Literary quotes english- M. van Eijk

Inspiring quotes from English literature.

1. book Quotes –English Graham Greene – The Comedians Roald Dahl – Kiss Kiss Doris Lessing – The Grass is Singing ( English literature) boost your language skills by reading quotes and phrases from English literary books. By M. van Eijk/MA

2. It’s an inspiring way to learn and expand your language ! English is spoken as a native language by about 375 million people and as a second language by around 375 million speakers in the world. Speakers of English as a second language will soon outnumber those who speak it as a first language, according to research by the British Council . These quotes about learning English can provide comic relief , inspiration or insult to any learner of the English language . No matter how much confident and successful we are there is a time comes in life when things don't go the way we want them . At that time, we feel depressed and sad. And we need something that can inspire us and motivate us to get back to life. We need something that can boost our self confidence to survive through in our tough times. This is the time when we need Motivational Literary Quotes.

3. Graham Greene – The Comedians “ I could feel the time I had left to be alone with Martha disappearing like sand in an egg-timer, and I could almost believe he could see it to .” " I had touched his raw wound.”

4. “ I got the impression Jon e s would have got out anywa y , on his own steam.” “The sky reddened over his shoulder and the palm trees turned black and distinct.” “I was frightened, but I was more frightened of showing my fear – that would unleash him. Like a savage dog he was safer while he barked.”

5. “ I always felt that Mr Smith and I had a bit in common. Horses out of the same stable.”

6. “ He had been born with peace in his heart instead of the splinter of ice .” ‘…. you know how they treat prisoners here . Surely , you can stretch a rule…’

7. “ I felt more and more that the job would not come my way .” ‘It’s just as short as it’s long, isn’t it?’

8. Roald Dahl – Kiss Kiss   “and he tur ned and saw his landlady sailing into the room with a large silver tea-tray in her hands. She was holding it well out in front of her, and rather high up, as though the tray were a pair of rains on a frisky horse .”

9. “In one ear and out the other, that’s me, Mr Weaver .” “ However , like the faithful wife she was, she didn’t overstay her time .”

10. “The hawthorn was exploding white and pink and red and the primroses were growing underneath in little clumps, and it was beautiful .”

11. “And there it was! Mr Boggis saw it at once, and he stopped dead in his tracks and gave a little shrill gasp of shock .”

12. “Down below, the countryside was spread out before him like a huge green carpet. He could see for miles .”

13. “He found himself giggling quite uncontrollably, and there was a feeling inside him as though hundreds and hundreds of tiny bubbles were rising up from his stomach and bursting merrily in the top of his head .”

14. Doris Lessing – The Grass is Singing   “But Mary was stiff with resentment, because she had noticed Mrs Slatter looking keenly round the room, pricing every cushion, noticing the new whitewash and the curtains .”

15. “He felt he had been given an injection of new vigour…” ’Leave her, ‘said Charlie. ‘She’ll come off her high horse .’ “Her heart lifted as she neared the club .”

16. “For a moment the man looked at her with an expression that turned her stomach liquid with fear .” “That was how she had come to feel. And it was bitter because it was self-imposed poverty .”

17. “She saw him standing in the middle of the big red land, balanced among the huge clods, a spare , fly-away figure with his big flopping head and loose clothing, and wondered how people came to be born without that streak of determination , that bit of iron that clamped the personality together . Dick was so nice – so nice! She said to herself wearily .’

18. ‘ You should have thought of that before you married me ,’said Dick, and she blazed into fury because of his callous injustice . Or rather, she almost blazed into anger. Her face went beef-red, her eyes snapped – and than she subsided again, folding trembling hands over each other, shutting her eyes. ‘

19. ‘ I do so like it when the rains come, she would say conversationally, giggle a little , and relapse suddenly into a blank , staring silence. Tony began to think she wasn’t quite all there.

20. “But he was a long way off, he didn’t matter to her: he was like a person on the other side of a thick glass wall .”  

21. “She was inside a bubble of fresh light and colour, of brilliant sound and bird-song. All around the trees were filled with shrilling birds, that sounded her own happiness and chorused it to the sky. As light as a blown feather she left the room .”

22. Graham Greene – Loser Takes All   “ His kindness had meant nothing, a whim had flown like a wild bird over the snowy waste of his mind, leaving no track at all .”

23. “I like being somewhere without footprints.” “ I carried a knife in my mind and waited to use it . ”

24. Thanks ! Photos made at “ Surae ” (Oosterhout, Holland), 8 April 2015. Update soon !