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But we must stem the tide of malice, and pour into the wounded bosoms of each other the balm of sisterly consolation. — Jane Austen

Style, no matter how outrageous it is, is still an expression of someone's personality. And my personality is somewhere stuck in the classics. — Liev Schreiber

The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it. — Benjamin Disraeli

We should imitate the great classics. We would miss, and that miss would be our originality. — Raymond Radiguet

Science is vastly more stimulating to the imagination than the classics. — John B. S. Haldane

The thought of what America would be like
If the Classics had a wide circulation
Troubles my sleep (Cantico del Sole) — Ezra Pound

The Biblical language was so deeply embedded in the great man's mind that it became his normal way of speaking. — Elton Trueblood

The gods do not visit you to remind you what you know already. — Mary Stewart

In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern. — Amy Lowell

In the make-up of human beings, intelligence counts for more than our hands, and that is our true strength. — Ovid

The modern cheap and fertile press, with all its translations, has done little to bring us nearer to the heroic writers of antiquity. — Henry David Thoreau

of the classics. Most he finished, some he didn't. He — Tony Healey

Classics can be phenomenal when done right. A simple roast chicken dish could be the best thing you ever eat. — Joe Bastianich

It is the best way to write poetry, letting things come. -Winnie-the-Pooh — A.A. Milne

They [Narnia] are, perhaps, the greatest classics of children's literature of the twentieth century. — Douglas Gresham

Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race. — Henry Miller

The type of music I like to sing is really those classic songs, those Barbara Streisand, Celine Dion, Frank Sinatra, classics. — Jacob Lusk

Look to the Classics, History, to the Arts, for there is truth. Look away from the systems, the processes, the techniques. — Charles Guggenheim

Out of the unreal shadows of the night comes back the real life that we had known — Oscar Wilde

I had been tricked once by that Cheat called love, but the Game was over ... — Daniel Defoe

We pore through libraries, dissecting the classics Henry Sturges- vampire — Seth Grahame-Smith

God isn't going to scribble across the sky. The shark is gone. — Peter Benchley

Today it is not the classroom nor the classics which are the repositories of models of eloquence, but the ad agencies. — Marshall McLuhan

I like the classics! — Greg Kinnear

You have to know the classics if you want to cook modern food. — Tom Colicchio

Have any sheep been seen walking out of the Library with seagoing adventurers clinging to their wool? — Lindsey Davis

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose — Mary Shelley

If the spark doesn't come, that's a pity; but we do not read the classics out of duty or respect, but only out of love. — Italo Calvino

I shall never be converted, and I shall remain true to my old religion of the classics until my life's end. — Richard Strauss

When I say to the Moment flying;
'Linger a while
thou art so fair!'
Then bind me in thy bonds undying,
And my final ruin I will bear! — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Mama, the more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. — Jane Austen

I am going to stand against him now, though his hands are like flame, though his hands are like flame, and his heart like the shining of iron. — Homer

What cannot be borne in reality, becomes a source of pleasure when it is transposed into the visual and somatic fiction of the dramatic spectacle. — Claude Calame

Most of the literary classics are worth reading, if you've nothing better to do. — Edward Abbey

When I tour with the new album, I still do the classics, and I love the atmosphere it creates with the whole audience singing along. — Bonnie Tyler

Vera incessu patuit dea.
(The goddess indubitable was revealed in her step.) — Virgil

I grew up with the classics. My mom and I would sit and watch 'Singin' in the Rain' and 'White Christmas' - those kind of movies. — Lucas Grabeel

Morning and evening
Maids heard the goblins cry:
'Come buy our orchard fruits,
Come buy, come buy — Christina Rossetti

The last thing he ever said to me was, 'Just always be waiting for me, and then some night you will hear me crowing. — J.M. Barrie

The classics tell us that, in relationships, the one between teacher and student comes second only to the one between parent and child. — Lisa See

I owe the little formal education I got to my drama teacher, Mr. Pickett, who got us to read Shakespeare, Moliere, and other classics. — Dennis Quaid

The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine. — Stephen Leacock

It is a fact that the classics of Yiddish literature are also the classics of the modern Hebrew literature. — Isaac Bashevis Singer

Read the great books, gentlemen," Mr. Monte said one day. "Just the great ones. Ignore the others. There's not enough time. — Pat Conroy

By reading older books we get a taste of the conversation of Heaven. — John Mark Reynolds

her book. Ngaio Marsh. Myrna was re-reading the classics. — Louise Penny

He had put on the best-looking uniform that he could, thinking that...victory deserved the best-looking armour. — Xenophon

In my high-minded and naive way, I believed the only books worth reading were the classics. — Maria Semple

Do not help the quick moneymakers who have delusions about taking possession of classics by smearing them with paint. — Frank Capra

Confucius - or Kongzi, which means Master Kong - was not born to power, but his idiosyncrasies and ideas made him the Zelig of the Chinese classics. — Evan Osnos

I'd somehow always thought of the classics of literature as something apart from me, something to do with academic life and not something you enjoyed. — Alan Bennett

... There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover's whisper, irresistible - magic to make the sanest man go mad. — Homer

Some of my favorite songs
and I don't know if this is the right terminology
are white-boy classics. — Shaquille O'Neal

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

Got on! Got on! It's not a question of getting on. That's the wrong view altogether. The Classics aren't a ladder leading to quick success. — Agatha Christie

I don't fly to the classics for comfort, as Giles does. I'm too frivolous. Worthy people always read the classics when things are difficult. — Elizabeth Goudge

Classics postures, when practiced with discrimination and awareness, bring the body, mind, and consciousness into a single, harmonious whole. — B.K.S. Iyengar

While art thrives on the blazing colours of scandal, literature blossoms on the dark soil of tragedy. — E.A. Bucchianeri

It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them. — Erica Jong

The commercial work of today is the classics of tomorrow. — Orson Scott Card

My mom was one of the original designers for Coach in the eighties, and she designed some classics, including the City Bag. It's the only bag I use! — Jane Levy

Nothing is Lie until you get to know the truth, as nothing is false in Dream until you get to know that i'm Dreamer. — The Ek

When I was 20 I was immensely proud of the rows of grey-spined Penguin Modern Classics in my bookcase. — Linda Grant

I didn't want to be a catcher. It was thrust upon me, as they say in the classics. — Mickey Cochrane

Have you ever felt you were born in the wrong decade, or came just a bit too late and missed out on all the good stuff when it was in its heyday? — E.A. Bucchianeri

I kinda go for the Jane Eyre type of film. I am fascinated by classics. — Tippi Hedren

Read everything. Read fiction and non-fiction, read hot best sellers and the classics you never got around to in college. — Jennifer Weiner

The promise, therefore, was given, and must be performed. — Jane Austen

Remember this: classics never make a comeback. They wait for that perfect moment to take the spotlight from overdone, tired trends. — Tabatha Coffey

Ask not the elves for advice, because they will tell you both 'yes' and 'no'. — J.R.R. Tolkien

I like to spoof the original Gothic classics, so there is also good dose of comedy in the 'Parasol Protectorate' - giggling readers are good. — Gail Carriger

The study of science teaches young men to think, while study of the classics teaches them to express thought. — John Stuart Mill

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

Off the court, I tend to stick to the classics, but I like to have fun with color and accessories. I'm from Spain, so colors are important for me. — Tommy Hilfiger

I don't read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics. — Richard Attenborough

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

For the classics philosophical insight was the product of a life of leisure; for me a life of leisure is the product of philosophical insight. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Classics which at home are drowsily read have a strange charm in a country inn, or in the transom of a merchant brig. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

but she studied classics, the most pointless subject in the university. — Natasha Pulley

Juilliard's mission statement is learn about the classics so you can use that as a springboard to anything that comes your way. — Daniel Breaker

Most of the time, I don't watch classics with anybody. I have to be by myself. That's my classroom. — M. Night Shyamalan

A classic is the term given to any book which comes to represent the whole universe, a book on a par with ancient talismans. — Italo Calvino

She loved the classics and believed in reading out loud. — Terry Tempest Williams

I could read the great books but the great books don't interest me. — Charles Bukowski

He read the classics, the French and the German among others, but primarily the Russian, which enchanted him with their heavy patience. — Tove Jansson

You know, one of the classics when somebody invents something, you go why the hell didn't I think of that. — Anthony Head

The classics can console. But not enough. — Derek Walcott

There is nothing alive more agonized than man / of all that breathe and crawl across the earth. — Homer

She pronounced the word married as if her voice caressed it. It seemed a rustling covert leading to enchanted glades. — Edith Wharton

You're familiar with the tragedies of antiquity, are you? The great homicidal classics? — Tom Stoppard

The Midnight Palace is a great place on the web for the very best on Hollywood Classics! — Keith Thibodeaux

All books are divisible into two classes: the books of the hours, and the books of all Time. — John Ruskin

People expect me to do the classics, and it is a lot like playing a favorite song. — Frank Caliendo

Countless words
count less
than the silent balance
between yin and yang — Lao-Tzu

Oh, when I was a kid, I was raised up with all the Disney classics. — Pierre Coffin

It was past midnight. From the carpark of the apartment blocks, a human figure with an unsteady gait emerged. — Lim Thean Soo

Tell me, O Muse, of the man of many devices — Homer

... but there they lay, sprawled across the field, craved far more by the vultures than by wives. — Homer

This is fan fiction, but it's the fan fiction of a classical scholar who knows his stuff, even if he is a touch irreverent and unorthodox. — Sarah Warning Potentially Off-Topic

Ranking among the greatest Christmas movie classics, 'It's a Wonderful Life' tells a beautiful story about the priceless value of relationships. — John C. Maxwell