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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

The studios mostly threw away the negatives of the classic films. They had no interest in their legacy. — William Friedkin

Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it? — Mark Twain

Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not be able to abide by the simplest of such injunctions. — Gloria Swanson

Dick Van Dyke was my first idol. He's an amazing physical comedian, like a classic clown, but also very smart and not afraid to show vulnerability. — Douglas Wood

I don't lack for bed partners, so I don't need to scrounge for unwilling scraps.-Spade — Jeaniene Frost

Your country is one of the most notorious centres of trading in endangered species. — Prince Philip

This could only happen in a technical college. — Prince Philip

I was fired from my television job, simple as that. Well, downsized, really, a classic 1990s situation. — Lee Child

For me black is not dark, it's poetic. I don't think of gothic I think of classic - it's a big difference. — Ann Demeulemeester

Many of the greatest books are like a forest. The best way to get to know them is to wander right into the middle and get lost. — Anthony Esolen

For my wardrobe, I like to invest in classic pieces and pair them with more trendy new pieces and accessories each season. — Liya Kebede

I'd like to do a piece of Shakespeare. Any upcoming Shakespeare film. Just a bit to say I did a classic. — Jim Varney

I feel fortunate that I'm not a beauty. I'm not a classic beauty. I feel it is harder for girls who are like that. There are fewer parts. — Olivia Colman

Television is what made It's a Wonderful Life the classic it is today. — Leonard Maltin

Ah, you're the one who wrote the letter. So you can write then? — Prince Philip

Had you behaved in a more gentleman like manner! — Jane Austen

I am just the classic person who wants to learn stuff. I want good tutors, and with Kurt I had the best. — Courtney Love

During my career I've enjoyed re-invigorating and contextualizing classic characters that are relatable to contemporary audiences. — David S.Goyer

Shane was a classic, and you can't find a better bad guy than Jack Palance. — Clint Walker

Radio is paid by advertising. They decide what songs to play that'll keep people listening. And that's what promoters and the Classic Rock people do. — George Thorogood

Ishmael had the posture of a classic general; the intellect of a cab driver. — Jarrett McCall

You can change the feel of your sofa by adding a thick, cozy throw and playing a couple of classic pillows off a more Moroccan-inspired one. — Nate Berkus

Abraham, like his parents, seemed to have been limed and caught by the ensnaring inn. — Thomas Hardy

I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse. — Marlon Brando

Larry Wall's classic Programming Perl described the three programmer's virtues: hubris, laziness, and impatience. — C.J.S. Hayward

A promise fulfilled may be a classic moment, but prophecies mean anticlimax. How much more awesome was an unexpected salvation? — China Mieville

A cult classic is one that has been fully embraced by an alternative audience, not the popular audience. — Bruce Campbell

When you're recording classic songs, you've got to kind of make them your own, and you can't always worry about what people are going to think. — Rebecca Ferguson

Every new book we read in our brief and busy lives means that a classic is left unread. — B.R. Myers

Underestimating one's enemy was a classic tactical mistake
one that was usually born out of stupidity or arrogance or both. (Harry Smith) — Vince Flynn

I think that when a poem can move readers across generations and across its specific class or race then it becomes truly classic. — Rita Dove

I don't believe in balance, not in the classic way. — Marissa Mayer

The most telling thing about 'Fargo,' both the now-classic movie and the television series, is that it doesn't take place in Fargo. — Steve Erickson

He can't face you on an adult level, so he comes along and fucks up your truck. Classic payback method for the tiny-dick type. — Nora Roberts

the middle child's classic tendency to withdraw. — Megan Marshall

There's a lot of your family in tonight. — Prince Philip

I like classics but I always add a twist because I don't like to think of my clothes as classic. — Monique Lhuillier

The author says one character's definition of a classic is any book he'd heard of before he was thirty. — Sinclair Lewis

I had classic technique - one of the best techniques when I was like 10, 12, but then I changed. — Alexandr Dolgopolov

Well, you didn't design your beard too well, did you? — Prince Philip

We makeup artists are a unique bunch of people; we don't have the classic brain, the classic training, but we're creative, so we figure it out. — Bobbi Brown

'Let's Get It On' is a classic Motown single, endlessly repeatable and always enjoyable. — Jon Landau

I was the classic middle child in some ways, the one who could have been a priest in an alternate universe. — Chiwetel Ejiofor

I am interested in classic building development, such as hotels and residential homes, rather than commercial properties. — Yelena Baturina

I was a classic attention deficit disorder kid, always bored and mouthing off at school. — Stephen Rodrick

When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before. — Clifton Fadiman

Peer pressure and social norms are powerful influences on behaviour, and they are classic excuses. — Andrew Lansley

Murray Harris has observed: One of the classic Christian paradoxes is that freedom leads to slavery and slavery leads to freedom. — John F. MacArthur Jr.

He would, wouldn't he? — Mandy Rice-Davies

The classic mode, by contrast, proceeds by reason and by laws - which are themselves underlying forms of thought and behavior. — Robert M. Pirsig

It could be said that the AIDS pandemic is a classic own-goal scored by the human race against itself. — Anne, Queen Of Great Britain

I feel so miserable without you; it's almost like having you here. — Stephen Bishop

It seemed that in Paris you could discuss classic literature or architecture or great music with everyone from the garbage collector to the mayor. — Julia Child

I believe that the essence of good design is its ability to sustain long term integrity, to become classic and create a truly captivating home. — Candice Olson

If it ran, a Bean would shoot it. If it fell, a Bean would eat it. — Carolyn Chute

If I could wear any label forever it would be Burberry. It covers a huge span of stuff. You can't go wrong with a classic trench and a pair of jeans. — Emma Watson

I love the classic crooners, but I got that from my mother - she worked in a record store. — Tori Amos

Were you here in the bad old days? ... That's why you can't read and write then! — Prince Philip

I've always supported new music from classic bands, especially if it's good. — Eddie Trunk

Among the classic tastes: bread sauce, Nuits St Georges Les Perdrix 1962, Worcestershire sauce, Toblerone and Bovril. — Kenneth Tynan

Own company, reading a classic British novel, curled — E.L. James

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. — Jane Austen

Trifles make the sum of life. — Charles Dickens

I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it. — Mark Twain

So this is feminist corner then. — Prince Philip

But matters of the heart are not governed by time. - Thomas Allen, Jenny Kissed Me! — Thomas Allen

The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic. — Gertrude Stein

I am so happy that every generation still tunes into most of the classic and cult films I was lucky to be a part of. — P. J. Soles

Style a classic pencil skirt with on-trend prints to end the week in style. — Lubov Azria

Under Armour is new, aggressive, slick, classic but athletic - kind of how I always wanted to be perceived. — Jordan Spieth

There are a thousand ways of playing a good classic. If it were effective, I would play Hamlet on a trapeze. — Orson Welles

I think timelessness is a very important factor in whatever I do. That's what makes a classic. — Patricia Field

I love the cowbell. I think it's awesome. My family got the cowbell app on their iPhones. It's a classic part of ski racing. — Lindsey Vonn

Folks were doin' a lot of runnin' that night — Harper Lee

There is a classic Zen saying that a wave cannot be separated from the ocean, nor can the ocean be separated from a wave. — David Levy

All the ancient classic fairy tales have always been scary and dark. — Helena Bonham Carter

When I was growing up in school, I wasn't the archetype of the classic American nerd; I was just different. — Andy Biersack

I am a classic 'Star Trek' fanatic. — Rachel Cohn

I had a chance to play for the Cuban national team during the 2009 World Baseball Classic, but at the time I never thought about leaving Cuba. — Yoenis Cespedes

Tonight he was a firm adherent to the classic McCloud school of thought; plant bugs first, apologize later. — Shannon McKenna

That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can't say 'No' in any of them. — Dorothy Parker

Yahoo to me, as the founder of a company, is one of the biggest opportunities you could have; it's one of those classic Internet companies. — Nick D'Aloisio

How may a mortal, face and defeat the Kraken — Beverley Cross

Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance. — Max Eastman

Like a car that's old enough to be old but not old enough to be a classic, it would be years before people would again appreciate the old town square. — K. Martin Beckner

I absolutely love Oscar. So classic. So timeless. — Nicole Richie

A sceptic finds Dallas absurd. A cynic thinks the public doesn't — Clive James

The first album is a classic record and I think the prototype of a sound that no one else does. — Kathy Valentine

If you are going to remake a film, you may as well remake a classic. — Liev Schreiber

I'm not a human anymore — Darren Shan

Only a Scotsman can really survive a Scottish education. — Prince Philip

It's where my mother hopes to read classic novels again one day when she isn't working nine days a week, — A.S. King

It was a classic Nixon move: goad an opponent into attacking, then ride a wave of sympathy s you defend your honour. — Nancy Gibbs; Michael Duffy

There are some things that are never out of fashion because they just look good. But if you want classic style these days you have to get it made. — Jay Kay

Marx set forth a classic statement of inherent class antagonism on the market — Thomas E. Woods Jr.

The 'classic' pig is inspired by northern Italy. It is made up of meat and fat, rosemary and garlic, salt and lots of black pepper. — Bill Buford

I would trade many an art-film classic for the final exchange between Redford and Streisand in front of the Plaza. — Molly Haskell

The Press nowadays is not a literary press; classic diction and brilliancy of style do not distinguish it by any means. — Marie Corelli

It is?classic Bill Clinton, sincere and deceptive at the same time, requiring a careful reading between the lines. — David Maraniss