Classic Quotes

815 Classic quotes by 616 unique authors

This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
I don't think of myself as a metafictional writer at all. I think of myself as a classic writer, a realist writer, who tends to… — Paul Auster
Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree. — Dean Acheson
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. — Jane Austen
Gerald Boyd was a classic specimen of the self-made man. Born poor, he worked and studied his way up out of poverty under the guidance… — Russell Baker
I love inventive food, but I want the classic dishes to taste like how I remember them. I get a little bummed out when there… — Drew Barrymore
I just signed to do my next book with Ecco Press, a new primer or encyclopedia. This will be my take on what classic Italian… — Mario Batali
Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have. — Alan Bennett
A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again. — W. E. B. Du Bois
I used to be a classic workaholic, and after seeing how little work and career really mean when you reach the end of your life,… — Mitch Albom
People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world. — Louisa May Alcott
A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say. — Italo Calvino
I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive. — Joseph Campbell
The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday - but never jam today. — Lewis Carroll
All the ancient classic fairy tales have always been scary and dark. — Helena Bonham Carter
After forty a woman has to choose between losing her figure or her face. My advice is to keep your face, and stay sitting down. — Barbara Cartland
I was fired from my television job, simple as that. Well, downsized, really, a classic 1990s situation. — Lee Child
I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me. — Kurt Cobain
Personally, I consider 'Titanic' the most brilliant example of successful counterprogramming; the film actually countered itself by embedding an epic chick flick within a classic… — Diablo Cody
I am deeply devoted to the 27,000 songs I can take anywhere on my iPod Classic as well as the exquisitely engineered MacBook Air on… — Eric Alterman
I'm a classic emerald green Sixties Jaguar that nobody can own, but my husband is allowed to drive. — Tori Amos
I love the classic crooners, but I got that from my mother - she worked in a record store. — Tori Amos
We do hear perhaps too many accolades generally aimed at people like Steve Jobs. We have to remember that there are other classic things in… — Ian Anderson
It's all about being comfortable, being easy and having you be able to wear something and not having it wear you. It's classic. Every time… — Jennifer Aniston
That's the classic nature of people, though. We'll skip the basics and get pissed when the sexy stuff doesn't work. — Martyn Rooney

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