Classic Quotes

815 Classic quotes by 616 unique authors

The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence. — Sylvia Plath
Right now Iâ€™m having amnesia and dÃ©jÃ vu at the same time. I think Iâ€™ve forgotten this before. — Steven Wright
The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers. — William Shakespeare
Oh, I am fortune's fool! — William Shakespeare
I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between. — Sylvia Plath
Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him. — Charles Dickens
Trifles make the sum of life. — Charles Dickens
The past is always tense, the future perfect. — Zadie Smith
Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences. — Sylvia Plath
The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes. — Arthur Conan Doyle
I like my first lines short and declarative. No complicated sentences. Of course, that's not really a Scott thing. It's pretty classic grab-the-reader technique. — Scott Westerfeld
There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends. — Sylvia Plath
Oh! that look of love!" continued he, between his teeth, as he bolted himself into his own private room. "And that cursed lie; which showed… — Elizabeth Gaskell
He thought of the number of girls and women she had seen marry, how many homes with children in them she had seen grow up… — Charles Dickens
Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all Iâ€™ve… — Sylvia Plath
The reason for the unreason with which you treat my reason , so weakens my reason that with reason I complain of your beauty. — Miguel de Cervantes
Reader, I married him. — Charlotte Bronte
If you expect nothing from anybody, youâ€™re never disappointed. — Sylvia Plath
Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions. — Frank Lloyd Wright
the same question arose in every soul: "For what, for whom, must I kill and be killed?"... p982 — Leo Tolstoy

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