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BOOK QUOTES II –ENGLISHAMSTERDAM – IAN MCEWAN
ROALD DAHL – SOMEONE LIKE YOU
Frederick Forsyth – The Negotiator
LUDLUM – THE GEMINI CONTENDERS
COLLECTED SHORT STORIES I– W. SOMERSET MAUGHAME. M. FORSTER – HOWARD’S END
C. S. FORESTER – THE SHIP( ENGLISH LITERATURE)
BOOST YOUR LANGUAGE SKILLS BY READING
QUOTES AND PHRASES FROM ENGLISH
LITERARY BOOKS.
By M. van Eijk/MA
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.
AMSTERDAM – IAN MCEWAN
HE MARRIED A WOMAN TO STOP HER FROM GETTING AWAY; NOW SHE’S THERE ALL DAY!
HE’S CUTTING A DEAL
WITH THE AMERICANS
BEHIND THE GERMAN’S
BACKS. SHORT-TERM
GAIN, LONG-TERM
DISASTER.
HOW HE LOOKED, AND HOW HE FELT HE LOOKED, WERE PROBABLY VERY FAR APART.
HE WANTED TO BE ALONE……AND WHAT HE SAW MADE HIM CRY OUT IN IRRITATION. SPREAD OUT OVER MORE THAN A MILE, MARKED BY BRILLIANT
POINTS OF FLUORESCENT ORANGES, BLUESAND GREENS, WAS A PARTY OF WALKERS. THEY WERE SCHOOLCHILDREN, PERHAPS AHUNDRED OF THEM, FILING DOWN TO THELAKE.
WHATEVER THEY WERE ABOUT, CLIVE’S IMMEDIATE THOUGHT WAS AS CLEAR AS A NEON SIGN: I AM NOT HERE.
outwardly walking, inwardly sprinting
NO ONE WANTED TO STAND UP FIRST AND BE SHOT DOWN…..
…………..LYING THERE ALL DAY LIKE A DEPRESSED TEENAGER.
A LARGE MAN WHOSE FACE WAS ALMOST LOST
INTO A RIDICULOUS RED BEARD HE NEVER TRIMMED.
HE ALWAYS GETS THE
SUPERMARKET TROLLEY
WITH THE WOBBLY WHEEL!
ROALD DAHL – Someone Like You
You understand, she was a big woman, with a big white face, and when she looked at me hard, as shewas doing now, I became – how shall I say it – surrounded, almost enveloped by her, as though she were a great tub of cream and I had fallen in.
A fine electricity
of fear was beginning
to prickle under
the skin of
his stomach.
A BIT OF TEASING AND DISCOMFORT WOULDN’T DOHIM ANY HARM.
AND IT WOULD DO ME AN AWFAL LOT OF GOOD!
NATURALLY, THE
VULTURES STARTED
GATHERING AT ONCE.
It made no difference that thousands upon thousands were going through the same experience;
there was no comfort in mathematics.
Ludlum – The Gemini Contenders
The June light washed the trees and scrubbed the houses.
He paused, and two small crafty eyes watched my face for a sign.
Frederick Forsyth – The Negotiator
Reporters can smell a
spokesman on the run like a
Limburger cheese.
He was flushed and apologetic,
pushing back his floppy blond hair
and managing a boy-next-door-grin.
In a break between 3 a.m. and
sunrise he catnapped for four
hours.
He must have piano
wires for nerves.
Collected Short Stories I– W. Somerset Maugham
He is nobody’s enemy but his own.
You seldom see beauty
face to face.
Is Arnold Jackson a bad man who does
good things or a good man who does bad
things? It’s a difficult question to answer.
‘But he’s fine for one
thing, I’ll tell the world;
you just have to have
a drink every time you
look at him.’
She was twice the man her son was, they said.
And since he never learned to
put any restraint on his tongue,
he expressed his opinion of his
assistant freely.
But human nature is weak.
You must not ask too much of it.
I must have intellectual
conversation,’ she boomed.
‘When you have a brain like mine
you’ve got to consort with your
intellectual equals.
She was laughing gaily. She felt like
a girl. He had just told her (in
Italian)
that her eyes made the blue of the
Mediterranean look like pea-soup.
There was a gaunt Scotch woman,
with a face like a Peruvian mask
that has been battered by the
storms of ten centuries
The cruel glass showed such charms as she had
possessed slipping away from her one by one;
and at last she discovered that youth, with a
mocking laugh and a pirouette, had left her for
good. Her sweetness turned sour from long tending
of a quarulous invalid.
’More people know Tom
Fool than Tom Fool knows.’
‘Don’t get snotty, old boy.
There’s no reason to get up on
your hind legs.’
Then it happened…
.....like a sharp spring frost, nipping
the fruit trees and ruining the crop.
Even God cannot
make two and two
five.
To earn enough to keep body
and soul together.
‘See you again at six for a
sun-downer.’
....for suddenly it came to him with the shattering suddenness of gun-fire.
But she had a gay, fruity laugh that made you feel you wanted to laugh too.
E. M. Forster – Howard’s End
Life is a mysterious business.
..and while her lips talked culture, her heart
was planning to invite him for tea.
’Money pads the edges of things,
’said Miss Schlegel,
‘God help those who have none.’
Their grief, though less poignant than their father’s, grew from deeper roots, for a wife may be replaced; a mother never.
With a good dinner inside him and an amiable but
academic woman on either flank, he felt that his
hands were on all the ropes of life, and that what he
did not know could not be worth knowing!
The sea was like glass and the sun
set radiantly.
Collected Short Stories II– W. Somerset Maugham
‘I was pleased as punch to be on my own!’
After all, Norman knew no more
about the stage than a babe-
unborn.
There had always been something about Norman that she hadn’t quite been able to get to the bottom of.
C. S. Forester – The Ship
The two locomotives had been stopped in two seconds, as quietly as a woman might lean back against a cushion.
rhodes, in fact, was in grave danger of becoming an old woman.