These quotations are well-known enough to be recognized by most English people. Some come from written English (plays, novels, or poems), while others come from films and TV. Others were spoken by illustrious English people in history.
| Quote | Who | Origin |
|---|---|---|
| A rose by any other name would smell as sweet. | William Shakespeare | English |
| All that glitters is not gold. | William Shakespeare | English |
| All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. | William Shakespeare | English |
| Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and you shall find. | the Bible | Greek |
| Elementary, my dear Watson. | Sherlock Holmes (character) | English |
| For those to whom much is given, much is required. | the Bible | Greek |
| He travels the fastest who travels alone. | Rudyard Kipling | English |
| Hell has no fury like a woman scorned. | William Congreve | English |
| Hell is other people. | Jean-Paul Sartre | French |
| I think therefore I am. | Rene Descartes | French |
| If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. | W. E. Hickson | English |
| If you are going through hell, keep going. | Winston Churchill | English |
| If you want something done right, do it yourself. | Charles-Guillaume Étienne | French |
| If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman. | Margaret Thatcher | English |
| Knowledge is power. | Sir Francis Bacon | Latin |
| Not all those who wander are lost. | J. R. R. Tolkein | English |
| Parting is such sweet sorrow | William Shakespeare | English |
| Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely. | John Dalberg-Acton | English |
| The love of money is the root of all evil. | the Bible | Greek |
| The truth will set you free. | the Bible | Greek |
| Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. | Alfred Lord Tennyson | English |
| To be or not to be, that is the question. | William Shakespeare | English |
| To err is human; to forgive, divine. | Alexander Pope | English |
| To thine own self, be true. | William Shakespeare | English |
| Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, I took the one less travelled by, and that has made all the difference. | Robert Frost | English |
| United we stand, divided we fall. | Aesop | Greek |
| What doesn’t kill us makes us stronger. | Friedrich Nietzsche | German |
| You must be the change you wish to see in the world. | Mahatma Ghandi | English |
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