Classics Quotes

154 quotes by 142 authors

I like reading... French, Russian classics - Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Flaubert. I also like Hemingway, Virginia Woolf. — Andrea Bocelli
Even the classics that we read to our young children are full of wolves' fangs and burning ovens and bloody feet and ice shards piercing… — Geraldine Brooks
I have always admired the work of Phil Farmer and was glad for the chance to work with him. Readers today may be too young… — Piers Anthony
In art, the public accept what has been, because they cannot alter it, not because they appreciate it. They swallow their classics whole, and never… — Oscar Wilde
The study of science teaches young men to think, while study of the classics teaches them to express thought. — John Stuart Mill
Read the classics one hour every day, drunk or sober. Reading the classics gives one a feeling of confidence. It familiarizes one with the vagaries… — Richard Haynes
Now that I'm taking some time off from school, I've been reading a lot to make sure I don't forget everything. It's mostly classics and… — Fred Savage
I don't read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics. — Richard Attenborough
Realize, how many classics I gave you/Perhaps if you think back you'll realize that I made you — Nas
The great thing about university is that they incline you to get up and do it, from the Classics to modern plays, to the humor… — Michael York
Style, no matter how outrageous it is, is still an expression of someone's personality. And my personality is somewhere stuck in the classics. — Liev Schreiber
They [Narnia] are, perhaps, the greatest classics of childrenâ€™s literature of the twentieth century. — Douglas Gresham
I chose Sony Classics, not just because of their practical experience, not just because of their wisdom in marketing, but mainly because of their integrity. — Arthur Cohn
Most of the literary classics are worth reading, if you've nothing better to do. — Edward Abbey
Most of what we call the classics of world literature suggest artifacts in a wax museum. We have to hire and pay professors to get… — Edward Abbey
I grew up with the classics. My mom and I would sit and watch 'Singin' in the Rain' and 'White Christmas' - those kind of… — Lucas Grabeel
Better mendacities Than the classics in paraphrase! Some quick to arm, some for adventure, some from fear of weakness, some from fear of censure, some… — Ezra Pound
Even my failures make money and become classics a year after I make them. — Alfred Hitchcock
With the Stray Cats at least, we really took the music somewhere else. First, we wrote our own songs. That's a real weak point in… — Brian Setzer
A shelf of classics for our young adults: Tolkien, Hesse, Casteneda, Kerouac, Salinger, Tom Robbins, and _The Last Whole Earth Catalog_. — Edward Abbey

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