Classic Quotes

Oh! that look of love! continued he, between his teeth, as he bolted himself into his own private room. And that cursed lie; which showed some terrible shame in the background, to be kept from the light in which I thought she lived perpetually! Oh, Margaret, Margaret! Mother, how you have tortured me! Oh! Margaret, could you not have loved me? I am but uncouth and hard, but I would never have led you into any falsehood for me.

~ Elizabeth Gaskell

Rationality is the way to lead life. So high time,let’s stop feeding our dreams and shake hands with the reality.

~ Parul Wadhwa

Surely, the gods' judgment is certain. But as for us, we must be satisfied to 'come close' to those things, for we are men, who speak according to what is likely, and whose lectures resemble fables.

~ Proclus

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

The collective sign of relief heaved on V-J Day ought to have inspired Hollywood to release a flood of happily ever after films. But some victors didn't feel too good about their spoils. They'd seen too much by then. Too much warfare, too much poverty, too much greed, all in the service of rapacious progress. A bundle of unfinished business lingered from the Depression — nagging questions about ingrained venality, mean human nature, and the way unchecked urban growth threw society dangerously out of whack. Writers and directors responded by delivering gritty, bitter dramas that slapped our romantic illusions in the face and put the boot to the throat of the smug bourgeoisie. Still, plenty of us took it — and liked it.

~ Eddie Muller

How may a mortal, face and defeat the Kraken

~ Beverley Cross

I don't lack for bed partners, so I don't need to scrounge for unwilling scraps.-Spade

~ Jeaniene Frost

Roz to Amelia (the house ghost): How considerate of you, after trying to kill me, to see that I don't catch a cold.

~ Nora Roberts

George Orwell's science-fiction classic 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' wasn't a failure because the future it predicted failed to come to pass. Rather, it was a resounding success because it helped us prevent that future.

~ Robert J. Sawyer

There's something cool about being a stealth classic.

~ John Cameron Mitchell

I'd love to have a Christmas classic under my belt. It's hard to write a Christmas song.

~ Patty Smyth

'The Admirable Crichton' is probably Barrie's most famous work after 'Peter Pan', nearly a pendant to that classic.

~ Michael Dirda

I absolutely adore classic crime and read a huge amount as a teen - Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Sherlock Holmes, Josephine Tey, and many more.

~ Ruth Ware

Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns.

~ Arne Jacobsen

Historically, I come from Jewish history. I had the classic upbringing in the Yeshiva, learning, learning, and more learning.

~ Elie Wiesel

The knish is a classic example of peasant food evolving into comfort food and even sophisticated fare.

~ Gil Marks

I like a lot of classic movies, like, for example, 'Citizen Kane', James Dean movies, etc, etc.

~ Tommy Wiseau

I never really had the classic struggle. I had faith.

~ Denzel Washington

I'm a classic example of all humorists - only funny when I'm working.

~ Peter Sellers

I have two bikes: a classic 1978 Yamaha SR500 and a more modern Suzuki SV650. I've been into cars and bikes since I was tiny.

~ Thomas Sangster

That's what I like about film-it can be bizarre, classic, normal, romantic. Cinema is to me the most versatile thing.

~ Catherine Deneuve