Quotes on Classic

When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before.

There is but one way left to save a classic; to give up revering him and use him for our own salvation.

To understand oneself is the classic form of consolation; to elude oneself is the romantic.

There are places in the heart that do not yet exist; suffering has to enter in for them to come to be.

Limiting the freedom of news 'just a little bit' is in the same category with the classic example 'a little bit pregnant.

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

Classic literature is still something that hangs in the air like a song.

I love classic beauty. It’s an idea of beauty with no standard.

Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.

People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world.

He became fubar in the classic way, which is to say that he was the victim of a temporary arrangement that became permanent.

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.

No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.

Everybody is, I suppose, either Classic or Gothic by nature. Either you feel in your bones that buildings should be rectangular boxes with lids to them, or you are moved to the marrow by walls that climb and branch, and break into a inflorescence of pinnacles.

Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?

Can you understand? Someone, somewhere, can you understand me a little, love me a little? For all my despair, for all my ideals, for all that - I love life. But it is hard, and I have so much - so very much to learn.

I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life. And I am horribly limited.

If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.

This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.