418 Quotes About Classics

Surely I'd give it for a nipple a rubber Tacitus For a rattle bag of broken Bach records Tack Della Francesca all over its crib Sew the Greek alphabet on its bib And build for its playpen a roofless Parthenon

And with regard to the resentment of his family, or the indignation of the world, if the former were excited by his marrying me, it would not give me one moment's concern-- and the world in general would have too much sense to join in the scorn.

As colleges move to replace some of the dead white men of the literary canon with writers who are not dead, not white, and not men, the living white men of the Red Pill have appeared as the self-appointed guardians and defenders of the cultural legacy of Western civilization.

The men of the Red Pill who write about the ancient world would have their readers believe there is a straight line from antiquity to today, a continuity of male and female behavior...this illusion of continuity is actually an ideologically motivated strategy to resurrect ancient norms in the present day.

...μετὰ καὶ τόδε τοῖσι γενέσθω.

Learn whom God has ordered you to be, and in what part of human affairs you have been placed.

I shall never be converted, and I shall remain true to my old religion of the classics until my life's end.

To find a man agreeable whom one is determined to hate!—Do not wish me such an evil.

In my nervous frame of mind I expected to see the ghost of Hamlet wandering on the legendary castle terrace.