Quotes about Classics

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If you ever looked at me once with what I know is in you, I would be your slave. — Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
…There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible—magic to make the sanest man — Homer, The Iliad
Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships. — Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
A great nose may be an indexOf a great soul — Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac
Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied? — William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair
A man leaves his great house because he's boredWith life at home, and suddenly returns,Finding himself no happier abroad — Titus Lucretius Carus
Jude leaped out of arm's reach, and walked along the trackway weeping--not from the pain, though that was keen enough; n — Thomas Hardy
Why so much grief for me? No man will hurl me down to Death, against my fate. And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it — Homer, The Iliad
A sense of the divine presence and indwelling bears the soul towards heaven as upon the wings of eagles. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon
They had no conversation together, no intercourse but what the commonest civility required. Once so much to each other! — Jane Austen, Persuasion
But I hate to hear you talking so like a fine gentleman, and as if women were all fine ladies, instead of rational creat — Jane Austen, Persuasion
You are going, Jane?""I am going, sir.""You are leaving me?""Yes.""You will not come? You will not be my comforter, my r — Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
Betsy was so full of joy that she had to be alone. She went upstairs to her bedroom and sat down on Uncle Keith's trunk. — Maud Hart Lovelace, Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown
What are the dead, anyway, but waves and energy? Light shining from a dead star?That, by the way, is a phrase of Julian' — Donna Tartt, The Secret History
…but there they lay, sprawled across the field, craved far more by the vultures than by wives. — Homer, The Iliad
You, why are you so afraid of war and slaughter? Even if all the rest of us drop and die around you, grappling for the s — Homer, The Iliad
Let him submit to me! Only the god of death is so relentless, Death submits to no one—so mortals hate him most of all th — Homer, The Iliad
But now, as it is, sorrows, unending sorrows must surge within your heart as well—for your own son’s death. Never again — Homer, The Iliad
The gods do not visit you to remind you what you know already. — Mary Stewart
I live not in myself, but I becomePortion of that around me: and to meHigh mountains are a feeling, but the humof human — George Gordon Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage