Books Quote by Gustave Flaubert

To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

— Charles Caleb Colton

When one does something, one must go back to the ancients.

— Marc-Charles-Gabriel Gleyre

All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold up by…

— Tacitus

“While we fancy ourselves going straight forward, and attaining, at every step, an entirely new position of affairs, we do actually return to something…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“This conglomeration of decayed antiquity, collected with the disease of greed, surely invites our charity. It would be better to forget these trumpery ideas,…

— Austin Osman Spare

What we require is not a formal return to tradition and religion, but a rereading, a reinterpretation, of our history that can illuminate the…

— Nawal El Saadawi

“After ten standard months I was done, acknowledging the ancient aphorism to the effect that no book or poem is ever finished, merely abandoned.”

— Dan Simmons

“One makes a great error if one believes there are 'ancients.' Only now is antiquity starting to arise. It arises in the eyes and…

— Novalis

Perhaps the efforts of the true poets, founders, religions, literatures, all ages, have been, and ever will be, our time and times to come,…

— Walt Whitman

Antiquity! I like its ruins better than its reconstructions.

— Joseph Joubert

“The time and moment of Ancient and Medieval is gone, a new change is sought from within by the lifeforce a moment that is…

— Maitreya Rudrabhayananda

“And that through all the ups and downs, nothing really worthwhile is ever permanently lost, even though its creators may be long forgotten. When,…

— Paul Kriwaczek