Classics Quotes

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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.

There is remedy for all things except death - Don Quixote De La Mancha

Time, which sees all things, has found you out.

Come then, put away your sword in its sheath, and let us two go up into my bed so that, lying together in the bed of love, we may then have faith and trust in each other.

I shall never be converted, and I shall remain true to my old religion of the classics until my life's end.

The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it.

Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?

In the make-up of human beings, intelligence counts for more than our hands, and that is our true strength.

O teach me how I should forget to think (1.1.224)

…but there they lay, sprawled across the field, craved far more by the vultures than by wives.

The last thing he ever said to me was, 'Just always be waiting for me, and then some night you will hear me crowing.

I’ve always found that the better the book I’m reading, the smarter I feel, or, at least, the more able I am to imagine that I might, someday, become smarter.

Rumours voiced by women come to nothing.

If there really is such a thing as turning in one's grave, Shakespeare must get a lot of exercise.

I often stood in front of the mirror alone, wondering how ugly a person could get.

I could read the great books but the great books don't interest me.

I have a Greek-American friend who named her daughter "Nike" and is often asked why she chose to name her offspring after a sneaker.

I do not want to be a relative and passive being, anywhere. I want to live and love and write.

The commercial work of today is the classics of tomorrow.

While art thrives on the blazing colours of scandal, literature blossoms on the dark soil of tragedy.

Learn whom God has ordered you to be, and in what part of human affairs you have been placed.

There are people who, the more you do for them, the less they will do for themseselves.

The modern cheap and fertile press, with all its translations, has done little to bring us nearer to the heroic writers of antiquity.

and love is a word usedtoo much andmuchtoo soon.

It is well known how the monks wrote silly lives of Catholic Saints over the manuscripts on which the classical works of ancient heathendom had been written.

The Biblical language was so deeply embedded in the great man's mind that it became his normal way of speaking.

But I hate to hear you talking so like a fine gentleman, and as if women were all fine ladies, instead of rational creatures. We none of us expect to be in smooth water all our days.

I wish I had done everything on earth with you

Truth is such a rare thing it is delightful to tell it,

Out of the unreal shadows of the night comes back the real life that we had known

Have you ever felt you were born in the wrong decade, or came just a bit too late and missed out on all the good stuff when it was in its heyday?

And what does a person with such romantic temperament seek in the study of the classics?"If by romantic you mean solitary and introspective, I think romantics are frequently the best classicists.

Stars ink your fingerswith a lexicon of flameblazing rare knowledge.

Read the great books, gentlemen, ” Mr. Monte said one day. “Just the great ones. Ignore the others. There’s not enough time.

Don't play with others, or at one day, you will be played by others.

Nothing is Lie until you get to know the truth, as nothing is false in Dream until you get to know that i'm Dreamer.

I have seen or heard of no other man whom destiny treated with such enmity as it did Philoktetes

Move thy tongue, For silence is a sign of discontent.

It was past midnight. From the carpark of the apartment blocks, a human figure with an unsteady gait emerged.

God isn't going to scribble across the sky. "The shark is gone.

Morning and eveningMaids heard the goblins cry:'Come buy our orchard fruits, Come buy, come buy

If you ever looked at me once with what I know is in you, I would be your slave.

Every new book we read in our brief and busy lives means that a classic is left unread.

When Henry handed her a cup of punch she whispered, "If you want to go on with the seniors or anything I'll be alright."Henry smiled at her. "You're my date, Scout.

All books are divisible into two classes: the books of the hours, and the books of all Time.

A classic is read not to enjoy but only to be boast about it.

Unasked, Unsought, Love gives itself but is not bought

I live not in myself, but I becomePortion of that around me: and to meHigh mountains are a feeling, but the humof human cities torture.

The gods do not visit you to remind you what you know already.