418 Quotes About Classics

But she forgot nothing, and he sometimes forgot much too quickly, and, often that same day, encouraged by her composure, would laugh and frolic over the champagne, if friends stopped by. What venom must have been in her eyes at those moments yet he noticed nothing!

There are strange friendships: two friends are almost ready to eat each other, they live like that all their lives, and yet they cannot part.

Trouble me no more about her. Hereafter she is only my sister in name: not because I disown her, but because she has disowned me.

But we must stem the tide of malice, and pour into the wounded bosoms of each other the balm of sisterly consolation.

Истината е, че Джей Гетсби от Уест Ег, Лонг Айлънд, се е родил от платоничното си схващане за самия себе си. Той бе син на бога - израз, който, ако означава нещо, означава именно това - и трябваше да върши същата работа, която върши небесният му баща, да служи на една широко разпространена вулгарна и евтина красота.

We get bored with everything, my angel, it's a law of nature: it's not my fault.

He granted its due share to everything equally, drawing from everything only what was beautiful in it, and in the end left himself only the divine Raphael as a teacher. So a great poetic artist, having read many different writings filled with much delight and majestic beauty, in the end might leave himself, as his daily reading, only Homer's Iliad, having discovered that there is nothing that has not already been reflected in its profound and great perfection.

Vero o falso che sia, quel che si dice degli uomini occupa spesso altrettanto posto nella loro vita, e soprattutto nel loro destino, quanto quello che fanno.

Esser santo è un'eccezione; esser giusto è la regola. Sbagliate, mancate, peccate, ma siate giusti.