102 Quotes About Classic-literature

Classics aren't books that are read for pleasure. Classics are books that are imposed on unwilling students, books that are subjected to analyses of "levels of significance" and other blatt, books that are dead.

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

Trouble me no more about her. Hereafter she is only my sister in name: not because I disown her, but because she has disowned me.

A way a lone a last a loved a long the—

One girl is worth more than twenty boys.

Young people get the foolish idea that what is new for them must be new for everybody else too. No matter how unconventional they get, they're just repeating what others before them have done.

At the moment when her eyes closed, when all feeling vanished in her, she thought that she felt a touch of fire imprinted on her lips, a kiss more burning than the red-hot iron of the executioner.

So ran the speech. Burdened and sick at heart,He feigned hope in his look, and inwardlyContained his anguish. […]Aeneas, more than any, secretlyMourned for them all

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