Quotes about Classic lit

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You are a wonderful creation. You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know. — Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
There is one thing, Emma, which a man can always do if he chooses, and that is his duty; not by manoeuvring and finessin — Jane Austen, Emma
To HelenI saw thee once-once only-years ago;I must not say how many-but not many.It was a july midnight; and from outA f — Edgar Allan Poe
Dite all’Angelo che veglierà sulla vostra vita, Morrel, di pregare qualche volta per un uomo che, simile a Satana, per u — Alexandre Dumas
On the Day of Judgment , life and death are not determined by the world but by God's wisdom and law — John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress
Realize your youth while you have it. Don’t squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve — Oscar Wilde
In my opinion, Fiction is a figment of our imagination & it causes us to dream but Reality taints dreams, and the F.scot — Parul Wadhwa, The Masquerade
I have not yet tranquillised myself enough to see Frederica. — Jane Austen, Lady Susan
Do you remember what we were speaking of earlier, of how bloody, terrible things are sometimes the most beautiful?” he s — Donna Tartt, The Secret History
I do not know where the error lies. I do not pretend to set people right, but I do see they are often wrong. — Jane Austen, MANSFIELD PARK By Jane Austen (illustrated) Original Version: 1814 (illustrated) Original Version By Jane Austen
This compulsion to an activity without respite, without variety, without result was so cruel that one day, noticing a sw — Marcel Proust, Swann's Way
Many of the greatest books are like a forest. “The best way to get to know them is to wander right into the middle and g — Anthony M. Esolen
It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own. You may not apprecia — Arthur Conan Doyle, Through The Magic Door
...because there's a secret order. The books, you can't place them random. The other day I put Cervantes next to Tolstoj — Ettore Scola
It was William who would climb out of his carriage unafraid and help a farmer drive a herd of cattle or sheep across a r — Lisa M. Prysock, To Find a Duchess
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 befor — Cliff Fadiman
It is humiliating to have to confess that this conceit of Peter was one of his most fascinating qualities. To put it wit — J.M. Barrie
I believe books should be like a prime rib steak ~ good and thick. — E.A. Bucchianeri
Seaward ho! Hang the treasure! It's the glory of the sea that has turned my head. — Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
The sun will always rise, but we may never know — Aprl Ray