Egyptian Quotes -175 Famous Egyptian Quotes

A lot of famous Egyptian quotes which written by Egyptians, where Great Egypt and its great sons, whether writers, engineers, poets or writers,

have always been brilliant figures in all areas of its life, especially writers who wrote every position they went through for later generations,

and they had a lot of Egyptian quotes, some of which we will mention in this article.

It was said about Egypt: For the Arabs, Egypt is the heart, and if the heart stops, it will not write to the Arabs’ life.

Here some Egyptian quotes and books you can get some quotes after reading them:

Nageeb Mahfouz books:

A.Boys Of Our Neighborhood

B.Between Kasserine

C.Thief and Dogs

Taha Hussein books:

D.Tree of Misery

E.The Future of Culture in Egypt

G.In Ignorant Poetry

Yahia Haqqi books:

H.Blood and Clay

I.Qandil um Hisham

J.Al-Bustanji

Youseff Idriss books

K.Cheapest Nights

L.Incident honor

M.Honestly, it’s not absolute.

Anees Mansour books

N.Around the World in 200 Days

O.Who landed from the sky

P.Souls and Ghosts

And about my personal experience with these books, I recommend reading my book “Blood and Clay” and “Incident of Honor” which are

characterized by great content and a huge amount of Egyptian quotes you can discover after you have finished reading it.

Some of the famous Egyptian quotes:

Nageeb Mahfouz :

1. There is no fixed truth in the newspapers except the page of death.
2. Some of them are like home, If we miss them, we feel like expatriates.
3. Sometimes your strongest achievement in life is that you are still mentally strong, and you are still dealing with morals, although you are surrounded by countless fools.
4. The most important lesson in life, not to be sad too much no matter what the problem is.
5. I learned from life that wishes do not come on a plate of gold, but with a long quest and beautiful patience.
6. If you injure a person and prolong its silence, make sure that they punish you harsher than words.
7. The bad people in our lives are a blessing because of them we knew the value of the wonderful.
8. Plants do not have a mind, and if you cover them with a box with a hole, they will come out of this hole following the light, but we do not follow the light, and we have brains.
9. Speaking in English with an Arab person like you, it does not indicate at all that you are an educated human being, but that you are an ignorant person of your language, and also deprived of its beauty.
10. No one will miss you as long as you mean nothing to him, that’s what I saw in the people I loved so much.
11. Mostly decisions before bedtime do not wake up with us.
12. They blame you for your most basic actions, but for their actions, there is no eye foresight, no ear to hear, and no conscience feels.
13. Love is not sinful, sin is to manipulate the feelings of some under the name of love.
14. Keep the silly part of your character, the part that makes you laugh for no reason, dance for no reason, cry for no reason, scream for no reason, love for no reason, and hate for no reason.
15. who has life and will, he has everything, and the poorest person has life and will.
16. Watch your actions and do not hurt hearts that are not guilty except that they have sincerely loved you.
17. What hurts you most when you trust someone blindly and this person proves to you that you are actually blind.
18. I don’t like silent love, tell me how much you love me and make me go crazy with you.
19. Don’t regret your silence, we always lose people because of our excessive talk, not because of our excessive silence.
20. Enter people’s homes blindly and get out of them dumb, you have nothing to do with the details of their homes and nothing to do with what you have heard of them.
21. Culture is to know yourself, to know people, to know things and relationships, and as a result, you will behave better in what affects you from the stages of life.
22. Democracy is keen on learning, but the despotic rule is not in its interest to spread science and enlightenment.
23. We inhale corruption with the air, so how do you hope that real hope will emerge from the swamp for us ?!
24. Ethics is not only a system for interaction between people, but it is what organizes society and protects it from chaos
25. In order not to be disappointed, do not draw in your mind that one of them cannot do without you.
26. The Egyptian is the one who loves Egypt
27. “The unique geographical location gave Egypt an advantage among nations equal to the advantage of its civilization among other nations.”

Youseff Idriss:

1. She has an audacity in her eyes that can not be killed until with bullets.
2. The ugliest kind of boredom, the boredom of something you can’t spare like you’re bored of yourself.
3. A big and shy person who is not happy with anything as their happiness when they make fun of themselves and their mistakes.
4. Just asking ourselves: Can we? Just the question is the beginning of a doubt about our ability and our self-confidence.
5. .The mind in its frightened running does not benefit any reasonable
6. The little intellectual is worse than the petty bourgeoisie in his narrow understanding of life and living.
7. Criticism in secret is the bargaining
8. All the freedom available in the Arab world is not enough for a single writer.
9. You have the luxury of living honorable, but others, even if he wants that,he doesn’t have that luxury.
10. Love the reconnaissance, if he takes over the woman, becomes her master, it drives her as it wants.
11. So sane that people understand that I am crazy, Or so crazy that I understand that I am sane.
12. He is ready to believe the forbidden of men, but it is difficult for him to honestly believe that women are forbidden.
13. We demonstrate not only those we love but those we believe love us!
14. Since my father became one leg, my mother has become three legs, ten hands, and 100 tongues.
15. Sometimes a tired person looks attractive from afar.
16. Death is to rotate in one circle no matter what that circle is.
17. We are not happy if we are always relieved, we are happy with the hour of rest if it comes in the middle of a whole day or perhaps a whole life of misery.
18. The ugliest form of boredom, boredom is something that you cannot do without as if you are bored of yourself
19. All the given amount of freedom in the Arab world is not enough for one writer.
20. Just asking ourselves: Can we see? Just asking is the beginning of a doubt about our ability and confidence in ourselves
21. You have the luxury to live honestly, but someone else, even if he wants, does not have this luxury
22. And since my father became one leg, my mother became with three legs, ten hands, and a hundred tongue.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tawfiq Hakeem:

1. The scorpion is born and its poisons in it , You are born pure, and then you make your own poisons, and then you live your life looking for the cure.
2. If you see a ray, I know that there is a planet behind it. If you see literature, I know that there is a civilization behind it. There is no threat to radiation and civilization except the explosion of the planet.
3. If you want to know the morals of a person, consult him or accompany him on the journey.
4. Do you measure the depth of the sea with the finger that probes the depth of the cup?!
5. The problem of humanity, in other words, the whole problem of life is the existence of two sects: a sect that manufactures, and a sect exploits.
6. Many people live long in the past, and the last platform to jump no sofa to relax
7. Our enemy now, neither in heaven nor on earth, our enemy within ourselves. Our enemy is that buried truth.
8. We may have had a lot of answers to what we ask, without knowing or seeing
9. The value and power of individuals and peoples is measured by the amount of movement of thought.
10. The owner of a happy life does not write it. He’s living it.
11. The stomach sleep when the soul wakes up
12. Man’s strongest opponent is always: a ghost, a ghost called (truth).
13. Questions that are not answered remain as self-contained as tormented souls.
14. Take wisdom from the blind, as he does not put his foot on the ground until he is sure of his position with his stick.
15. The voice of truth is sometimes not heard by the ear, nor by the head, but by the heart.
16. Once again, I felt that I no longer recognize the boundaries between the real world and the fantasy world.
17. Politics and religion are a source of strength. In their abuse, it’s dangerous for mental life.
18. Humanity is inferiority, but it is freedom.
19. Vanity is only one of the ignorance faces.
20. The husband is the last to know anything about the reality of the wife’s behavior.
21. When we abolish hunger, you will at the same time abolish man’s bondage to man.
22. Power is the proper use of means for ends

 

Yahia Haqqi:

1. Art is above all the title of the richness of the soul, its close connection to the universe and life.
2. I love the gentle cloud that accepts to melt and says to the summer sun: I will stop your power.
3. The difference in happiness given to humans is in type, not in quantity
4. The only difference between you is that he is honest and you are a hypocrite because you are weak.
5. The artist’s audience only means by producing it, asking for more and more of it, and does not care whether or not it has crashed itself.
6. Art is first the title of the richness of the soul, its close connection with the universe and life.
7. He lives and is true: the difference in the happiness that is granted to humans is in kind, not in size
8. How could your deception not conceal your naivety ?!
9. I am astonished at a person who recommends to others with conviction … and he does not convince him!t

 

Taha Hussein:

1. When science explores these moral germs that spoil friendliness, destroy love, and cut off the strongest connections between people
2. People are always in the will of their desires and the slaves of their passions, and they are influenced by different influences that force them to oppress the living and do not spare them from the oppression of the dead.
3. There are those who do not want people to see the facts of their affairs.
4. Every good work is worship.
5. The best knowledge is to know yourself, and the best manners are that you stand by your side.
6. We will walk again. Strong with this love for the future, which may resemble the past, or maybe it will be better than it is, or maybe it will be worse than it is, but what do we do? Susan, let’s keep going.
7. He hated his brothers laughing, his mother crying, or his father teaching him in a sad calm
8. The university is made up of a free student and a free professor.
9. Those who don’t work, hurt their souls by watching people working.
10. If the morning smiled and the sacrifice shone, and life woke up, all the horrors were melted.
11. The real position cannot stand the neutrality between right and wrong or between freedom and enslavement.
12. 75.Friends three layers: layer as the food we do not dispense with. And a layer like medicine we only need sometimes. And a layer like a disease we never need.
13. One maybe stupid in nature, but stupidity is stupid of heart.
14. Since he heard her voice, his heart has not known the pain.
15. Tears of love. drops of a river in paradise.
16. Happiness is the strange feeling that we have when the circumstances of life distract us from being tired.
17. Hopes don’t always believe their owners, but they often lie
18. If man had been created in full, he would not need to aspire to perfection.
19. Homesick doesn’t go away, no one knows he’s new or old.
20. 83.If the love of the poll is useful at some time, it may harm each other
21. 84.Money comes in the morning and goes at night.
22. When science explores these intangible germs that spoil affection, destroy love, and cut off the most reliable connections between people
23. 40.Taha Hussein: The best knowledge to you is to know yourself and the best manners to stand at your limit.
24. 41.Taha Hussein: If the people had taught him when he lied his first lie, he would not have returned to lying again
25. 42. Taha Hussein: Friends are three layers: a layer like food that we cannot do without … a layer like medicine that we only need sometimes … and a layer like a disease that we never need.
26. Beware of being content with yourself, for it forces you to lethargy, and beware of wondering, because it implicates you in foolishness, and beware of vanity, it shows people all your shortcomings and does not hide them.

Salah Abdel-Sabour

1. “In a country where the law does not rule, People go to prison by pure chance, There is no future
2. In a country where poverty expands, as a snake grows in the sand There is no future ”

Ehasan Abd-Alqoddos:

1. Keep the one you love, reproach him if you want him, take care of all his details, love is a feeling before he has words.
2. 86.Shocks are two types: one opens the head, the other opens the mind.
3. When I read a book, I do not read lines, but live with spirits.
4. 88.Always remember to sleep on a dream and wake up on a goal.
5. Books are like people: the good and the funny, the naïve and the honest, the writer and the sinner, the traitor, the ignorant, the scruffy, and the immoral!
6. 90.Friends are small homelands, the second face of love, love that does not change.
7. The greatest punishment a man can be punished: to have the same hope.
8. 92.They dig your defect on copper and write your virtues on the water.
9. The honest people in their emotions do not care about appearances.
10. Experiments are not read in books, but books help to benefit from experiences.
11. Reading alone gives one person more than one life, because it deepens this life, although it does not prolong it by the amount of calculation.

Abbas Mahmoud Al-Akkad

1. It has never happened that the sense of morals motivated nations to jihad as much as the religious sense stimulated it.
2. There is no difference between betrayal of conscience and betrayal of reality except execution
3. The envious is not the one who seeks to equal you by being promoted to you. Rather, it is he who wants to equal it by descending to him
4. Reason is restricted to reason, and reason is not restricted to logic.

Qasim Amin

1. One of the manifestations of contempt for a woman is that he imprisons her in a house and be proud that she does not come out of it except carrying on the coffin to the grave.
2. A woman must be educated to find her happiness and misery in herself and not in others
3. In the weak and enslaved nation, the tool of exile (not) is of little use.
4. Happiness is a ball that we kick with our feet when we approach it and run after it when it turns away from us
5. A man is in his old age, as his mother had prepared him in his childhood.

 

Khairy Shalabi

1. The secret of success is literature, even if it is false literature with no basis or chapter.
2. The coincidence is the product of the movement of law invisible to us
3. Indeed, the servant, terrified of his master’s power, remains a blind weapon in the hand of his master
4. Your future depends on your life starting from where you have nothing at all

More Egyptian quotes

1. Jalal Amer: In Egypt, only a meter of the land is for half a pound. They dealt tomatoes for ten pounds
2. Reem Bassiouni: How can we dream? In a country that discovered the secret of mummification and was proud of it.
3. Alaa Aswani: What is spreading in Egypt is not a true religion, but a collective psychological depression accompanied by religious symptoms
4. Yousri Fouda: O woe, a nation whose small is big and the big is small.
5. Qassem Amin: A true patriot does not speak much and does not announce itself.
6. Omar Taher: “The days when the people will be truly aware of the value of those who have died, and the revolutionaries are all the people so that no one is tied between them, and the days that will make what we live in now pages of the history book were difficult, but the faithful on all fronts are the ones who help everyone get through it. ”
7. Murid Al-Barghouti: No one knows what is going on in its blue heart, from thoughts.”
8. Ahmed Murad: “People do not believe, and if they believe they forget. Like a child who cries with heart and screams, and then laughs after a moment. As if nothing had happened.
9. Khairy Shalabi: “I am in distress … what future can we expect? For any serious work in this time full of decadence and corruption, and foolish creatures whose only concern is to eat, drink, marry and reproduce in an insane manner
10. Talal Faisal: “Egypt is not a country in which we live, but it is a comic strip that is seven thousand years old, but it began since the first alliance in which the priests convinced the people that Pharaoh was receiving a sacred revelation from an unknown place.”
11. Ahmed Youssef: One of the revolution’s achievements is that Zamalek beats Al-Ahly
12. Nemat Fuad: Egypt may get sick … but not die!
13. Louis Minard: “Are you ignorant, Asclepius, that Egypt is the image of the sky, or is it rather a projection on earth of all the order of things of heaven? If you want to tell the truth, then our earth is the temple of the world. ”
14. Muhammad Qandil: In a country where lies never end
15. Ahmed Youssef: The embrace of Egypt and its heart is open to all the world except its children and its people
16. Muhammad al-Qandil: “This is always the case in our town when people gather for any purpose, it turns into a demonstration, and as long as there is a demonstration, all the old wounds are opened and all the demands are raised.”
17. Ahmed Youssef: “The difference between a crazy person and a normal person has become … that a madman walks and talks to himself in a loud voice .. As for the ordinary person, he walks talking to himself, but in his secret !!”
18. Issam Mansour: “Which country is this? I am ready to offer my life as a sacrifice for (Egypt), but are we fighting for (Egypt) or for the sake of the Sultan? ”
19. Hofhaifah Hammouda: “Our Damascus was raped, Baghdad betrayed it and handed it over, our Egypt was sold, and from Palestine, peace be upon you, and we are still praising the Arab countries, my country?”
20. Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh: “ prison of Abo-Zaabal is better than staying outside Egypt.”
21. Alaa Aswani: “The most beautiful thing in Egypt is its soul, and the soul is indefinable”
22. Fouad Haddad: people of one country Under the one sky
23. Enter the garden and pick the rose.
24. Ahmed Khaled Tawfiq: “There are those who decided to burn Egypt permanently under the pretext of the revolution, and those who object are from the Elkaba party, the cowards or the enemies of the revolution.”
25. Sayyid Qutb: “The English’s first job in this country was to kill morale.”
26. Adham Hamdy: “The chief who has two groups is drowning”
27. Ahmed Raza: “Corruption is the enemy of young people, even if some of them benefit from it, where it is the path decreed in advance to ascend, and where talents are placed on the shelves, the young generation loses its vitality and desire to experiment and adventure, and it will grow old prematurely
28. Ahmed Zobel: “If the Nobel Prize had been known six thousand years ago when the civilization of ancient Egypt emerged, or even two thousand years ago when his office and the ancient University of Alexandria were established, Egypt would have won many Nobel prizes in the field of science.”
29. Shadi Kandil: “In Egypt, there are people who are not satisfied even though they are living, and there are people who do not live yet are satisfied!”
30. Manar Hani: “Egypt does not need a president to rule it
31. Aziz Nour: “Honestly, a rich infidel is better than a pious, mediocre one, but there are stages of disbelief that are worse than suicide.”
32. Aziz Nour: “Some politicians have pursued politics because they failed in other jobs, and this is not a defect, but the shame is to act as an amateur politician.”
33. Sherihan Tohami: “My trip to Europe was like a slap in the face … I had thought that I had reached the level of knowledge and familiarity with the world and its people to the point that I felt satisfied, and suddenly Paris came to me with its charm, Amsterdam with its indecisiveness, Brussels with its spontaneity, and Frankfurt with its restlessness, and I discovered The painful truth …. which is that I am “the righteousness of the world”

finally, a lot of thanks for these Egyptian quotes which are very great and very perfect to understand life better we know about it.