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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
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
I don't lack for bed partners, so I don't need to scrounge for unwilling scraps.-Spade
— Jeaniene Frost
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
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
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
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
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
'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
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
I love the classic crooners, but I got that from my mother - she worked in a record store.
— Tori Amos
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
So this is feminist corner then.
— Prince Philip
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
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
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
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
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
Marx set forth a classic statement of inherent class antagonism on the market
— Thomas E. Woods Jr.
I would trade many an art-film classic for the final exchange between Redford and Streisand in front of the Plaza.
— Molly Haskell
