Classic Quotes

It goes so fast, he thought, they don't tell you that, how fast it goes...

S.E. Hinton

I am very proud, revengeful,ambitious, with more offences at my beck than I havethoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape,or time to act them in.

William Shakespeare

Oh, I am fortune's fool!

William Shakespeare

Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio.

William Shakespeare

You can be good for the mere sake of goodness; you cannot be bad for the mere sake of badness. You can do a kind action when you are not feeling kind and when it gives you no pleasure, simply because kindness is right; but no one ever did a cruel action simply because cruelty is wrong - only because cruelty is pleasant or useful to him, In other words, badness cannot succeed even in being bad in the same way in which goodness is good. Goodness is, so to speak, itself: badness is only spoiled goodness. And there must be something good first before it can be spoiled.

C.S. Lewis

Classic' - a book which people praise and don't read.

Mark Twain

Classicism is health, romanticisim is sickness.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Styles may change, details may come and go, but the broad demands of aesthetic judgement are permanent.

Roger Scruton

We cannot speak a loyal word and be meanly silent, we cannot kill and not kill in the same moment; but a moment is room wide enough for the loyal and mean desire, for the outlash of a murderous thought and the sharp bakcward stroke of repetance.

George Eliot

Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.

Charles Dickens

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

Jane Austen

Trifles make the sum of life.

Charles Dickens

All the girls in the world were divided into two classes: one class included all the girls in the world except her, and they had all the usual human feelings and were very ordinary girls; while the other class -herself alone- had no weaknesses and was superior to all humanity.

Leo Tolstoy

The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.

William Shakespeare

He thought of the number of girls and women she had seen marry, how many homes with children in them she had seen grow up around her, how she had contentedly pursued her own lone quite path-for him.~ Stephen speaking of Rachael

Charles Dickens

As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods.They kill us for their sport.

William Shakespeare

He knew she was there by the rapture and the terror that seized on his heart. She was standing talking to a lady at the opposite end of the ground. There was apparently nothing striking either in her dress or her attitude. But for Levin she was as easy to find in that crowd as a rose among nettles. Everything was made bright by her. She was the smile that shed light all around her.

Leo Tolstoy