“So it is that in our world hopes are thwarted at every turn and the people's lot is always pain.” — Royall Tyler Copy Share Image
Professors of classics - not even a professor of English - professors of classics, they're something sacred; it's almost like being a… — Erich Segal Copy Share Image
“You don't know what your life is, nor what you're doing, nor who you are.” — Euripides Copy Share Image
I like a lot of movies. I like all types of genres. I like the classics - comedy, action. — Danny Green Copy Share Image
“Poirot, watching him, felt suddenly a doubt--an uncomfortable twinge. Was there, here, something that he had missed? Some richness of the spirit?… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“Betsy was so full of joy that she had to be alone. She went upstairs to her bedroom and sat down on… — Maud Hart Lovelace Copy Share Image
“Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life.' 'You really must not say things like that before Dorian, Harry.' 'Before… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“They always looked back before turning the corner, for their mother was always at the window to nod and smile, and wave… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
I can trace my interest in modern classics to the summer before art college. — Emma Healey Copy Share Image
“Those who have not learned to read the ancient classics in the language in which they were written must have a very… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Perhaps anything that he did would have pleased Lucy, but his awkwardness went straight to her heart.” — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“No code mattered to her before she broke it, but it came crashing down on her afterwards." - Atticus Finch” — Harper Lee To Kill A Mockingbird Copy Share Image
I'm a huge fan of 'The Lost Weekend.' I have this dog-eared copy of the 1963 Time Reading Program edition, which was… — Blake Bailey Copy Share Image
My mum is great for keeping hold of old classics - pieces of clothing that never age and never go out of… — Amber Le Bon Copy Share Image
“Contudo, o mais corajoso dentre nós tem medo de si mesmo. A mutilação do selvagem tem a sua trágica sobrevivência na própria… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“There is something in expressly touching in nature round Petersburg, when at the approach of spring she puts forth all her might,… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“The man seemed not to have heard him. ‘At this life-giving time of the year, Professor Scrooge,’ said the pastor, clicking his… — Ashley Elizabeth Blair Tetzlaff Copy Share Image
“I liked to call myself a poet and had affected a habit of reading classical texts (in translation, of course – I… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
It is in the elements that we found ourselves; even though the elements are not the, same Now. — Jerril Thomas Abraham Copy Share Image
Coming at twenty to his father's house, which was a very sink of filthy debauchery, he, chaste and pure as he was,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Ut haec ipsa qui non sentiat deorum vim habere is nihil omnino sensurus esse videatur." If any man cannot feel the power… — Horace Copy Share Image
“I tought how tragic it would be if you were wasted. For there is such a little time that your youth will… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
