Classics sayings

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◆ If you ever looked at me once with what I know is in you, I would be your slave.

- Emily Bront?99

◆ A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.

- Italo Calvino99

◆ …There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover's whisper, irresistible—magic to make the sanest man go mad.

- Homer99

◆ O teach me how I should forget to think (1.1.224)

- William Shakespeare99

◆ The last thing he ever said to me was, 'Just always be waiting for me, and then some night you will hear me crowing.

- J.M. Barrie99

◆ Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.

- Zora Neale Hurston99

◆ When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.

- E.M. Forster99

◆ Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?

- William Makepeace Thackeray99

◆ ...nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose...

- Mary Shelley99

◆ The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it.

- Benjamin Disraeli99

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

- John Ruskin99

◆ No mockery in this world ever sounds to me so hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. What does such advice mean? Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with manure. Happiness is a glory shining far down upon us out of Heaven. She is a divine dew which the soul, on certain of its summer mornings, feels dropping upon it from the amaranth bloom and golden fruitage of Paradise.

- Charlotte Bront?99

◆ They had no conversation together, no intercourse but what the commonest civility required. Once so much to each other! Now nothing! There had been a time, when of all the large party now filling the drawing-room at Uppercross, they would have found it most difficult to cease to speak to one another. With the exception, perhaps, of Admiral and Mrs. Croft, who seemed particularly attached and happy, (Anne could allow no other exception even among the married couples) there could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so simliar, no feelings so in unison, no countenances so beloved. Now they were as strangers; nay, worse than strangers, for they could never become aquainted. It was a perpetual estrangement.

- Jane Austen99

◆ Time, which sees all things, has found you out.

- Sophocles99

◆ Dismissing fantasy writing because some of it is bad is exactly like saying I'm not reading Jane Eyre because it is a romance and I know romance is crap.

- China Miéville99