Classic Literature Quotes: top 32 famous quotes about Classic Literature

Classic Literature Quotes & Sayings

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I've never met anyone as kind as you are, except me Mum, o' course." --Benjamin Trimmel to Lady Alexandra. — Lisa M. Prysock

So does a whole world, with all of its greatness and littleness, lie in a twinkling star. — Charles Dickens

Classic literature is still something that hangs in the air like a song. — G.K. Chesterton

The moon shone upon his almost transparent hands, and Stephen saw that the nails were fearfully long and that the light shone through them. — M.R. James

Seaward ho! Hang the treasure! It's the glory of the sea that has turned my head. — Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledge of classic literature and world politics. — David Amram

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

Literature begins with the possible model of experience, and what it produces is the literary model we call the classic. — Northrop Frye

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

On the Day of Judgment , life and death are not determined by the world but by God's wisdom and law — John Bunyan

That is a compliment which gives me no pleasure. — Jane Austen

You'll have to do better than that chaps, if you want to kill me! — A.F. Stewart

The classic literature is always modern. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Rationality is the way to lead life. So high time,
let's stop feeding our dreams and shake hands with the reality. — Parul Wadhwa

The village was shutting its eyes. Candles and lamps were being put out everywhere: she could inwardly behold the extinguisher and the extended hand. — Thomas Hardy

That child of Hell had nothing human; nothing lived in him but fear and hatred. — Robert Louis Stevenson

She holstered her weapon, raising the hem of her skirts and stepping lightly around the dead bodies. — A.F. Stewart

A statement that is repugnant to one's beliefs can be as true as one that is pleasurable. — Taylor Caldwell

Nobody could have put her in the shade, blown out her light that evening; she was too evidently shining. — Elizabeth Von Arnim

As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again. — Margaret Mitchell

The horizon bounded by a propitious sky, azure, marbled with pearly white. — Charlotte Bronte

Scarlett O'Hara wasn't pretty. — Margaret Mitchell

...a lone genius might create a classic work of art or literature, but he could never create an entire industry. — Peter Thiel

Follow those rats! They may lead us back to Muggins! — A.F. Stewart

Keep your friends close but your enemies closer. — Mario Puzo

After all, tomorrow is another day! — Margaret Mitchell

A way a lone a last a loved a long the - — James Joyce

Say, you told me you thought Les Miserables was the greatest novel ever written. I think Vanity Fair is the greatest. Let's fight. - Joe Willard — Maud Hart Lovelace

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

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

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