{"quotes":[{"text":"The arts that have escaped [uniformity] best are the arts in which the public take no interest. Poetry is an instance of what I mean. We have been able to have fine poetry in England because the public do not read it, and consequently do not influence it.","author":"Oscar Wilde","tags":["art","conformism","criticism","english-literature","humor","individualism","individuality","poetry","poets","public-opinion","true-that"],"id":4667,"author_id":"Oscar+Wilde"},{"text":"Now why should that man have fainted? But he did,and right across my path by the wall, so that I had to creep over him every time!","author":"Charlotte Perkins Gilman","tags":["english-literature","feminism","gender","psychology"],"id":8659,"author_id":"Charlotte+Perkins+Gilman"},{"text":"...The wise words of a friend and guide rang in my head. 'How would you distinguish a true servant of God from a traitor?...You should take especial notice of how a person speaks, not of other things, but of God.","author":"Harry Blamires","tags":["christianity","english-literature","god","religion","truth","wisdom"],"id":22915,"author_id":"Harry+Blamires"},{"text":"I live on remnants of dreams.","author":"Khaled Ibrahim","tags":["dreams","dreams-inspirational","dreams","english","english-literature","inspirational","inspirational","live","my","new-thought","about-life","quotes","about-life","of-life","to-live-by","remnants"],"id":28186,"author_id":"Khaled+Ibrahim"},{"text":"The most difficult thing for a wise woman to do is to pretend to be a foolish one.","author":"W. Somerset Maugham","tags":["english-literature","maugham","women"],"id":36799,"author_id":"W.+Somerset+Maugham"},{"text":"If Bengali is my mother, then English is my father and friend.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["english","english-language","english-literature","language","language-of-love","languages-and-culture","literature","literature-writing","philosophy","sage","thinker","thinkers"],"id":52625,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"Here rests his head upon the lap of earthA youth to fortune and to fame unknown.Fair Science frowned not on his humble birth,And Melancholy marked him for her own.","author":"Thomas Gray","tags":["english-literature","literature","melancholy"],"id":123501,"author_id":"Thomas+Gray"},{"text":"But why,' he said with animation, 'do the English not read their own great literature?'Victor laughed triumphantly, and said, 'Because at school they are made to hate it.","author":"Olaf Stapledon","tags":["english-literature","literature","reading","reading-books"],"id":198426,"author_id":"Olaf+Stapledon"},{"text":"She'd become an English major for the purest and dullest of reasons: because she loved to read.","author":"Jeffrey Eugenides","tags":["english-literature","majors","reading-books"],"id":209784,"author_id":"Jeffrey+Eugenides"},{"text":"Ninety-nine per cent of traditional English literature concerns people who never have to worry about money at all. We always seem to be watching or reading about emotional crises among folk who live in a world of great fortune both in matters of luck and money; stories and fantasies about rock stars and film stars, sporting millionaires and models; jet-setting members of the aristocracy and international financiers.","author":"James Kelman","tags":["aristocracy","crises","emotional","english-literature","fortune","money","worry"],"id":231316,"author_id":"James+Kelman"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":19,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}