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Quotations For those studying or preparing for, this page contains 24 important questions and answers arranged in sequence. Each question is accompanied by the correct answer and, where necessary, a detailed explanation to help clarify your concepts. Read carefully and assess your own preparation.

1. 'A little learning is a dangerous thing' is quotation from-

a) Oscar Wild
b) Alexander Pope
c) Alfred Tennyson
d) Voltaire
Answer: Alexander Pope

2. 'A thing of beauty is a joy forever' was stated by-

a) Francis Bacon
b) John Keats
c) Shelley
d) Robert Herrick
Answer: John Keats

3. Who wrote 'Beauty is truth, truth is beauty'?

a) Shakespeare
b) Wordsworth
c) Keats
d) Eliot
Answer: Keats

4. If winter comes, can.....be far behind?

a) spring
b) summer
c) autumn
d) rains
Answer: spring

5. 'Justice delayed is justice denied' was stated by-

a) Disaraeli
b) Emerson
c) Gladstone
d) Shakespeare
Answer: Gladstone

6. 'Know thyself' is written by -

a) Aristotle
b) Plato
c) Socrates
d) Homer
Answer: Socrates

7. 'Knowledge is power' quoted by/was stated by-

a) Franklin
b) Hobbes
c) Wordsworth
d) Milton
Answer: Hobbes

8. Who said 'Man is a political animals'?

a) Dante
b) Aristotle
c) Socrates
d) Plato
Answer: Aristotle

9. 'Sweet are the uses of adversity' was stated by-

a) Voltaire
b) Shakespeare
c) Milton
d) Tolstoy
Answer: Shakespeare

10. 'To be, or not to be; that is the question' is quoted from-

a) Beowulf
b) Hamlet
c) Macbeth
d) Saint Joan
Answer: Hamlet

11. Who quoted 'Justice is truth in action'?

a) William Penn
b) Benjamin Disaraeli
c) Confucius
d) Burke
Answer: Benjamin Disaraeli

12. 'Beauty is truth, truth is beauty' is quoted from-

a) Ode on a Grecian Urn
b) Ode to Nightingale
c) Oe to Psyche
d) She Walks in Beauty
Answer: Ode on a Grecian Urn

13. The quote 'All that glitters is not gold' is from which play of Shakespeare?

a) Hamlet
b) The Merchant of Venice
c) Othello
d) Romeo and Juliet
Answer: The Merchant of Venice

14. 'Justice must not only be done, it must be seen to be believed'- Who said this?

a) George Eliot
b) Seamus Heany
c) J. B. Morton
d) James Mathew
Answer: J. B. Morton

15. 'Judges like Ceasar's wife should be above suspicion' উক্তিটি কার?

a) Bowen L J
b) Sir William Blackstone
c) Francis Bacon
d) Lord Denning
Answer: Bowen L J

16. 'When wisdom brings no profit To be wise is to suffer' is taken from-

a) King Lear
b) Dr. Faustus
c) Sons and Lovers
d) King Oedipus
Answer: King Oedipus

17. 'To err is human, to forgive is divine' is written by-

a) Tennyson
b) Blake
c) Milton
d) Pope
Answer: Pope

18. 'The good of the people is the chief law' is said by-

a) Aesop
b) Cicero
c) Aristotle
d) Socrates
Answer: Cicero

19. Who said 'Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains,?

a) Victor Hugo
b) Voltaire
c) Rousseau
d) Bertrand Russell
Answer: Rousseau

20. 'Give me good mothers, I will give you a good nation' was the observation of-

a) Hitler
b) Sk. Mujib
c) Napoleon
d) Abraham Linkoln
Answer: Napoleon

21. 'Frailty, thy name is women'- is a famous dialogue from-

a) W. Shakespeare
b) John Webster
c) T.S. Eliot
d) Christopher Marlowe
Answer: W. Shakespeare

22. 'Cowards die many times before their death' said by-

a) Julius Ceasar
b) Hamlet
c) Macbeth
d) None
Answer: Julius Ceasar

23. Who said 'An unexamined life is not worth living'?

a) Socrates
b) Plato
c) Aristotle
d) Zeno
Answer: Socrates

24. 'Democracy is a government of the people, by the people, for the people' This statement is attributed to-

a) Rousseau
b) Montague
c) Voltaire
d) Abraham Lincoln
Answer: Abraham Lincoln

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