“I couldn't let you sacrifice yourself for me." "Its not a sacrifice. My ambition has just changed.” — Mariah Marsden Copy Share Image
“Just dealing with flaws, looking into your eyes, and feeling the lip-gloss of your smile, Jenny.” — Akshat Pathak Copy Share Image
“So does a whole world, with all of its greatness and littleness, lie in a twinkling star.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“The author says one character's definition of a classic is any book he'd heard of before he was thirty.” — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Say, you told me you thought Les Miserables was the greatest novel ever written. I think Vanity Fair is the greatest. Let's… — Maud Hart Lovelace Copy Share Image
“Ignoring somebody’s mistakes in life from a powerful position makes you a saint, but the same act (whose intention does not matter),… — Ravindra Shukla Copy Share Image
“So ran the speech. Burdened and sick at heart, He feigned hope in his look, and inwardly Contained his anguish. […] Aeneas,… — Virgil Copy Share Image
“As they walked, it seemed almost every building had some similar contrivance as decoration, adorning the street in a cacophony of clangs,… — A.F. Stewart Copy Share Image
“Life streamed through him in splendid flood, glad and rampant, until it seemed that it would burst him asunder in sheer ecstasy… — Jack London Copy Share Image
I've read a lot of classic literature from assorted cultures, and always glad to read more when one comes across my path… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
I love food. I mean, I really love food. I take pictures of my finest, funniest and most fascinating dishes, post them… — Rachel Nichols Copy Share Image
“I see that my presence is burdensome to you. Painful as it was for me to become convinced of it, I see… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“So, teaching him only that which she loved, not that which she had been taught, Janet read to Gibbie of Jesus, and… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“LONDON. Michaelmas Term lately over, and the Lord Chancellor sitting in Lincoln’s Inn Hall. Implacable November weather. As much mud in the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own. You… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“How many trials and tribulations we have to go through in order to enjoy them as they are now! And even now,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Classic literature is still something that hangs in the air like a song. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Many of the greatest books are like a forest. “The best way to get to know them is to wander right into… — Anthony Esolen Copy Share Image
“I do not know where the error lies. I do not pretend to set people right, but I do see they are… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“On the Day of Judgment , life and death are not determined by the world but by God's wisdom and law” — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledge of classic literature and world… — David Amram Copy Share Image
“It seemed that in Paris you could discuss classic literature or architecture or great music with everyone from the garbage collector to… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
“She holstered her weapon, raising the hem of her skirts and stepping lightly around the dead bodies.” — A.F. Stewart Copy Share Image
“In the face of all his handicaps, Jurgis was obliged to make the price of a lodging, and of a drink every… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
“Like farts and the incorrect retellings of classic literature, racism is a lot cuter when it comes out of a little girl.” — Scaachi Koul Copy Share Image
“Classics aren't books that are read for pleasure. Classics are books that are imposed on unwilling students, books that are subjected to… — Alexei Panshin Copy Share Image
“Rome took all the vanity out of me, for after seeing the wonders there, I felt too insignificant to live, and gave… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“Dantes remained confused and silent by this explanation of the thoughts which had unconsciously been working in his mind, or rather soul;… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
Editors can be stupid at times. They just ignore that author's intention. I always try to read unabridged editions, so much is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Upon the publication of Goethe's epic drama, the Faustian legend had reached an almost unapproachable zenith. Although many failed to appreciate, or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The absence of fatherhood implies the impossibility of brotherhood. It is no accident that Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and Sartre, in addition to Freud,… — Donald De Marco Copy Share Image
“Dear Jim." The writing grew suddenly blurred and misty. And she had lost him again--had lost him again! At the sight of… — Ethel Lillian Voynich Copy Share Image
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