English Excerpt from the Novelist's Classics

Answer 1

Here are some classic English sayings from novelists:
- "Never, never, never, never give up (Winston Churchll)" (Winston Churchill)
- “We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope. We must accept disappointment because it is limited, but we must never lose hope because it is infinite. Martin Luther King)
- To be or not to be,that is a question.
- “For you, a thousand times over.”("For you, a thousand times over."-"The Kite Runner")
- “Land is the only thing in the world worth working for, worth fighting for, worth dying for. Because it’s the only thing that lasts.”(Land is the only thing in the world worth working for, fighting for, and sacrificing for, because it is the only thing that lasts. --Gone with the Wind)
- “Keep your friends close,but your enemies closer.”Keep your friends close, but keep your enemies closer. The Godfather)
- “But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the east and Juliet is the sun " What light is shining in yonder window? Oh, that's the east, and Juliet is the sun!" (Romeo and Juliet)
- “If God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you. I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh: it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God’s feet, equal - as we are! If God had given me wealth and beauty, I would have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you. God didn't do it, and our souls are equal, as if we had crossed the grave and stood at God's feet, equal--that's how it is. Jane Eyre)
- “When you fall in love, it is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake, and then it subsides. And when it subsides, you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots are so entwined together that it is unthinkable that you should ever part " It exploded like an earthquake and then subsided. And when it dies down, you have to make a judgment. You have to find out whether you and he have become so intertwined that you cannot be separated." Captain Coreilly's Mandolin)
- "Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same." Emily Bronte's novel Wuthering Heights)
- “All children， except one， grow up.”(All the children had grown up except one.) Peter Pan by James Matthew Barley)
- “It was a bright cold day in April， and the clocks were striking thirteen.”(The clock struck thirteen in April, when the weather was cold and clear.) 1984 by George Orwell
- “It was the best of times， it was the worst of times， it was the age of wisdom， it was the age of foolishness， it was the epoch of belief， it was the epoch of incredulity， it was the season of Light， it was the season of darkness， it was the spring of hope， it was the winter of despair. We had everything before us，we had nothing before us， we were all going direct to Heaven，we were all going direct the other way.”It was the best of times, it was the worst of times; it was the year of wisdom, it was the year of folly; it was the time of faith, it was the time of doubt; it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness; it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of disappointment. We have everything, we have nothing; people are going straight to heaven and straight to hell. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens)
- “it is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible. ----henry ward beecher”
- “humility is the foundation of glory. ---charles hodges”
- “the cpuntenance is the portrait of the mind，the eyes are its informers.”
- “education makes a people easy to lead，but difficult to drive;easy to govern，but impossible to enslave.”Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to control; easy to govern but impossible to enslave.
- “the roots of education is bitter,but the fruit is sweet.”(The road to knowledge is arduous, but the fruits of knowledge are fragrant and sweet.)
- “a good book is the best of friends,the same today and forever.”A good book is a good friend, and friendship will never change.
- “books are the ever - burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.”(Books are the lamps of accumulated wisdom.)
- “reading maketh a full man;conference a ready man;and writing an exact man.”Reading makes a perfect man, conversation a ready man, and writing an exact man.
- “… but that somehow in the streets of London, on the ebb and flow of things, here there, she survived. Peter survived, lived in each other, she being part, she was positive, of the trees at home; of the house there, ugly, rambling all to bits and pieces as it was; part of people she had never met; begin laid out like a mist between the people she knew best, who lifted her n their branches as she had seen the trees lift the mist, but it spread ever so far, her life, herself.”(But somehow, on the streets of London, here and there, through the ups and downs of the world, she survived, and Peter survived, living in each other's hearts.) She firmly believed that she was part of the woods of her hometown, part of the ugly, dilapidated house, part of the people she had never met. She spread like a mist among the people she knew best, and they carried her on their branches, just as the trees she had seen drag the mist, and yet she spread so far away, her life, herself. "Mrs. Dalloway" by Woolf)
- “Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have as much soul as you, - and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you. I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh; - it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God's feet, equal, - as we are!”(Is it because I'm poor, obscure, plain, and small that I'm soulless and heartless?) Aren't you wrong? My heart is as rich as yours, my heart as full as yours! If God had given me beauty and riches enough, I would have made you as inseparable from me as I am now, and I would have spoken to you not according to custom, convention, or even flesh and blood, but my soul to yours, as if we had passed through the grave and stood at God's feet, equal-and that is what we are! Charlotte Bronte (Jane Eyre)
- “How many loved your moments of glad grace,And loved your beauty with love false or true;But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,And loved the sorrows of your changing face.”How many loved your fleeting shadow, and your beauty, with falsehood or true love, but one man loved your pilgrim heart, and loved the marks of time on your mournful face. William Butler Yeats, When You Are Old)
- “I love him: and that, not because he's handsome, but because he's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made out of, his and mine are the same.”(I love him so much, not because he is handsome, but because he is more like me than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are exactly the same. Emily Bronte (Wuthering Heights)
- “The course of true love never did run smooth.”True love has no smooth road. William shakespeare)
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