418 Quotes About Classics

Nothing is Lie until you get to know the truth, as nothing is false in Dream until you get to know that i'm Dreamer.

The Biblical language was so deeply embedded in the great man's mind that it became his normal way of speaking.

We have no use for ablative absolutes in the Navy.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of someone or other of their daughters.

You, you insolent brazen bitch—you really dare to shake that monstrous spear in Father’s face?

If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don’t feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.

So Man, who here seems principal alone,Perhaps acts second to some sphere unknown.Touches some wheel, or verges to some goal,'This but a part we see, and not a whole.

Pray, my dear aunt, what is the difference in matrimonial affairs, between the mercenary and the prudent motive? Where does discretion end, and avarice begin?

I’ve done no injustice, and I repent of nothing. I’m too happy; and yet I’m not happy enough. My souls bliss kills my body, but does not satisfy itself.