I was raised on the classics - Jules Verne, H.G. Wells…

I was interested in all kinds of things, whether it be Avatar, Mad Men, Troy, 300, Battlestar Gallactica, or the poems of Horace and…

— Daniel Mendelsohn

“So it is that in our world hopes are thwarted at every turn and the people's lot is always pain.”

— Royall Tyler

It's so important your customer can rely on you for your classics.

— L'Wren Scott

Professors of classics - not even a professor of English - professors of classics, they're something sacred; it's almost like being a priest.

— Erich Segal

“You don't know what your life is, nor what you're doing, nor who you are.”

— Euripides

I like a lot of movies. I like all types of genres. I like the classics - comedy, action.

— Danny Green

“Poirot, watching him, felt suddenly a doubt--an uncomfortable twinge. Was there, here, something that he had missed? Some richness of the spirit? Sadness crept…

— Agatha Christie

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

— Aman Jassal

“Betsy was so full of joy that she had to be alone. She went upstairs to her bedroom and sat down on Uncle Keith's…

— Maud Hart Lovelace

“You are too generous to trifle with me.”

— Jane Austen

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

— Usama Ejaz

“Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life.' 'You really must not say things like that before Dorian, Harry.' 'Before which Dorian?…

— Oscar Wilde

“They always looked back before turning the corner, for their mother was always at the window to nod and smile, and wave her hand…

— Louisa May Alcott

I can trace my interest in modern classics to the summer before art college.

— Emma Healey

“Those who have not learned to read the ancient classics in the language in which they were written must have a very imperfect knowledge…

— Henry David Thoreau