44 Quotes About English-literature

أنا عالِقٌ بَينَ حَياةٍ وَمَوتٍ I’m stuck between life and death

England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales might have been partners in an imperial project that required the projection of 'English Literature' as one of the defining elements of cultural superiority that justified the continuous extension of Empire throughout the nineteenth century, but they were also engaged in an internal struggle over the origins and the dynamics of that literature, and about the role of their national literatures within the consolidating discipline of English.

Nelly, I am Heathcliff! He’s always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being.

A Slave in a man is aroused when he takes his freedom for granted.

[...] nowhere's far enough away to get away.

There is such malice, treachery, and dissimulation, even among professed friends and intimate companions, as cannot fail to strike a virtuous mind with horror; and when Vice quits the stage for a moment, her place is immediately occupied by Folly...

There's a history of English literature where the best boils to the top, and Jane Austen stands right at the top of that.

Remember, I have a Ph.D. in English literature.