これらの名言は有名なもので、ほとんどのネイティブスピーカーが知っています。（劇、本や詩など）文書や映画のセリフ、歴史上有名な人物が語った言葉です。これらの名言やその一部は、会話の中で引用される場合があります。有名な長い名言では、最初の部分だけが使われることが多く、それだけでも十分に理解されます。英語の名言を知っていれば、様々な所でそれが示唆されていることに気づくでしょう。有名な名言を少し変えて冗談に使うこともよくあります。その場合オリジナルの意味と、変化させた後の意味は、誰もが理解します。また、意外な文脈の中に使って人を笑わせることもあります。
| 名言 | 言った人 | 言語 |
|---|---|---|
| A rose by any other name would smell as sweet. | William Shakespeare | 英語 |
| All that glitters is not gold. | William Shakespeare | 英語 |
| All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. | William Shakespeare | 英語 |
| Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country. | John Kennedy | 英語 |
| Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and you shall find. | the Bible | ギリシャ語 |
| Eighty percent of success is showing up. | Woody Allen | 英語 |
| Elementary, my dear Watson. | Sherlock Holmes (character) | 英語 |
| For those to whom much is given, much is required. | the Bible | ギリシャ語 |
| Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn. | Rhett Butler (character) | 英語 |
| Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. | Thomas Edison | 英語 |
| Go ahead, make my day. | Harry Callahan (character) | 英語 |
| He travels the fastest who travels alone. | Rudyard Kipling | 英語 |
| Hell has no fury like a woman scorned. | William Congreve | 英語 |
| Hell is other people. | Jean-Paul Sartre | フランス語 |
| Here's looking at you, kid. | Rick Blaine (character) | 英語 |
| Houston, we have a problem. | Jim Lovell (character) | 英語 |
| I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. | Martin Luther King | 英語 |
| I have always depended on the kindness of strangers. | Blanche Dubois (character) | 英語 |
| I love the smell of napalm in the morning. | Lt. Kilgore (character) | 英語 |
| I think therefore I am. | Rene Descartes | フランス語 |
| If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. | W. E. Hickson | 英語 |
| If you are going through hell, keep going. | Winston Churchill | 英語 |
| If you build it, they will come. | Joe Jackson (character) | 英語 |
| If you want something done right, do it yourself. | Charles-Guillaume Étienne | フランス語 |
| If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman. | Margaret Thatcher | 英語 |
| I'll be back. | Terminator (character) | 英語 |
| I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse. | Vito Corleone (character) | 英語 |
| I've got a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore. | Dorothy (character) | 英語 |
| Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer. | Michael Corleone (character) | 英語 |
| Knowledge is power. | Sir Francis Bacon | ラテン |
| Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get. | Forrest Gump (character) | 英語 |
| Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving. | Albert Einstein | 英語 |
| May the Force be with you. | Star Wars (many characters) | 英語 |
| No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. | Eleanor Roosevelt | 英語 |
| Not all those who wander are lost. | J. R. R. Tolkein | 英語 |
| Nothing is certain except for death and taxes. | Benjamin Franklin | 英語 |
| Parting is such sweet sorrow | William Shakespeare | 英語 |
| Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely. | John Dalberg-Acton | 英語 |
| Speak softly and carry a big stick | Theodore Roosevelt | 英語 |
| That’s one small step for a man, a giant leap for mankind. | Neil Armstrong | 英語 |
| The love of money is the root of all evil. | the Bible | ギリシャ語 |
| The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. | Franklin D. Roosevelt | 英語 |
| The truth will set you free. | the Bible | ギリシャ語 |
| There's no place like home. | Dorothy (character) | 英語 |
| Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead. | Benjamin Franklin | 英語 |
| Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. | Alfred Lord Tennyson | 英語 |
| To be or not to be, that is the question. | William Shakespeare | 英語 |
| To err is human; to forgive, divine. | Alexander Pope | 英語 |
| To thine own self, be true. | William Shakespeare | 英語 |
| Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, I took the one less travelled by, and that has made all the difference. | Robert Frost | 英語 |
| United we stand, divided we fall. | Aesop | ギリシャ語 |
| What doesn't kill us makes us stronger. | Friedrich Nietzsche | ドイツ語 |
| What we've got here is failure to communicate. Some men you just can't reach. | Captain (character) | 英語 |
| Whatever you are, be a good one. | Abraham Lincoln | 英語 |
| You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. | Abraham Lincoln | 英語 |
| You must be the change you wish to see in the world. | Mahatma Gandhi | 英語 |
| You talkin' to me? | Bickle (character) | 英語 |
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