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)

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QUOTES AND PHRASES FROM ENGLISH

LITERARY BOOKS.

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It’s an inspiring way to learn and

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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.