Classics Quotes

Unasked, Unsought, Love gives itself but is not bought

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

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

When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.

Every new book we read in our brief and busy lives means that a classic is left unread.

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.

If you want to find out if someone is a true bookworm or not, give them a thousand page novel and see what happens.

Don't play with others, or at one day, you will be played by others.

Have you ever felt you were born in the wrong decade, or came just a bit too late and missed out on all the good stuff when it was in its heyday?

Morning and eveningMaids heard the goblins cry:'Come buy our orchard fruits, Come buy, come buy

God isn't going to scribble across the sky. "The shark is gone.

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

It was past midnight. From the carpark of the apartment blocks, a human figure with an unsteady gait emerged.

Move thy tongue, For silence is a sign of discontent.

I have seen or heard of no other man whom destiny treated with such enmity as it did Philoktetes

And what does a person with such romantic temperament seek in the study of the classics?"If by romantic you mean solitary and introspective, I think romantics are frequently the best classicists.

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

Read the great books, gentlemen, ” Mr. Monte said one day. “Just the great ones. Ignore the others. There’s not enough time.

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!