Classics quotes

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◆ And so it goes...

- Kurt Vonnegut100

◆ I could read the great books but the great books don't interest me.

- Charles Bukowski99

◆ Alexander the Great slept with 'The Iliad' beneath his pillow. During the waning moon, I cradle Homer's 'Odyssey' as if it were the sweet body of a woman.

- Roman Payne99

◆ I saw the Cloud, though I did not foresee the Storm.

- Daniel Defoe99

◆ If there really is such a thing as turning in one's grave, Shakespeare must get a lot of exercise.

- George Orwell99

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

- Walter Scott99

◆ 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.

- Jane Austen99

◆ She had come to that state where the horror of the universe and its smallness are both visible at the same time—the twilight of the double vision in which so many elderly people are involved. If this world is not to our taste, well, at all events, there is Heaven, Hell, Annihilation—one or other of those large things, that huge scenic background of stars, fires, blue or black air. All heroic endeavour, and all that is known as art, assumes that there is such a background, just as all practical endeavour, when the world is to our taste, assumes that the world is all. But in the twilight of the double vision, a spiritual muddledom is set up for which no high-sounding words can be found; we can neither act nor refrain from action, we can neither ignore nor respect Infinity.

- E.M. Forster99

◆ Why so much grief for me? No man will hurl me down to Death, against my fate. And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward, I tell you - it's born with us the day that we are born.

- Homer99

◆ 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.

- Jane Austen99

◆ May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you - haunt me, then.

- Emily Bront?99

◆ I recognized it instantly. It was a made-up story, a fantasy, the tale of four kids who went through a magic wardrobe and found themselves in a strange new world. I'd read it more times than I could remember, and although I sneered at the thought of a magical land with friendly, talking animals, there were times when I wished, in my most secret moments, that I could find a hidden door that would take us allout of this place.

- Julie Kagawa99

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

- Homer99

◆ Life if curious when reduced to its essentials

- Jean Rhys99

◆ Nature pulls one way and human nature another.

- E.M. Forster99