Classics Quotes | Quotes about Classics

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  • Classics Quote #1

    - Julga, por acaso, que o homem seja capaz de fazer alguma coisa a não ser por propósitos egoístas?
    - Julgo.
    - É impossível que assim seja. Quando ficar velho, compreenderá que a coisa mais necessária para tornar este mundo um lugar tolerável é reconhecer o inevitável egoísmo da humanidade.

    W. Somerset Maugham

  • Classics Quote #2

    Hippocrates can be justifiably regarded as the father of Western medicine, and he stands in relation to this science as Aristotle does to physics. Which is to say, he was almost entirely wrong, but he was at least systematic.

    Philip Ball

  • Classics Quote #3

    …and they limp and halt, they’re all wrinkled, drawn, they squint to the side, can’t look you in the eyes, and always bent on duty, trudging after Ruin, maddening, blinding Ruin. But Ruin is strong and swift—She outstrips them all by far, stealing a march, leaping over the whole wide earth to bring mankind to grief.

    Homer

  • Classics Quote #4

    …but there they lay, sprawled across the field, craved far more by the vultures than by wives.

    Homer

  • Classics Quote #5

    Što ona to govori? Njezin je govor nestvaran, samotan. On ga osjeca. Osjeca kako ga boli... A njezin je govor milovanje, spokojno prolaženje kroz tminu vecernjih soba. Kad boje u depresijama gasnu i umiru. Ona je tu. U jednom atomu zraka. On je cuti kako mu šapce. Ona se smije. Tako ona prolazi. Prolazi kao ovaj dan iznad dvorca. Cas pun sunca, cas opet sjena i tišine. U svim nijansama boli i radosti. Tako prolazi sjena njezina, dah njezin. A on je tu sam i ne može da dokuci, da joj išta rekne, da joj bude bliz.

    Ðuro Sudeta

  • Classics Quote #6

    «C'ero, prima di nascere? No. Ci sarò dopo la morte? No. Che sono? Un po' di polvere tenuta insieme da un organismo. Che cosa debbo fare su questa terra? Ho la scelta: o soffrire, o godere. Dove mi condurrà la sofferenza? Al nulla; ma avrò sofferto. Dove mi condurrà il godimento? Al nulla; ma avrò goduto. La mia scelta è fatta; poiché bisogna essere mangiatore o mangiato, io mangio; meglio essere il dente che l'erba.»
    [...]
    «Coloro che son riusciti a procurarsi questo mirabile materialismo hanno la gioia di sentirsi irresponsabili e di pensare che posson tutto divorare senza inquietudine, cariche, sinecure, dignità, potere bene o mal acquisito, palinodie lucrose, utili tradimenti e saporite capitolazioni della coscienza perché, a digestione finita, entreranno nella tomba.»

    Victor Hugo

  • Classics Quote #7

    «Fernand! – gridò Montecristo, – dei miei cento nomi non avrei bisogno di dirtene che uno solo per fulminarti; ma questo nome tu lo indovini, non è vero? o piuttosto te lo ricordi? perché malgrado tutte le mie sofferenze, tutte le mie torture, oggi ti mostro un viso ringiovanito dalla felicità della vendetta, un viso che devi aver visto molto spesso in sogno dopo il tuo matrimonio…. con Mercedes, la mia fidanzata!» Il generale, con la testa rovesciata all’indietro, le mani tese, lo sguardo fisso, divorò in silenzio quella terribile visione; poi, trovato un punto d’appoggio sulla parete, scivolò lentamente fino alla porta, dalla quale uscì all’indietro lasciandosi sfuggire questo solo grido lugubre, lamentoso, straziante: «Edmond Dantès!».

    Alexandre Dumas

  • Classics Quote #8

    ¿Os dais cuenta cabal de la cadena de crímenes tramados por la nena? Crimen número uno: la acusada comete allanamiento de morada. Crimen número dos: el personaje se queda con tres platos de potaje. Crimen número tres: la muy cochina destroza una sillita isabelina. Crimen número cuatro: va la dama y se limpia los zapatos en la cama... Un juez no dudaría ni un instante: «¡Diez años de presidio a esa tunante!». Pero en la historia, tal como se cuenta, la miserable escapa tan contenta mientras los niños gritan, encantados: «¡Qué bien; Ricitos de oro se ha salvado!».

    Roald Dahl

  • Classics Quote #9

    1 )Classics are books which, the more we think we know them through hearsay, the more original, unexpected, and innovative we find them when we actually read them.
    2)A classic is a work which constantly generates a pulviscular cloud of critical discourse around it, but which always shakes the particles off.

    Italo Calvino

  • Classics Quote #10

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

    Italo Calvino

  • Classics Quote #11

    A classic is read not to enjoy but only to be boast about it.

    Aman Jassal

  • Classics Quote #12

    A classic is the term given to any book which comes to represent the whole universe, a book on a par with ancient talismans.

    Italo Calvino

  • Classics Quote #13

    A fine single malt whisky, of course, is purely medicinal - it cures all manner of ailments one may care to imagine.

    Alex Morritt

  • Classics Quote #14

    A man, any man, will go considerably out of his way to pick up a silver dollar; but here are golden words, which the wisest men of antiquity have uttered, and whose worth the wise of every succeeding age have assured us of; — and yet we learn to read only as far as Easy Reading, the primers and class-books, and when we leave school, the Little Reading, and story-books, which are for boys and beginners; and our reading, our conversation and thinking, are all on a very low level, worthy only of pygmies and manikins.

    Henry David Thoreau

  • Classics Quote #15

    A notícia que acabara de receber causara-lhe um choque peculiar. Lembrava-lhe a sua própria condição mortal, pois embora, como toda a gente, Philip soubesse perfeitamente que os homens sem exceção devem morrer, não tinha nenhum sentimento íntimo de que isso se aplicasse à sua pessoa.

    W. Somerset Maugham

  • Classics Quote #16

    A sua conduta sempre fora influenciada pelo que ele julgava dever fazer e não pelo que desejava de toda a alma.

    W. Somerset Maugham

  • Classics Quote #17

    Alguém certamente havia caluniado Josef K, pois uma manhã ele foi detido sem ter feito mal algum

    Franz Kafka

  • Classics Quote #18

    All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one, you need not covet it) is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone.

    Jane Austen

  • Classics Quote #19

    Analiza la cuestión, ¿cómo pretendes que sea un ser agradable si soy un monstruo, o que sea generoso con los demás, si se muestran implacables conmigo? Si tú me arrojases a uno de esos barrancos helados, o me destrozaras con tus manos, ¿verdad que no lo considerarías un crimen? Y yo me pregunto, ¿por qué debo de respectar al que me desprecia? Haz que el hombre, en vez de odiarme, me acepte y me enseñe sus bondades, y serás testigo de todas las cosas buenas que soy capaz de hacer por vosotros.

    Mary Shelley

  • Classics Quote #20

    And here, I believe, the wit is generally misunderstood. In reality, it lies in desiring another to kiss your a-- for having just before threatened to kick his; for I have observed very accurately, that no one ever desires you to kick that which belongs to himself, nor offers to kiss this part in another.

    Henry Fielding

  • Classics Quote #21

    And his good wife will tear her cheeks in grief, his sons are orphans and he, soaking the soil red with his own blood, he rots away himself—more birds than women flocking round his body!

    Homer

  • Classics Quote #22

    And is not all of life material- based on the material- permeated by the material? Should not one learn, gladly, to utilize the beauty of the fine material? I do not speak of the gross crudities of soporific television, of loud brash convertibles and vulgar display- but rather of grace and line and refinement- and there are wonderful and exciting things that only money can buy, such as theater tickets, books, paintings, travel, lovely clothes- and why deny them when one can have them? The only problem is to work, to stay awake mentally and physically, and NEVER become mentally, physically, spiritually flabby or over complacent!

    Elizabeth Winder

  • Classics Quote #23

    and love is a word used
    too much and
    much
    too soon.

    Charles Bukowski

  • Classics Quote #24

    And when long years and seasons wheeling brought around that point of time ordained for him to make his passage homeward, trials and dangers, even so, attended him even in Ithaca, near those he loved.

    Homer

  • Classics Quote #25

    And with regard to the resentment of his family, or the indignation of the world, if the former were excited by his marrying me, it would not give me one moment's concern-- and the world in general would have too much sense to join in the scorn.

    Jane Austen

  • Classics Quote #26

    And yet he
    was in the right! They were wrong and he was right. The
    obvious, the silly, and the true had got to be defended. Truisms
    are true, hold on to that! The solid world exists, its laws
    do not change. Stones are hard, water is wet, objects unsupported
    fall towards the earth’s centre

    George Orwell

  • Classics Quote #27

    Anger was buried far too early in a young heart, which perhaps contained much good.

    Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  • Classics Quote #28

    Apakah setiap orang akan menjadi orang yang berbeda ketika mereka bersama orang lain?

    Louise Fitzhugh

  • Classics Quote #29

    As Tom Robinson gave his testimony, it came to me that Mayella Ewell must have
    been the loneliest person in the world. She was even lonelier than Boo Radley, who had not been out of the house in twenty-five years. When Atticus asked had she any friends, she seemed not to know what he meant, then she thought he was making fun of her. She was as sad, I thought, as what Jem called a mixed child: white people wouldn’t have anything to do with her because she lived among pigs; Negroes wouldn’t have
    anything to do with her because she was white. She couldn’t live like Mr. Dolphus Raymond, who preferred the company of Negroes, because she didn’t own a riverbank and she wasn’t from a fine old family. Nobody said, “That’s just their way,” about the Ewells. Maycomb gave them Christmas baskets, welfare money, and the back of its hand. Tom Robinson was probably the only person who was ever decent to her. But she said he took advantage of her, and when she stood up she looked at him as if he were dirt beneath her feet.

    Harper Lee

  • Classics Quote #30

    Ask not the elves for advice, because they will tell you both 'yes' and 'no'.

    J.R.R. Tolkien

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