Wider Reading, Match Quotations to their Authors

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1. WHICH QUOTATION IS FROM: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

  • "not worthy to possess the smallest fragment of you"
  • "he expressed himself...as warmly as a man violently in love can be supposed to do"
  • "love may turn out to be our only solace in this lonliness"
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2. WHICH QUOTATION IS FROM: Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres

  • "I have to adore the mirror of the earth. You have taught her well how to be beautiful"
  • "we are octaves apart, laughing in octaves together"
  • "by heaven, I think my love as rare as any yet belied with false compare"

3. WHICH QUOTATION IS FROM: Troilus and Cressida by Shakespeare

  • "a proof of strength sbe could not publish more, unlesss she said 'my mind is now turned whore"
  • "the fair conqueror enjoyed the usual fruits of her victory"
  • "let the labouring bark climb hills of seas Olympus high and duck as low again as hell's from heaven"

4. WHICH QUOTATION IS FROM: Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres

  • "he loved her too much to jeapodise her happiness"
  • "the whole attilary of love... amorous warfare"
  • "I have to adore the mirror of the earth. You have taught her well how to be beautiful"

5. WHICH QUOTATION IS FROM: In The Name of Love by Jill Tweedie

  • "love may turn out to be our only solace in this lonliness"
  • "so full of shapes is fancy"
  • "he expressed himself...as warmly as a man violently in love can be supposed to do"
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