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1. BOOK QUOTES II –ENGLISH
AMSTERDAM – IAN MCEWAN
ROALD DAHL – SOMEONE LIKE YOU
Frederick Forsyth – The Negotiator
LUDLUM – THE GEMINI CONTENDERS
COLLECTED SHORT STORIES I– W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
E. 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

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English is spoken as a native language by about 375 million people and as a second language by around
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4. AMSTERDAM – IAN MCEWAN
HE MARRIED A WOMAN
TO STOP HER FROM
GETTING AWAY; NOW
SHE’S THERE ALL DAY!

5. HE’S CUTTING A DEAL
WITH THE AMERICANS
BEHIND THE GERMAN’S
BACKS. SHORT-TERM
GAIN, LONG-TERM
DISASTER.

6. HOW HE LOOKED, AND HOW
HE FELT HE LOOKED, WERE
PROBABLY VERY FAR APART.

7. 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, BLUES
AND GREENS, WAS A PARTY OF WALKERS.
THEY WERE SCHOOLCHILDREN, PERHAPS A
HUNDRED OF THEM, FILING DOWN TO THE
LAKE.

8. WHATEVER THEY
WERE ABOUT, CLIVE’S
IMMEDIATE THOUGHT
WAS AS CLEAR AS A
NEON SIGN: I AM NOT
HERE.

9. outwardly walking,
inwardly sprinting

10. NO ONE WANTED TO STAND
UP FIRST AND BE SHOT
DOWN…..

11. …………..LYING THERE ALL
DAY LIKE A DEPRESSED
TEENAGER.

12. A LARGE MAN WHOSE
FACE WAS ALMOST LOST
INTO A RIDICULOUS
RED BEARD HE NEVER
TRIMMED.

13. HE ALWAYS GETS THE
SUPERMARKET TROLLEY
WITH THE WOBBLY WHEEL!

15. 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 she
was 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.

16. A fine electricity
of fear was beginning
to prickle under
the skin of
his stomach.

17. A BIT OF TEASING AND
DISCOMFORT WOULDN’T DO
HIM ANY HARM.
AND IT WOULD DO ME AN
AWFAL LOT OF GOOD!

18. NATURALLY, THE
VULTURES STARTED
GATHERING AT ONCE.

19. It made no difference that thousands upon thousands
were going through the same experience;
there was no comfort in mathematics.
 Ludlum – The Gemini Contenders

20. The June light washed
the trees and scrubbed
the houses.

21. He paused, and two small crafty eyes
watched my face for a sign.

23. Frederick Forsyth – The Negotiator
Reporters can smell a
spokesman on the run like a
Limburger cheese.

24.  He was flushed and apologetic,
pushing back his floppy blond hair
and managing a boy-next-door-grin.

25. In a break between 3 a.m. and
sunrise he catnapped for four
hours.

26. He must have piano
wires for nerves.

28. Collected Short Stories I– W. Somerset Maugham
He is nobody’s enemy but his own.

29. You seldom see beauty
face to face.

30. 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.

31. ‘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.’

32. She was twice the man her
son was, they said.

33. And since he never learned to
put any restraint on his tongue,
he expressed his opinion of his
assistant freely.

34. But human nature is weak.
You must not ask too much of it.

35. I must have intellectual
conversation,’ she boomed.
‘When you have a brain like mine
you’ve got to consort with your
intellectual equals.

36. 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.

37. There was a gaunt Scotch woman,
with a face like a Peruvian mask
that has been battered by the
storms of ten centuries

38. 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.

39. ’More people know Tom
Fool than Tom Fool knows.’

40. ‘Don’t get snotty, old boy.
There’s no reason to get up on
your hind legs.’

41. Then it happened…
.....like a sharp spring frost, nipping
the fruit trees and ruining the crop.

42. Even God cannot
make two and two
five.

43. To earn enough to keep body
and soul together.

44. ‘See you again at six for a
sun-downer.’

45. ....for suddenly it came to him with the
shattering suddenness of gun-fire.

46. But she had a gay, fruity laugh that
made you feel you wanted to laugh
too.

48. E. M. Forster – Howard’s End
Life is a mysterious business.

49. ..and while her lips talked culture, her heart
was planning to invite him for tea.

50. ’Money pads the edges of things,
’said Miss Schlegel,
‘God help those who have none.’

51. Their grief, though less poignant than their
father’s, grew from deeper roots, for a wife may be
replaced; a mother never.

52. 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!

53. The sea was like glass and the sun
set radiantly.
Collected Short Stories II– W. Somerset Maugham

54. ‘I was pleased as punch to be on my
own!’

55. After all, Norman knew no more
about the stage than a babe-
unborn.

56. There had always been something
about Norman that she hadn’t quite
been able to get to the bottom of.

58. 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.

59. rhodes, in fact, was in grave danger of becoming
an old woman.