418 Quotes About Classics

Dismissing fantasy writing because some of it is bad is exactly like saying I'm not reading Jane Eyre because it is a romance and I know romance is crap.

Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.

Vera incessu patuit dea.(The goddess indubitable was revealed in her step.)

Nature pulls one way and human nature another.

I felt there was no one as kind as you; no one who gave me reasons that I understood for doing what at first seemed so hard and--unnecessary.

Classics are books everyone knows but no has read.

The thought of what America would be likeIf the Classics had a wide circulationTroubles my sleep (Cantico del Sole)

If the spark doesn't come, that's a pity; but we do not read the classics out of duty or respect, but only out of love.

There is nothing alive more agonized than man / of all that breathe and crawl across the earth.