以下是几乎所有母语人士都知晓的格言，有的是出自戏剧丶书籍或诗，而有的是出自电影的台词，有的则是历史上知名人物曾说过的话。您可以将整句格言或部份句子引用在会话中。这些格言都很有名，即使句子较长，通常人们只要引用格言的第一句，其他人就知道剩下的句子了，因此不用整句讲出。一旦您认识其中一句英文的格言，您就会在很多情况下听到。名言总是会被人稍微改掉几个字来开玩笑，因为每个人都知道原文，也听得懂笑点所在。而当您在意想不到的情境下引用这些格言，也会被当成一种幽默。
| 格言 | 出自 | 语言 |
|---|---|---|
| A rose by any other name would smell as sweet. | William Shakespeare | 英语 |
| All that glitters is not gold. | William Shakespeare | 英语 |
| All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. | William Shakespeare | 英语 |
| Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country. | John Kennedy | 英语 |
| Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and you shall find. | the Bible | 希腊语 |
| Eighty percent of success is showing up. | Woody Allen | 英语 |
| Elementary, my dear Watson. | Sherlock Holmes（虚构人物） | 英语 |
| For those to whom much is given, much is required. | the Bible | 希腊语 |
| Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn. | Rhett Butler（虚构人物） | 英语 |
| Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. | Thomas Edison | 英语 |
| Go ahead, make my day. | Harry Callahan（虚构人物） | 英语 |
| He travels the fastest who travels alone. | Rudyard Kipling | 英语 |
| Hell has no fury like a woman scorned. | William Congreve | 英语 |
| Hell is other people. | Jean-Paul Sartre | 法语 |
| Here's looking at you, kid. | Rick Blaine（虚构人物） | 英语 |
| Houston, we have a problem. | Jim Lovell（虚构人物） | 英语 |
| 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 | 英语 |
| I have always depended on the kindness of strangers. | Blanche Dubois（虚构人物） | 英语 |
| I love the smell of napalm in the morning. | Lt. Kilgore（虚构人物） | 英语 |
| I think therefore I am. | Rene Descartes | 法语 |
| If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. | W. E. Hickson | 英语 |
| If you are going through hell, keep going. | Winston Churchill | 英语 |
| If you build it, they will come. | Joe Jackson（虚构人物） | 英语 |
| If you want something done right, do it yourself. | Charles-Guillaume Étienne | 法语 |
| If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman. | Margaret Thatcher | 英语 |
| I'll be back. | Terminator（虚构人物） | 英语 |
| I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse. | Vito Corleone（虚构人物） | 英语 |
| I've got a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore. | Dorothy（虚构人物） | 英语 |
| Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer. | Michael Corleone（虚构人物） | 英语 |
| Knowledge is power. | Sir Francis Bacon | 拉丁语 |
| Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get. | Forrest Gump（虚构人物） | 英语 |
| Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving. | Albert Einstein | 英语 |
| May the Force be with you. | Star Wars（多个角色） | 英语 |
| No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. | Eleanor Roosevelt | 英语 |
| Not all those who wander are lost. | J. R. R. Tolkein | 英语 |
| Nothing is certain except for death and taxes. | Benjamin Franklin | 英语 |
| Parting is such sweet sorrow | William Shakespeare | 英语 |
| Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely. | John Dalberg-Acton | 英语 |
| Speak softly and carry a big stick | Theodore Roosevelt | 英语 |
| That’s one small step for a man, a giant leap for mankind. | Neil Armstrong | 英语 |
| The love of money is the root of all evil. | the Bible | 希腊语 |
| The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. | Franklin D. Roosevelt | 英语 |
| The truth will set you free. | the Bible | 希腊语 |
| There's no place like home. | Dorothy（虚构人物） | 英语 |
| Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead. | Benjamin Franklin | 英语 |
| Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. | Alfred Lord Tennyson | 英语 |
| To be or not to be, that is the question. | William Shakespeare | 英语 |
| To err is human; to forgive, divine. | Alexander Pope | 英语 |
| To thine own self, be true. | William Shakespeare | 英语 |
| Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, I took the one less travelled by, and that has made all the difference. | Robert Frost | 英语 |
| United we stand, divided we fall. | Aesop | 希腊语 |
| What doesn't kill us makes us stronger. | Friedrich Nietzsche | 德语 |
| What we've got here is failure to communicate. Some men you just can't reach. | Captain（虚构人物） | 英语 |
| Whatever you are, be a good one. | Abraham Lincoln | 英语 |
| 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 | 英语 |
| You must be the change you wish to see in the world. | Mahatma Gandhi | 英语 |
| You talkin' to me? | Bickle（虚构人物） | 英语 |