418 Quotes About Classics

You spoke to the devil last night and discovered that his voice matched your echo perfectly.

If there really is such a thing as turning in one's grave, Shakespeare must get a lot of exercise.

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

It was the evening on which MM Debienne and Poligny, the managers of the Opera, were giving a farewell gala performance to make their retirement.

Das Geheimnis der Liebe ist größer als das Geheimnis des Todes.

He had but to call to mind what he had been three months before and what he was now. To call to mind with what regularity he had been going downhill for every possibility of hope to be shattered.

- Ay! Thornton o' Marlborough Mill, as we call him.- He is one of the masters you are striving with, is he not? what sort of master is he? - Did yo' ever see a bulldog? Set a bulldog on hindlegs, and dress him up in coat and breeches, and yo'n just getten John Thornton.

God isn't going to scribble across the sky. "The shark is gone.

I guess you can call me "old fashioned". I prefer the book with the pages that you can actually turn. Sure, I may have to lick the tip of my fingers so that the pages don't stick together when I'm enraptured in a story that I can't wait to get to the next page. But nothing beats the sound that an actual, physical book makes when you first crack it open or the smell of new, fresh printed words on the creamy white paper of a page turner.