418 Quotes About Classics

Between the houses was a common wall,Flawed with a narrow chink long years ago,When it was built. This chink, so long unnoticed-But what does it not see? - those lovers foundAnd made of it their voices' passageway,And safely flowed the whispered words of love

Canterò la bella, veneranda Afrodite dall’aurea corona,protettrice delle mura dell’intera Cipro circondata dal mare

I said his heaven would be only half alive; and he said mine would be drunk: I said I should fall asleep in his; and he said he could not breathe in mine.

I've illuminated the blackness of my invisibility—and vice versa.

Ainda têm um pedaço de pão e manteiga para lhe barrar por cima

My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods: time will change it, I’m well aware, as winter changes the trees. My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary.

I have not broken your heart-you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine.

I love him better than myself, Ellen; and I know it by this: I pray every night that I may live after him; because I would rather be miserable than that he should be: that proves I love him better than myself.

She longed to know what at that moment was passing in his mind; in what manner he thought of her, and whether, in defiance of everything, she was still dear to him.