418 Quotes About Classics

By the Angel, it just crushed Sophocles," noted Will. "Has no one respect for the classics these days?

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

It is noteworthy, the researcher further argued, that the inscription on the sword was engraved in the Romanian language, and, consequently, we see that Latin was actually Romanian, and not the invented language that for many centuries has passed for ancient Latin.

They too, knew this beautiful and harrowing landscape; they'd had the same experience of looking up from their books with fifth-century eyes and finding the world disconcertingly sluggish and alien, as if it were not their home.

Age, Henry, may a little modify our emotions— it does not destroy them.

The whelp went home, and went to bed.  If he had had any sense of what he had done that night, and had been less of a whelp and more of a brother, he might have turned short on the road, might have gone down to the ill-smelling river that was dyed black, might have gone to bed in it for good and all, and have curtained his head for ever with its filthy waters.

Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?

and love is a word usedtoo much andmuchtoo soon.

Suspicious we are, we men who walk the earth.