CBSE Class 8 English Quotations MCQs

5. QUOTATIONS

Choose the correct answer:

Question.“Fortune befriends the bold”.
a. Milton
b. Dryden
c. Keats
d. Plato

Answer: B

Question.“Early to bed early to rise Makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise”.
a. Franklin
b. Disraeli
c. Johnson
d. Shakespeare

Answer: A

Question. “A thing of beauty is a joy for ever”.
a. Socrates
b. Tolstoy
c. Keats
d. Milton

Answer: C

Question. “Clever men are good, but they are not the best”.
a. Voltaire
b. Emerson
c. Wordsworth
d. Carlyle

Answer: D

Question.“Common sense is not so common”.
a. Voltaire
b. Disraeli
c. Hazlitt
d. Emerson

Answer: A

Question.“Brevity is the soul of wit”.
a. Carlyle
b. Shakespeare
c. Pope
d. Socrates

Answer: B

Question.“The child is the father of the man”.
a. Keats
b. Pope
c. Wordsworth
d. Milton

Answer: C

Question.“Self trust is the essence of heroism”.
a. Disraeli
b. Emerson
c. Voltaire
d. Carlyle

Answer: B

Question.“The secret of success is constancy to purpose”.
a. Disraeli
b. Tolstoy
c. Rousseau
d. Galsworthy

Answer: A

Question. “Silence is one great art of conversation”.
a. George Moor
b. Shakespeare
c. Karl Marx
d. Hazlitt

Answer: D

Question. “Fools rush in where angels fear to tread”.
a. Pope
b. Tolstoy
c. Mahatma Gandhi
d. Dryden

Answer: A

Question. “Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor”.
a. Sydney Smith
b. Francis Bacon
c. Aristotle
d. Bernard Shaw

Answer: B

Question. “All happy families resemble one another; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way”.
a. Shakespeare
b. Hazlitt
c. Tolstoy
d. Socrates

Answer: C

Question. “Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds”.
a. Socrates
b. Nehru
c. Tagore
d. Tolstoy

Answer: A

Question. “People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges”.
a. Nissim Ezekiel
b. S.Radhakrishnan.
c.V.Samuel
d. J.F.Newton

Answer: D

Question. “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

Answer: A

Question. “It is easy to hate, but it is easy healthy to love”.
a. V. Samuel
b. T.F.Newton
c. S.Radhakrishnan
d. Confucius

Answer: C

Question. “Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains”.
a. Voltaire
b. Rousseau
c. Tolstoy
d. Socrates

Answer: B

Question. “Style is the shadow of personality”.
a. V. Samuel
b. Cardinal Newman
c. Kautilya
d. Aristotle

Answer: B

Question. “One cannot reach truth, by untruthfulness Truthful conduct alone can reach truth”.
a. Swami Sivananda
b. Fielding
c. Aristotle
d. Mahatma Gandhi

Answer: D