By the Angel, it just crushed Sophocles," noted Will. "Has no one respect for the classics these days? — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Contrary to many young Colleagues, I do believe that it makes sense to study the Classics. — Magnus Carlsen Copy Share Image
Paperbacks of those we deem classics should be cheap and sold at supermarkets. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“Reader, I married him. A quiet wedding we had: he and I, the parson and clerk, were alone present.” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things can not be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If you Google a list and just see all the movies that came out in 1984, they're classics, and they define that decade. — Adam F. Goldberg Copy Share Image
You know that you can't make references to the Classics any longer and less and less to the English classics even. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Art is universal. When works of art become classics, it is because they transcend geographical boundaries, racial barriers and time. — John Kani 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
“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
“The thing is, what I’m tryin‘ to say is— they do get on a lot better without me, I can’t help them… — Harper Lee To Kill A Mockingbird 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
“They too, knew this beautiful and harrowing landscape; they'd had the same experience of looking up from their books with fifth-century eyes… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“Of course he chanted with the rest: it was impossible to do otherwise. To dissemble your feelings, to control your face, to… — George Orwell 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
What interests me is the idea that classics is actually quite democratic. It isn't only the toff, upper-class subject it's often thought… — Mary Beard 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
“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
“You think all existence lapses in as quiet a flow as that in which your youth has hitherto slid away. Floating on… — Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre Copy Share Image
“Every young lady may feel for my heroine in this critical moment, for every young lady has at some time or other… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“What happened to the classics?" you may ask. "Don't you believe in reading great literature to children?" Nothing happened to the classics-but… — Jim Trelease Copy Share Image
“For fortune having hitherto seconded him in his designs, made him resolute and firm in his opinions, and the boldness of his… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
“You aren’t really a nigger-lover, then, are you?” “I certainly am. I do my best to love everybody… I’m hard put, sometimes—baby,… — Harper Lee To Kill A Mockingbird Copy Share Image
“As Tom Robinson gave his testimony, it came to me that Mayella Ewell must have been the loneliest person in the world.… — Harper Lee To Kill A Mockingbird Copy Share Image
“They did go on so, don't you think, those Victorian poets, they took themselves so horribly seriously?' he said, pushing the lift… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
Federal law, implemented by the Federal Communications Commission, helped kill network broadcasts of Scooby-Doo, Bugs Bunny and their modern equivalents, while effectively… — Michael O'Rielly 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
I like songs that sound like classics. There are songs that might be cooler or have better production, but I like songs… — Alexa Ray Joel Copy Share Image
The ideas of the classics, so far as living, are our commonplaces. It is the modern books that give us the latest… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
I love a lot of comedy movies. I think I fell in love with comedy when I was younger. My brother and… — Sarah Wright Copy Share Image
“It is well known how the monks wrote silly lives of Catholic Saints over the manuscripts on which the classical works of… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
As an undergraduate, I studied the Greek and Roman classics, and I went to graduate school in classics intending to work on… — Martha Nussbaum 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
Read the classics one hour every day, drunk or sober. Reading the classics gives one a feeling of confidence. It familiarizes one… — Richard Haynes 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
“There is no light. I don't feel like starting my generator. I used to get a big kick out saving people's lives.… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
And what would happen if we never read the classics? There comes a point in life, it seems to me, where you… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“I don't believe fine young ladies enjoy themselves a bit more than we do, in spite of our burned hair, old gowns,… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
I think people that came out originally, like 2Pac, Biggie, Snoop Dogg,, and even T.I. and Ludacris, they were original with their… — Tyron Woodley Copy Share Image
I do love the provocative side of my collection, but I also like the classics - the simpler skirts and the sweater… — Thom Browne Copy Share Image
