CBSE Class 8 English Quotations MCQs

5. QUOTATIONS

Choose the correct answer:

81.“Fortune befriends the bold”.

a. Milton b. Dryden c. Keats d. Plato

82.“Early to bed early to rise Makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise”.

a. Franklin b. Disraeli c. Johnson d. Shakespeare

83. “A thing of beauty is a joy for ever”.

a. Socrates b. Tolstoy c. Keats d. Milton

84. “Clever men are good, but they are not the best”.

a. Voltaire b. Emerson c. Wordsworth d. Carlyle

85.“Common sense is not so common”.

a. Voltaire b. Disraeli c. Hazlitt d. Emerson

86.“Brevity is the soul of wit”.

a. Carlyle b. Shakespeare c. Pope d. Socrates

87.“The child is the father of the man”.

a. Keats b. Pope c. Wordsworth d. Milton

88.“Self trust is the essence of heroism”.

a. Disraeli b. Emerson c. Voltaire d. Carlyle

89.“The secret of success is constancy to purpose”.

a. Disraeli b. Tolstoy c. Rousseau d. Galsworthy

90.“Silence is one great art of conversation”.

a. George Moor b. Shakespeare c. Karl Marx d. Hazlitt

91.“Fools rush in where angels fear to tread”.

a. Pope b. Tolstoy c. Mahatma Gandhi d. Dryden

92.“Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor”.

a. Sydney Smith b. Francis Bacon c. Aristotle d. Bernard Shaw

93.“All happy families resemble one another; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way”.

a. Shakespeare b. Hazlitt c. Tolstoy d. Socrates

94.“Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds”.

a. Socrates b. Nehru c. Tagore d. Tolstoy

95.“People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges”.

a. Nissim Ezekiel b. S.Radhakrishnan. c.V.Samuel d. J.F.Newton

96.“A sound mind in a sound body, is a short but full description of a

a happy state in this world”.

a. John Locke b. Goethe c. Newton d. Mark Twain

97.“It is easy to hate, but it is easy healthy to love”.

a. V. Samuel b. T.F.Newton c. S.Radhakrishnan d. Confucius

98.“Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains”.

a. Voltaire b. Rousseau c. Tolstoy d. Socrates

99.“Style is the shadow of personality”.

a. V. Samuel b. Cardinal Newman c. Kautilya d. Aristotle

100.“One cannot reach truth, by untruthfulness Truthful conduct alone can reach truth”.

a. Swami Sivananda b. Fielding c. Aristotle d. Mahatma Gandhi