Quotes of Marilyn Butler

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English literature is a kind of training in social ethics. English trains you to handle a body of information in a way that is conducive to action.

- Marilyn Butler

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“ Tragedy and adversary are the stones we sharpen our swords against so we can fight new battles. ”

- Sherrilyn Kenyon

“ Time is persistent, and we need to make the best of it. ”

- Charlena E. Jackson

“ Love isn't a feeling or emotion that changes timely, it's everlasting... ”

- Gandhi

“ I felt overwhelmed. I didn’t expect a first kiss to be so…life altering. In a few brief moments, the rule book of my universe had been rewritten. Suddenly I was a brand new person. I was as fragile as a newborn, but instead of the doctor placing me in my mother’s arms, he’d put me in Ren’s. What would Ren do with me? Would he draw me near, soothe me, and teach me about this new world or would he reject me and tell the doctor there must be some mistake. There was no way to know. What a breakable and delicate thing a heart was, no wonder I’d kept mine locked away. ”

- Colleen Houck

“ Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. ”

- Mark Twain

“ The desires of man are frequently more influential than their rational thought. ”

- RJ Intindola

“ I would die for you. But I won't live for you. ”

- Stephen Chbosky

“ The only time a man can do the right thing is right now. ”

- John Verdon

“ You know her well. People are harder to sum up when you know them well. ”

- Veronica Roth

“ Anyone who stops learning is old, whether twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing you can do is keep your mind young. ”

- Mark Twain

“ Choose being kind over being right, and you’ll be right every time. ”

- Richard Carlson

“ I don't think you can define love. ”

- Harry Styles

“ I wonder if you have noticed a rather rummy thing about it viz. that it is everywhere. You can't get away from it. Love, I mean. Wherever you go, there it is, buzzing along in every class of life. Quite remarkable. ”

- P. G. Wodehouse

“ Until you step into the unknown, you don’t know what you’re made of. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

“ After your first failure, the occurrence of a second failure closely depends on what you have learned from your past mistakes and whether or not you have drawn some valuable lessons. ”

- JOHN TASKINSOY

“ The way you handle fear determines the results you have in life. If you are equipped with knowledge, you can overcome fear ”

- H. J. Chammas

“ I spend most nights at home falling in love with the idea of you. ”

- Michael Faudet

“ Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove. O no, it is an everfixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wand'ring bark, Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken." (Sonnet 116) ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Every man is a boyfriend. But some people do not have the ability to become husbands. ”

- Sajal Ahmed

“ To love oneself is the beginning of a life long romance. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ Gratitude is not love. Don’t mix the two because they are not the same. ”

- Frank Matobo

“ Life is a sheet of blank papers and pen: “We write our life like one made in heaven.” Sadly though, some don’t have the pen with them: “It’s others doing the writing for them. ”

- Rodolfo Martin Vitangcol

“ Buy a pup and your money will buy Love unflinching that cannot lie. ”

- Rudyard Kipling

“ If music be the food of love, play on. ”

- William Shakespeare