418 Quotes About Classics

Alexander the Great slept with 'The Iliad' beneath his pillow. During the waning moon, I cradle Homer’s 'Odyssey' as if it were the sweet body of a woman.

You may only call me "Mrs. Darcy"... when you are completely, and perfectly, and incandescently happy.

Ihr wißt nicht, schwache Seelen,Was ein beleidigt Mutterherz vermag.Ich liebe, wer mir gutes tut und hasseWer mich verletzt, und ist's der eigene Sohn,Den ich geboren, desto hassenswerter.

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

Betsy was so full of joy that she had to be alone. She went upstairs to her bedroom and sat down on Uncle Keith's trunk. Behind Tacy's house the sun had set. A wind had sprung up and the trees, their color dimmed, moved under a brooding sky. All the stories she had told Tacy and Tib seemed to be dancing in those trees, along with all the stories she planned to write some day and all the stories she would read at the library. Good stories. Great stories. The classics. Not Rena's novels.

I live not in myself, but I becomePortion of that around me: and to meHigh mountains are a feeling, but the humof human cities torture.

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.

Tutto questo” pensava “non dovrebbe poter durare; però durerà, sempre; il sempre umano, beninteso, un secolo, due secoli...; e dopo sarà diverso, ma peggiore. Noi fummo i Gattopardi, i Leoni; quelli che ci sostituiranno saranno gli sciacalletti, le iene; e tutti quanti Gattopardi, sciacalli e pecore, continueremo a crederci il sale della terra”.

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