere, not a drop to drink’ occurs in-
a) The Ancient Mariner
b) To a Skylark
c) Paradise Lost
d) The Cloud
Ans: a


 Who quoted “Justice is truth in action”?
a) William Penn
b) Benjamin Disraeli
c) Confucius
d) Thomas Kempis
Ans: b
উক্তিটির অর্থঃ কর্মে সভ্যতাই হচ্ছে ন্যায় বিচার- বেঞ্জামিন ডিজারেলি।


 “I have not seen the Himalayas. But I have seen Sheikh Mujib. In personality and in courage this man is the Himalayas. I have thus had the experience of witnessing the Himalayas.”- উক্তিটি কার?
a) ইয়াসির আরাফাত
b) ফিদেল ক্যাস্ত্রো
c) জেমস এলেন
d) ডেনিসন প্লেনটিস
Ans: b


 “Beauty is truth, truth beauty” is quoted from-
a) Ode on a Grecian Urn
b) Ode to Nightingale
c) Ode to Psyche
d) She Walks in Beauty
Ans: a


 Aristotle said:
a) History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce
b) Government of the people, by the people, for the people
c) Man proposes. God disposes
d) By nature man is a political animal
Ans: d


 Who said the words, ‘I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to death your right to say it”?
a) G.B. Shaw
b) Vladimir Lenin
c) Voltaire
d) Rousseau
Ans: c
উক্তিটির অর্থ: আমি তোমার কথা হয়তো মানি না কিন্তু আমি আমৃত্যু তোমার কথা বলার অধিকার রক্ষা করব- ভলটেয়ার।


 “Judges like Caesar’s wife should be above suspicion”. Who said this?
a) Bowen LJ
b) Sir William Blackstone
c) Lord Denning
d) Francis Bacon
Ans: a
উক্তিটির অর্থ: সিজারের স্ত্রীর মতো বিচারকদের সন্দেহের ঊর্ধ্বে থাকা উচিত। লর্ড জেমস বাউয়েন।


 The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone’ was stated by-
a) William Blake
b) Henrik Ibsen
c) Thomas Kyd
d) Bolingbroke
Ans: b
উক্তিটির ভাবার্থ: যে ব্যক্তি নিজের মতো করে এবং নিজ উদ্যোগে কাজ করতে পছন্দ করে সেই সবচেয়ে সফল হয়।


 ‘A Christmas Carol’ is a- by Charles Dickens.
a) short novel
b) ballad
c) sketch story
d) historical novel
Ans: a


 The main character in Paradise Lost Book I and Book II is:
a) God
b) Satan
Ans: b


 ‘Hamlet’ is a- by Shakespeare.
a) poem
b) epic
c) drama
Ans: c


 Who has written the play ‘Julius Caesar’?
a) William Wordsworth
b) Ben Jonson
c) G.B. Shaw
d) William Shakespeare
Ans: d


 William Wordsworth was a-
a) novelist
b) historian
c) poet
d) dramatist
Ans: c


 Which one of the following plays is not a tragedy?
a) Hamlet
b) Tempest
c) Othello
d) Macbeth
Ans: b


 Who of the following is not a poet?
a) W. B. Yeats
b) Dickens
c) Douglas
d) Roosevelt
Ans: d


 To err is human, to forgive-
Ans: divine


Who wrote the famous poetic line “To err is human, to forgive is divine?
Ans: Alexander Pope


Who is the speaker of this quote? “No man is above the law and no man is below it”?
a) Franklin
b) Abraham Lincoln
c) Thomas Kempis
d) Aristotle
Ans: b


 The music in my heart I bore Long after it was heard no more.” These lines are from the poem?
a) The Solitary Reaper by Wordsworth
b) Ode to the Nightingale by John Keats
c) To a Lady with a Guitar by P.B. Shelley
d) Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray
Ans: a


 “The Trumpet of prophecy! O wind. If winter comes, can spring be far behind?” Who is the poet of these lines?
a) P.B. Shelley
b) William Wordsworth
c) John Keats
d) Robert Browning
Ans: a


 A thing of beauty is a joy forever quotation from Keats-
a) The Eve of St. Agnes
b) Endymion
Ans: b


 Who is the anti-romantic novelist belonging to the Romantic Age?
a) Charles Lamb
b) Jane Austen
c) Emily Bronte
d) William Hazlitt
Ans: b


 Alexander Pope’s “An Essay on Man” is a –
a) novel
b) treatise
c) short story
d) poem
Ans: d


 The Rape of the Lock’ by Alexander Pope is a/an-
a) epic
b) ballad
c) elegy
d) mock-heroic poem
Ans: d


 William Shakespeare was born in-
a) 1564
b) 1664
c) 1616
d) 1493
Ans: a


 Which of the following is not an American poet?
a) Robert Frost
b) W. B. Yeats
c) Emily Dickinson
d) Arthur Henry Hallam
Ans: b


 Tennyson’s ‘In Memoriam’ is an elegy on the death of-
a) John Keats
b) Sydney Smith
Ans: a


 ‘Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss.’ The sentence has been taken from the play-
a) Romeo and Juliet
b) Caesar and Cleopatra
c) Antony and Cleopatra
d) Doctor Faustus
Ans: d


 “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.” Who said this?
a) Juliet
b) Romeo
c) Portia
d) Rosalind
Ans: a


 ‘Man’s love is of man’s life a thing apart, ‘Tis woman’s whole existence. This is taken from the poem of
a) P.B. Shelley
b) Lord Byron
c) John Keats
d) Edmund Spencer
Ans: b


 ‘All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand’ -Who said this?
a) Macbeth
b) Lady Macbeth
c) Lady Macduff
d) Macduff
Ans: b


 ‘Where are the songs of Spring? Aye, where are they? Think not of them, thou hast thy music.’-Who wrote this?
a) William Wordsworth
b) Robert Browning
c) John Keats
d) Samuel Coleridge
Ans: c

 “The old order changeth, yielding place to new.” This line is extracted from Tennyson’s poem-
a) The Lotos-Eaters
b) Tithonus
c) Locksley Hall
d) Morte d’ Arthur
Ans: d


 Who is the central character of ‘Wuthering Heights’ by Emily Bronte?
a) Mr. Earnshaw
b) Heathcliff
c) Catherine
d) Hindley
Ans: b


 “I wandered lonely as a cloud” is the first line of which poem?
a) A Red, Red Rose
b) I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
c) Ode on a Grecian Urn
d) The Prelude
Ans: b


 Who has written the poem “The Road Not Taken”?
a) Robert Frost
b) W. H. Auden
c) John Keats
d) T. S. Eliot
Ans: a


 The theme of lost paradise is the theme of-
a) The Faerie Queene
b) Paradise Lost
c) The Rape of the Lock
d) The Tempest
Ans: b


 “To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield” is the last line of which poem?
a) The Lotos-Eaters
b) Ulysses
c) The Prelude
d) The Charge of the Light Brigade
Ans: b


 Who wrote the poem “The Prelude”?
a) William Blake
b) William Wordsworth
c) Robert Frost
d) John Keats
Ans: b


The most famous poem of John Keats is-
a) The Raven
b) The Solitary Reaper
c) Ode to a Nightingale
d) The Prelude
Ans: c


 “The Ballad of Reading Gaol” was written by-
a) W. B. Yeats
b) Oscar Wilde
c) Lord Alfred Tennyson
d) Robert Browning
Ans: b


The following lines are taken from- “He was my friend, faithful and just to me.”
a) Othello
b) Julius Caesar
c) Hamlet
d) The Merchant of Venice
Ans: b


 “Sailing to Byzantium” is a famous poem written by-
a) W. B. Yeats
b) T. S. Eliot
c) John Keats
d) Robert Browning
Ans: a


The “Rime of the Ancient Mariner” was written by-
a) William Wordsworth
b) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
c) John Keats
d) Robert Browning
Ans: b


 “Justice must not only be done, it must be seen to be believed”- Who said this?
a) George Eliot
b) Benjamin Franklin
c) Theodore Roosevelt
d) J. B. Morton
Ans: a


 What is the concluding part of a literary work called?
a) epilogue
b) prologue
c) climax
d) anti-climax
Ans: a


 Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is the name of:
a) Captain Robert
b) a monster
c) a young scientist
d) a French mand
Ans: b


 Helen is the heroine of-
a) Macbeth
b) Hamlet
c) Iliad
d) As You Like It
Ans: c


Duncan কোন নাটকের গুরুত্বপূর্ণ চরিত্র?
a) Macbeth
b) Othello
c) Hamlet
d) King Lear
Ans: a


 ‘Climax’ means-
a) Peak Point
b) Missing Point
c) Vague Point
d) All of these
Ans: a


Who wrote “On his blindness”?
a) Homer
b) John Milton
c) William Blake
d) P.B. Shelley
Ans: b


 Who wrote “Saint Joan”?
a) George Bernard Shaw
b) Wordsworth
c) Alfred Lord Tennyson
d) John Keats
Ans: a


 Mark Twain was-
a) an English poet
b) an American novelist
c) a German poet
d) an Indian poet
Ans: b


 Which of the following is written by William Shakespeare?
a) Sons and Lovers
b) Pride and Prejudice
c) Man and Superman
d) Romeo and Juliet
Ans: d


 Who is called an optimist in the Victorian Age?
a) Arnold
b) Tennyson
c) Dickens
d) Browning
Ans: b


 Who was the youngest of the Romantic poets?
a) Keats
b) Shelley
c) Wordsworth
d) Byron
Ans: a


 Who was the poet of the Victorian age?
a) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
b) T.S. Eliot
c) Alfred Lord Tennyson
d) William Blake
Ans: c


 Who of the following is a novelist?
a) William Wordsworth
b) Charles Dickens
c) John Keats
d) Alfred Tennyson
Ans: b


 Who of the following is not a poet?
a) William Wordsworth
b) Charles Dickens
c) John Keats
d) Alfred Tennyson
Ans: b

 

 

Statement: “A thing of beauty is a joy forever.”
Who stated it: John Keats
Options:
a) Francis Bacon
b) John Keats
c) Shelley
d) Robert Herrick
Ans: b


Statement: “An unexamined life is not worth living.”
Who said it: Socrates
Options:
a) Socrates
b) Plato
c) Aristotle
d) Zeno
Ans: a


Statement: “Democracy is a government of the people, by the people, for the people.”
Who said it: Abraham Lincoln
Options:
a) Rousseau
b) Montague
c) John Keats
d) Abraham Lincoln
Ans: d


Statement: “Beauty is truth, truth beauty.”
Who said it: John Keats
Options:
a) Shakespeare
b) Wordsworth
c) Keats
d) Voltaire
Ans: c


Statement: “Cowards die many times before their death.”
Who said it: Julius Caesar
Options:
a) Julius Caesar
b) Hamlet
c) Macbeth
d) None
Ans: a


Statement: “Better to reign in Hell than to serve in Heaven.”
Who said it: Satan in ‘Paradise Lost’
Options:
a) Satan in ‘Paradise Lost’
b) Satan in ‘Paradise Regained’
c) Adam in ‘Paradise Lost’
d) Adam in ‘Paradise Regained’
Ans: a


Statement: “Child is the father of man.”
Who said it: W. Wordsworth
Options:
a) W. Wordsworth
b) P.B. Shelley
c) S.T. Coleridge
d) A.C. Swinburne
Ans: a


Statement: “Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.”
Who said it: Shakespeare
Options:
a) Shakespeare
b) Wordsworth
c) O. Henry
Ans: a


 

 

Statement: “A little learning is a dangerous thing.”
Who said it: Alexander Pope
Options:
a) Oscar Wilde
b) Alexander Pope
c) Alfred Tennyson
d) Edgar Allan Poe
Ans: b


Statement: “Be you ever so high, the law is above you.”
Who said it: Justice Coke
Options:
a) Justice Atkinson
b) Justice Marshal
c) Lord Denning
d) Justice Coke
Ans: d


Statement: “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.”
Who said it: Shakespeare, from As You Like It
Options:
a) As You Like It
b) Macbeth
c) Tempest
d) Romeo and Juliet
Ans: a


Statement: “All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.”
Who said it: Shakespeare, from Macbeth
Options:
a) Hamlet
b) Othello
c) King Lear
d) Macbeth
Ans: d


Statement: “Frailty, thy name is woman.”
Who said it: Shakespeare
Options:
a) Bacon
b) Shakespeare
c) Fielding
d) Jane Austen
Ans: b


Statement: “England respects every man to do his duty.”
Who said it: Nelson
Options:
a) Thatcher
b) Wilson
c) Churchill
d) Nelson
Ans: d


Statement: “Good face is the best letter of recommendation.”
Who said it: Robert Browning
Options:
a) Queen Elizabeth
b) Indira Gandhi
c) Mother Teresa
d) Robert Browning
Ans: d


Statement: “Give me good mothers, I will give you a good nation.”
Who said it: Napoleon
Options:
a) Hitler
b) Sk. Mujib
c) Napoleon
d) Abraham Lincoln
Ans: c


Statement: “He prayth best, who loveth best.”
Who said it: Coleridge
Options:
a) John Keats
b) Lord Byron
c) P.B. Shelley
d) S.T. Coleridge
Ans: d

 


‘Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man and writing an exact man’ is said by-
a) Francis Bacon
b) John Dryden
c) John Donne
d) Thomas Kyd
Ans: a


Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed; and some few to be chewed and digested.’ said-
a) Joseph Addison
b) Dr. Johnson
c) Charles Lamb
d) Francis Bacon
Ans: d


‘Sweet are the uses of adversity’ was stated by
a) Voltaire
b) Shakespeare
c) Milton
d) Tolstoy
Ans: b


If winter comes, can spring be far behind?
a) Spring
b) Summer
c) Autumn
d) Rains
e) Monsoon
Ans: a


“If winter comes, can spring be far behind” is a line from-
a) Shelley’s ‘Ode to the West Wind’
b) Coleridge’s ‘Rime of the Ancient Mariner’
c) Byron’s ‘Don Juan’
d) Keats’ ‘Ode to Autumn’
Ans: a


“Justice delayed is justice denied” was stated by-
a) Disraeli
b) Emerson
c) Gladstone
d) Shakespeare
Ans: c


“Justice is justice” is-
a) denied, delayed by delay, deny
b) delayed, denied
c) delayed, denied by delay
d) delaying
e) none
Ans: e


 

 

The last word of the proverb “Justice delayed is justice” is-
a) refused
b) denied
c) negated
d) none
Ans: b


If winter comes, can spring be far behind?’ was written by-
a) Donne
b) Shelley
c) Tennyson
d) Coleridge
Ans: b


Injustice to anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
a) Lord Denning
b) Aristotle
c) Martin Luther King
d) Socrates
Ans: c


Know thyself (acea) is written by –
a) Aristotle
b) Franklin
c) Plato
d) Homer
e) Wordsworth
Ans: b


Knowledge is power’ quoted by/was stated by
a) Franklin
b) Hobbes
c) Justice Marshall
d) A.V. Dicey
Ans: b


To be, or not to be; that is the question is quoted from-
a) Beowulf
b) Hamlet
c) Macbeth
d) Saint Joan
Ans: b


To be or not to be’ is the beginning of a famous Soliloquy from-
a) Paradise Lost
b) Hamlet
c) King Lear
d) Romeo and Juliet
Ans: b


“To be or not to be; that is the question” the quotation from-
a) Wordsworth
b) Shakespeare
c) John Keats
d) Robert Frost
Ans: b

The good of the people is the chief law’ is said by-
a) Aesop
b) Cicero
c) Aristotle
d) Socrates
Ans: c


“To err is human, to forgive is divine” is written by-
a) Tennyson
b) Blake
c) Milton
d) Pope
Ans: d


“veni, vidi, vici” is the quotation from the writing of
a) Jonathan Swift
b) Shakespeare
c) Dryden
d) Alexander Pope
e) Shelley
Ans: a


Who wrote “Where ignorance is bliss, it is folly to be wise”?
a) George Orwell
b) Robert Frost
c) Thomas Gray
d) John Milton
Ans: c


When wisdom brings no profit
To be wise is to suffer’, is taken from
a) King Lear
b) Dr. Faustus
c) Oedipus Rex
d) King Oedipus
Ans: d


Who authored the statement “The government is the best which governs least”?
a) Herbert Spencer
b) Harold Laski
c) Tocqueville
d) Henry David Thoreau
Ans: d


Who wrote the following lines: “All at once I saw a crowd, a host of golden daffodils”?
a) Wordsworth
b) Shelley
c) Herrick
d) Keats
Ans: a

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