english quotes

Lord of the Flies

1. "Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Spill his blood!"   Speaker: Chorus of hunters

   Significance: Marks the complete descent into savagery

   Analysis: Shows how civilization breaks down through collective violence

2. "The beast is a real tiger—yes, yes!"   Speaker: Jack

   Significance: Represents fear's power over reason

   Analysis: Demonstrates how fear can control group behavior

3. "The conch doesn't count on top of the mountain."   Speaker: Jack

   Significance: Shows rejection of democratic principles

   Analysis: Illustrates how power corrupts and civilization breaks down

4. "Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill!"   Speaker: Simon

   Significance: Reveals truth about the "beast"

   Analysis: Shows insight into human nature and fear

5. "You knew, didn't you? I'm part of you?"   Speaker: The Lord of the Flies

   Significance: Symbolic revelation about human nature

   Analysis: Represents the inherent evil within humanity

6. "Which is better—to have rules and agree, or to hunt and kill?"   Speaker: Piggy

   Significance: Central conflict of the novel

   Analysis: Highlights civilization vs. savagery debate

7. "What's the point of being rescued if we don't get any military medals?"   Speaker: Maurice

   Significance: Shows boys' disconnect from reality

   Analysis: Reveals how children view war and rescue

8. "He forgot his fear, forgot to think."   Speaker: Narrator

   Significance: Describes hunting frenzy

   Analysis: Shows loss of rational thought in violent situations

9. "The mask was a thing on its own."   Speaker: Narrator

   Significance: Describes Jack's painted face

   Analysis: Symbolizes loss of identity and civilization

10. "We don't want you!"   Speaker: Chorus of boys

   Significance: Rejection of Ralph's leadership

   Analysis: Shows group dynamics and power shift

11. "The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away."   Speaker: Narrator

   Significance: Describes civilization's breakdown

   Analysis: Shows how order deteriorates on the island

12. "I'm scared of him—and that's why I know him."   Speaker: Simon

   Significance: Insight into Jack's character

   Analysis: Reveals relationship between fear and knowledge

13. "The beast was harmless and horrible."   Speaker: Narrator

   Significance: Describes the dead pilot

   Analysis: Shows reality vs. imagination contrast

14. "Roger gathered a handful of stones and began to throw them."   Speaker: Narrator

   Significance: Shows early signs of violence

   Analysis: Demonstrates gradual descent into savagery

15. "His mind was crowded with memories; memories of the knowledge that had come to them when they closed in on the struggling pig."   Speaker: Narrator

   Significance: Describes hunting aftermath

   Analysis: Shows psychological impact of violence

Animal Farm

1. "All Animals are Equal."   Speaker: Pigs

   Significance: Original commandment

   Analysis: Represents initial revolutionary ideals

2. "Comrades, what is the nature of this life of ours?"   Speaker: Old Major

   Significance: Opens the novel

   Analysis: Introduces themes of exploitation and rebellion

3. "Beasts of England"   Speaker: Animals

   Significance: Revolutionary anthem

   Analysis: Shows power of propaganda and unity

4. "The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which."   Speaker: Narrator

   Significance: Final scene

   Analysis: Shows complete corruption of revolution

5. "Every day Snowball and Napoleon sent out flights of pigeons whose instructions were to mingle with the animals on neighbour farms."   Speaker: Narrator

   Significance: Shows propaganda methods

   Analysis: Demonstrates political manipulation

6. "Comrades, what is the nature of this life of ours?"   Speaker: Old Major

   Significance: Introduces rebellion

   Analysis: Shows revolutionary ideology

7. "Work hard, comrades!"   Speaker: Napoleon

   Significance: Shows leadership style

   Analysis: Demonstrates authoritarian control

8. "The only good human being is a dead one."   Speaker: Old Major

   Significance: Original revolutionary sentiment

   Analysis: Shows initial extremism

9. "Let me tell you that we have been deceived."   Speaker: Boxer

   Significance: Shows realization of betrayal

   Analysis: Demonstrates worker exploitation

10. "Long live Animalism!"   Speaker: Animals

   Significance: Revolutionary slogan

   Analysis: Shows ideological fervor

11. "Four legs good, two legs bad."   Speaker: Sheep

   Significance: Simplified slogan

   Analysis: Shows propaganda's power

12. "Man is the only creature that consumes without producing."   Speaker: Old Major

   Significance: Critique of human exploitation

   Analysis: Shows Marxist undertones

13. "Even the stupidest animal can learn that much."   Speaker: Squealer

   Significance: Shows manipulation of truth

   Analysis: Demonstrates propaganda techniques

14. "Animal Farm is founded on the principle of equality."   Speaker: Squealer

   Significance: Justifies corruption

   Analysis: Shows ideological manipulation

 Julius Caesar

1. "Beware the Ides of March."   Speaker: Soothsayer

   Significance: Famous warning

   Analysis: Shows supernatural elements and fate

2. "Et tu, Brute?"   Speaker: Caesar

   Significance: Death scene

   Analysis: Shows betrayal's impact

3. "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears."   Speaker: Mark Antony

   Significance: Famous funeral speech

   Analysis: Demonstrates rhetorical power

4. "Cry 'Havoc!' and let slip the dogs of war."   Speaker: Mark Antony

   Significance: Shows chaos following Caesar's death

   Analysis: Demonstrates conflict's consequences

5. "Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more."   Speaker: Brutus

   Significance: Explains assassination motivation

   Analysis: Shows conflict between personal and public duty

6. "Men at some time are masters of their fates: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves."   Speaker: Cassius

   Significance: Philosophical insight

   Analysis: Shows theme of personal responsibility

7. "This was the noblest Roman of them all."   Speaker: Mark Antony

   Significance: Final tribute to Brutus

   Analysis: Shows complexity of noble character

8. "O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!"   Speaker: Mark Antony

   Significance: Shows controlled rage

   Analysis: Demonstrates political calculation

9. "For Brutus is an honourable man; So are they all, all honourable men."   Speaker: Mark Antony

   Significance: Famous ironic repetition

   Analysis: Shows political manipulation through rhetoric

10. "Why should that name be sounded more than yours?"   Speaker: Cassius

   Significance: Questions Caesar's power

   Analysis: Shows jealousy and ambition

11. "Let me have men about me that are fat, Sleekheaded men and such as sleep o' nights."   Speaker: Caesar

   Significance: Shows Caesar's judgment of character

   Analysis: Demonstrates political insight

12. "Ay, Caesar; but not gone."   Speaker: Artemidorus

   Significance: Failed warning attempt

   Analysis: Shows tragic inevitability

13. "How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world."   Speaker: Portia

   Significance: Philosophical reflection

   Analysis: Shows theme of goodness in darkness

14. "O mighty Caesar! dost thou lie so low? Are all thy conquests, glories, triumphs, spoils, shrunk to this little measure?"   Speaker: Mark Antony

   Significance: Shows impact of Caesar's death

   Analysis: Demonstrates fall of greatness