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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 likeIf 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
In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern.
— Amy Lowell
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
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They [Narnia] are, perhaps, the greatest classics of children's literature of the twentieth century.
— Douglas Gresham
Look to the Classics, History, to the Arts, for there is truth. Look away from the systems, the processes, the techniques.
— Charles Guggenheim
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
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
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
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 eveningMaids 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
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
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
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
Some of my favorite songsand 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
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
Read everything. Read fiction and non-fiction, read hot best sellers and the classics you never got around to in college.
— Jennifer Weiner
Remember this: classics never make a comeback. They wait for that perfect moment to take the spotlight from overdone, tired trends.
— Tabatha Coffey
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
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
It was past midnight. From the carpark of the apartment blocks, a human figure with an unsteady gait emerged.
— Lim Thean Soo
... 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
