English Lit Quotes

“Nature pulls one way and human nature another.”
― E. M. Forster

“This is an evening of wonders, indeed!”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“She nodded and smiled, but I could feel that she was slightly disappointed in me. Like Ms Parker when I answer every question in English with ‘It’s a metaphor for desire.”
― Chloe Seager, Friendship Fails of Emma Nash

“On some fond breast the parting soul relies,
some pious drops the closing eye requires;
even from the tomb the voice of nature cries,
even in our ashes live their wonted fires.”
― Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard