BCS Preliminary English Literature Preparation

৪৪তম বিসিএস প্রিলির প্রস্তুতি

ইংরেজি সাহিত্য । কোটেশন ।।

1. ‘Child is the father of man’ is taken from the poem/writing of–

Answer: William Wordsworth.

2.‘Better three hours too soon than a minute too late’ was said by–

Answer: Shakespeare

3 . ‘A little learning is a dangerous thing’ is quotation from–

Answer: Alexander Pope.

4. ‘Be You Ever So Hight, the Law is Above You’ উক্তিটি কার?

Answer: Lord Denning.

5. ‘All the World’s a stage and all the men and women merely players’ A quotation from Shakespeare’s–

Answer: As You Like It.

6. ‘All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand’ is a quotation from–

Answer: Mackbeth.

7. ‘A thing of beauty is a joy forever’ was stated by–

Answer: John Keats

8. Who said ‘An unexamined life is not worth living’?

Answer: Socrates.

9. ‘Democracy is a government of the people, by the people, for the people’ This statement is attributed of–

Answer: Abraham Lincoln.

10. Who wrote ‘Beauty is truth, truth is beauty’?

Answer: John Keats.

11. ‘Cowards die many times before their death ‘said by–

Answer: Julius Caesar.

12. ‘Better to reign in Hell than to serve in Heaven’– Who said this and where?

Answer: Satan in ‘Paradise Lost’.

13. ‘Frailty, thy name is women’– is a famous dialogue from.

Answer: William Shakespeare

14. ‘England respects everyman to do his duty’– Who told it?

Answer: Nelson

15. ‘Good face is the best letter of recommendation’– was stated by–

Answer: Queen Elizabeth.

16. Who has written?

‘He prayth best, who loveth best.

All things great and Small.’

Answer: Coleridge

17. If winter comes, can–be far behind?

Answer: spring

18. ‘Justice delayed is justice denied’ was stated by–

Answer: Gladstone.

19. ‘Injustice to anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere’–

Answer: Martin Luther King.

20. ‘Know thyself’ is written by–

Answer: Socrates

21. ‘Knowledge is power’ quoted by/was stated by–

Answer: Hobbes.

22. ‘Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings’ is said by–

Answer: Wordsworth

23. Who believed that poetry is the spontaneous overflow of emotions?

Answer: Wordsworth.

24. Who said ‘Man is a political animal?’

Answer: Aristotle

25. ‘Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely’ was stated–

Answer: Lord Acton

26. ‘Many a flower is born to blush unseen,

And waste its sweetness in the desert air.’

Answer: Thomas Gray.

27. Who said ‘Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.?’

Answer: Rousseau

28. ‘Nature never did betray the heart that loved her’ is a quotation from–

Answer: Wordsworth

29. ‘Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought’ Who is the poet?

Answer: P.B Shelley

30. From which poem are the following lines taken?

‘Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought’

Answer: To a skylark.

31. Who wrote ‘Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the World’?

Answer: P.B Shelley

32. ‘Corruption wins not more than honesty’ উক্তিটি কার?

Answer: William Shakespeare.

33. ‘I am a man more sinned against than sinning’ is said by–

Answer: William Shakespeare.

34. ‘Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man and writing an exact man’– is said by–

Answer: Francis Bacon.

35. ‘Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed; and some few to be chewed and digested.’ Said–

Answer: Francis Bacon.

36. ‘Sweet are the uses of adversity’ was stated by–

Answer: William Shakespeare.

37. ‘To be or not to be, that is the question’ is quoted from-

Answer : Hamlet.

38. ‘The good of the people is the chief law’ is said by-

Answer : Cicero

39. ‘To err is human, to forgive is divine’ is written by-

Answer : Pope

40. ‘Veni, Vidi, Vici’ is the quotation from the writing of-

Answer : William Shakespeare.

(Collected)