Classics Quotes

The classics tell us that, in relationships, the one between teacher and student comes second only to the one between parent and child. (Lisa See)
Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race. View quote
Henry Miller
You can write a great book and be ignored. Literary history is full of classics that were under-appreciated in their own time. View quote
William Landay
Today it is not the classroom nor the classics which are the repositories of models of eloquence, but the ad agencies. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
I believe that every English poet should read the English classics, master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them, travel abroad, experience the horror of sordid passion and - if he is lucky enough - know the love of an honest woman. View quote
Robert Graves
For the classics philosophical insight was the product of a life of leisure; for me a life of leisure is the product of philosophical insight. View quote
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Classics which at home are drowsily read have a strange charm in a country inn, or in the transom of a merchant brig. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine. View quote
Stephen Leacock
Do not suppose, however, that I intend to urge a diet of classics on anybody. I have seen such diets at work. I have known people who have actually read all, or almost all, the guaranteed Hundred Best Books. God save us from reading nothing but the best. View quote
Robertson Davies
I have always admired the work of Phil Farmer and was glad for the chance to work with him. Readers today may be too young to remember his classics like The Lovers. View quote
Piers Anthony
The neo-conservative critics of leftist critics of mass culture ridicule the protest against Bach as background music in the kitchen, against Plato and Hegel, Shelley and Baudelaire, Marx and Freud in the drugstore. Instead, they insist on recognition of the fact that the classics have left the mausoleum and come to life again, that people are just so much more educated. True, but coming to life as classics, they come to life as other than themselves; they are deprived of their antagonistic force, of the estrangement which was the very dimension of their truth. (Herbert Marcuse)
I was...attacked for being a pasticheur, chided for composing "simple” music, blamed for deserting "modernism,” accused of renouncing my "true Russian heritage.” People who had never heard of, or cared about, the originals cried "sacrilege”: "The classics are ours. Leave the classics alone.” To them all my answer was and is the same: You "respect,” but I love. View quote
Igor Stravinsky
The classics of the ancient world are everywhere in the literature of the Revolution, but they are everywhere illustrative, not determinative, of thought. View quote
Bernard Bailyn
When I was your age - about, ooh, a thousand years ago - I loved a good bedtime story. The Three Little Sontarans. The Emperor Dalek's New Clothes. Snow White and the Seven Keys to Doomsday, eh? All the classics. View quote
Mark Gatiss
Classics isn't about the ancient world. It's partly about the ancient world, but it's about our conversation. It's how we try to talk to antiquity. View quote
Mary Beard
Read everything. Read fiction and non-fiction, read hot best sellers and the classics you never got around to in college. View quote
Jennifer Weiner
I grew up with the classics. My mom and I would sit and watch 'Singin' in the Rain' and 'White Christmas' - those kind of movies. View quote
Lucas Grabeel
When I wrote 'Barefoot in Paris,' I wanted to make simple recipes that you could make at home that tasted like French classics. View quote
Ina Garten
There's no question that Whale's movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful. View quote
Bill Condon
Stick to the classics, and you can't ever go wrong. I see old ladies on the street who have fabulous style and realize it's because they are probably wearing really classic items that they've had for years and years. I think if you find something that suits you, you should just stick to it. View quote
Alexa Chung
I like songs that sound like classics. There are songs that might be cooler or have better production, but I like songs that sound like they're timeless. (Alexa Ray Joel)
I chose Sony Classics, not just because of their practical experience, not just because of their wisdom in marketing, but mainly because of their integrity. View quote
Arthur Cohn
With the Stray Cats at least, we really took the music somewhere else. First, we wrote our own songs. That's a real weak point in modern classics if you do rockabilly or blues. View quote
Brian Setzer
I will never forget the pleasure and instruction I derived from working with a true master of his art, such as Edward G. Robinson was - and is. Surely his record for versatility, studied characterization - ranging from modern colloquial to the classics - and artistic integrity is unsurpassed. View quote
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
Now that I'm taking some time off from school, I've been reading a lot to make sure I don't forget everything. It's mostly classics and nonfiction accounts from actors, directors and writers from the '40s and '50s. View quote
Fred Savage