English literature Quotes

“We were supposed to be an English literature class, but Miss Nesbitt used literature to teach real life. She said she didn't have time to teach us like a regular English teacher--we were too far behind. Instead, she taught us the world through literature.”

“First time my master’s in English literature ever proved useful.”

“The whole business of reading English Literature in two years, to know it in any reputable sense of the word - let alone your learning to write English - is, in short, impossible.”

“You can't understand European history at all other than through religion, or English literature either if you can't recognise biblical allusions.”

“But the required survey of English literature troubled and disquieted him in a way nothing had ever done before.”

“I studied English literature; I took 2 independent religion classes, but I wasn't a religion major really.”

“Despite centuries of English literature, the most famous split infinitive in all of history comes from Star Trek.”

“I wasn’t reading poetry because my aim was to work my way through English Literature in Prose A–Z.But this was diff”

“In my teens, I developed a passionate idolatry for a teacher of English literature. I wanted to do something that he would approve of more, so I thought I should be some sort of a scholar.”

“For this reason, to study English literature without some general knowledge of the relation of the Bible to that literature would be to leave one's literary education very incomplete.”