418 Quotes About Classics

There is remedy for all things except death - Don Quixote De La Mancha

Move thy tongue,For silence is a sign of discontent.

On the first Monday of the month of April, 1625, the market town of Meung, in which the author of Romance of the Rose was born, appeared to be in as perfect a state of revolution as if the Huguenots had just made a second La Rochelle of it.

About this time he had the sarcophagus and body of Alexander the Great brought forth from its shrine, and after gazing on it, showed his respect by placing upon it a golden crown and strewing it with flowers; and being then asked whether he wished to see the tomb of the Ptolemies as well, he replied, "My wish was to see a king, not corpses.

But I hate to hear you talking so like a fine gentleman, and as if women were all fine ladies, instead of rational creatures. We none of us expect to be in smooth water all our days.

If heaven will not bow to me, then Hell shall stand by my side and help me burn it down.

All books are divisible into two classes: the books of the hours, and the books of all Time.

When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.

It often gives a lady a pleasure to giver her lover a pang