'Basic Black with Pearls' contains overt references to Virginia Woolf and covert ones to feminist classics like Kate Chopin's 'The Awakening' and… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time there was a little prince who lived on a planet scarcely bigger than himself and who had need… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
“Considering thus how much honor is awarded to antiquity, and how many times—letting pass infinite other examples—a fragment of an ancient statue… — Niccolò Machiavelli Copy Share Image
I'm a little old-school in that I think there's some value in the classics and the steps of achieving a certain profession.… — Roy Choi Copy Share Image
Darwin himself, in his day, was unable to fight free of the theoretical errors of which he was guilty. It was the… — Trofim Lysenko Copy Share Image
I've played the Greek classics; I've played the English classics. I promise you, I'm not complacent, because I hope to be playing… — Diana Rigg Copy Share Image
Katherine Parkinson has got a classics degree from Cambridge yet is an idiot - in the best possible way. — Alex Horne Copy Share Image
“I have a feeling that you’re riding for some kind of terrible, terrible fall. . . . The whole arrangement’s designed for… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Do you know that, maybe, I shall leave off grieving over the crime and sin of my life? for such a life… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Pearls' burst out the Snork Maiden excitedly. 'Could ankle rings be made out of pearls?' 'I should think they could,' said Moomintoll.… — Tove Jansson Copy Share Image
“In the eighties, when she chiefly flourished, husbands were taken seriously, as the only real obstacles to sin. Beds too, if they… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
“In order to witness clearly the march of humanity from its inception to the present moment, an understanding of how humankind has… — Roger D. Woodard Copy Share Image
While art thrives on the blazing colours of scandal, literature blossoms on the dark soil of tragedy. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Classics are constantly being re-imagined and transformed, and the originals are none the worse for it; they endure. — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Introductions, that is, belong to the masterpieces and classics of the world, to the great and ancient and accepted things; and I… — Arthur Machen Copy Share Image
I shouldn't be surprised if John Cleese's scripts don't become set texts for examinations-they're classics. And I can't tell you how service… — Prunella Scales Copy Share Image
“Anger was buried far too early in a young heart, which perhaps contained much good.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
Darling, when you're as old as I am, you cherish the very few musicals that have come your way that you know… — Cameron Mackintosh Copy Share Image
I loved every minute of my three years majoring in classics at Berkeley. — Caroline Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Whoa, son,” said Atticus. “Nobody’s about to make you go anywhere but to bed pretty soon. I’m just going over to tell… — Harper Lee To Kill A Mockingbird Copy Share Image
“She had come to that state where the horror of the universe and its smallness are both visible at the same time—the… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
If you're wearing Reebok classics, then you're going through a midlife crisis. I don't want to catch you wearing these in the… — Big Narstie Copy Share Image
'King Lear,' I've been seeing all my life. I mean, the great actors of my lifetime... to join their company, as it… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
My husband is a graduate of two Ivy League universities - with a degree in Classics! - and he sounds like a… — Faith Salie Copy Share Image
