Charity Quote by Robert Ardrey

I don't like the word ['classic']. It makes you think we didn't do any work.

— Ralph Lauren

I actually don't like this term, "classic." It's wrong, but we don't have a better word at the moment.

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal…

— Ezra Pound

A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never…

— Edith Wharton

A classic is a classic for a reason. Let's try to create new classics. The idea of repeating ourselves drives me a little crazy.

— Gina Prince-Bythewood

I'm actually in a tradition of classicists with a big public face who like sounding off.

— Mary Beard

I'm really a classicist at heart - with a bit of madness!

— Phillip Lim

Classic, to me, is something thats timeless, enduring. The things that never go out of style. Polo, the kinds of clothes I design are…

— Ralph Lauren

A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again.

— W. E. B. Du Bois

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

— Mark Twain

When all the blandishments of life are gone, The coward sneaks to death, the brave live on.

— George Sewell

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.

— Italo Calvino