Literary Quotes Exploration
On this page, partners will search and upload their quotations from an English work. Simple quotes, more or less short, can allow us to share with others the thoughts, the themes that most touch us.
This is how we will proceed.
1. Add an item with your favourite quote, specifying: your name and nationality, the work it is taken from and its author.
2. Explain the quotation by exploring its theme, focusing on why you liked it so much.
3. Each student will comment at least two quotations from other partners, by using the Discussion page linked to the current one.
Our English quotations

Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven - John Milton, "Paradise Lost". CARMINE DI RUOCCO , Italian Team.

"war is peace freedom is slavery ignorance is strength" George orwell "1984" Ahmet from hasan aybaba anatolian highschool hasibe yalçınkaya

"But what could be the meaning of flowers on a coffin?" Stefan Zweig , Letter From An Unknow Woman. İklim from Hasan Aybaba Anatolian High School. Hasibe Yalçınkaya

I swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness - a real thorough-going illness.- Fyodor Dostoyevsky "Notes from Underground". YASEMİN. Turkish Team, Hasan Aybaba Anatolian High School.

He was terribly afraid of dying because he had not yet truly lived... Franz Kafka’s book “The Metamorphosis” Erdem from Hasan Aybaba Anatolian High School

"Memories are our weapons" Ahmet MURAT Belki de üzülmeliyiz YUSUF from Hasan Aybaba Anatolian High School
Hasibe Yalçınkaya Hasan Aybaba Anatolian High School
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
Beyza

HASİBE YALÇINKAYA HASAN AYBABA ANATOLİAN HIGH SCHOOL ~When you stop loving someone it starts to die inside, My Sweet Orange Tree, Jose Mauro de Vascancelos

"A man can be destroyed but not defeated"- “ The Old Man and the Sea”, E. Hemingway- Giuseppe Acampora, Italian Team

"Can any of us have a better job? My eyes will be blinded for the sake of others, and yours will be resting for mischief tomorrow."from Jane Austen .Hilal from Hasan Aybaba Anatolian High School

I think you need to be told something... I mean, to prepare you. You're going to a strange place. Francez Hodson Burnett, Secret garden..Hasan aybaba Anatolian High School

"It is both a beautiful and scary problem. The truth is, you need a lot of care." Azra from Hasan Aybaba Anatolian High School Hasibe Yalçınkaya

In everybody's life there are hidden chapters which they hope may never be known. Agatha Christie The Moving Finger. Elisa from Hasan Aybaba Anotolian High School.

"I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration" Frank Herbert, Dune, Begüm from Hasan Aybaba Anatolian High School, Hasibe Yalcinkaya

İf I can't break down the wall, of course I won't tear myself apart but I will not accept to bow down just because there is a wall in front of me, Dostoyeveski, Notes From The Underground HASİBE YALÇINKAYA HASAN AYBABA ANATOLİAN HIGH SCHOOl

Aside from the adults, those who stand out a little in society, that is, those who have something a little new to say to society, must of course be criminals, some more or less, by nature.” Crime and punishment,Bade from Hasan Aybaba Anatolian High Schoo

Sabahttin Ali "madonna in Sabahttin Ali "madonna in a fur coat" Hasibe Yalçınkaya Turkish team This quote Sabahattin Ali ;Eda from Hasan Aybaba Anatolian High School Hasibe Yalçınkaya

Children aren’t coloring books. You don’t get to fill them with your favorite colors.”Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner,Sena from Hasan Aybaba Anatolian High School, Hasibe Yalçınkaya

You don't love someone because they are beautiful, they are beautiful because you love them ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry "The little Prince"Nida from Hasan Aybaba Anatolian High School

"The best happiness in life is to be sure that you are loved."Victor Hugo-"Les Misrables". Aylin from Hasanaybaba Anatolian High Scholl Hasibe Yalçınkaya

A person is also alone among people~Küçük Prens~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry~Begüm Hasan Aybaba Anatolian High School Hasibe Yalçınkaya

I don't think we were blind, we were already blind, blind people who see, blind people who see but don't see?-José Saramago, Blindness, Zehra from Has an Aybaba Anatolian Highschool. Hasibe Yalcinkaya.

"No matter logic, although unshakable, could not resist a person who wanted to live." The Trial, Franz Kafka. Esma from Hasan Aybaba Anatolian High School, Hasibe Yalçınkaya.

"A girl who takes care of herself won't have soft and gentle eyes." Jack London"Martın Eden" Hasan Aybaba Anatolian High School Rabia,Hasibe Yalçınkaya

"Man is a creature that can get accustomed to anything, and I think that is the best definition of him." - Fyodor Dostoevsky- The House of the Dead. İlknur from Hasan Aybaba Anatolian Highschool, Hasibe Yalçınkaya.

"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb into his skin and walk around in it." To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee. Bengisu from Hasan Aybaba Anatolian High School, Turkish Team

“There is nothing to be afraid of in a dead body, Harry, just as there is nothing to be afraid of in the dark. When we look at death and darkness, what we fear is nothing but the unknown.” J.K Rowling Harry Potter Çiğdem from Hasan Aybaba Anotolian High S

He wasn't evil, but he certainly wasn't fighting for good. Neil GAİMAN İskandinav Mitolojisi Selenga from Hasanaybaba Anatolia High school Hasibe YALÇINKAYA

"However, the thought of being crazy didn't bother him much: more horrible was the possibility that he wasn't." 1984, George Orwell Lorenzo Gargiulo, Italian team

“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.”– Charles Dickens, Doctor Marigold

“No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.”- Room of One's Own and Three Guineas, Virginia Woolf - Chiara Donnarumma, Italian team

"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players"-W.Shakespeare- Alfonso Vicidomini Italian Team

"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live", "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", J.K. Rowling. Ciro Acampora, Italian Team

"When you are no longer part of me your memory will clip from the many small stars, then the sky will be so nice that everyone will love the night". -William Shakespeare, "Romeo and Juliet" Angelica Todisco, Italian Team

Nobody understands anyone easily in this world anyway ... The Sorrows of Young Wether ,Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe , Yeliz, Hasan Aybaba Anatolian High School

"'Do not give in to despair,' said the Alchemist in a very strange, soft voice, 'or it will prevent you from speaking to your heart.'"-Paulo Coelho,"The Alchemist",Berra from Hasan Aybaba Anatolian High School

Mrs Bertaso (France)

Le petit Prince

FR Malou - "We accept the love we think we deserve." : " The perks of being a wallflower " by Stephen Chbosky (1999)

" A horse, my kingdom for a horse" Shakespeare , Matthieu Merlet ( French)

“It's a dead woman telling you about her life, her life that was yours, from her first to her last hour of consciousness. Don't be afraid of my words: a dead woman asks for nothing more, she asks for no love, no compassion, no consolation.”(Louise, FR)

Dec 2023 - the French students

Summerset Abbey

'Le bonheur est parfois caché dans l'inconnu', Victor Hugo (Amélie, FR)

“I have been bent and broken, but— I hope— into a better shape.” —Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
If I had to write a book on morality, it would have a hundred pages and ninety-nine would be blank. On the last page I should write: “I know only one duty, and that is to love.” Albert Camus, Notebooks (Valentine form France)

"After all this time? Always" (Roxane, FR)

"The Confusions of Young Törless" Robert Musil frCellia

Quote from the book " Le journal d'Anne Frank" Victoria ( FR)
