Top 39 Classic Fiction Quotes
#1. I never really had any intention of getting involved in documentaries until the opportunity came around. I always thought much more in classic fiction cinema terms and I think I tried to apply those ideas to documentaries and not vice versa.
John Hyams
#2. It is humiliating to have to confess that this conceit of Peter was one of his most fascinating qualities. To put it with brutal frankness, there never was a cockier boy.
J.M. Barrie
#3. What an interesting contrast between us, even just in the consideration of one woman. Your complete disregard for her will ironically be your destruction, while my regard for her will be my triumph over you.
T.K. Naliaka
#4. If it ran, a Bean would eat it. If it fell, a Bean would eat it.
Carolyn Chute
#5. The distinction between nerves and vessels was not demonstrated until the Third Century B.C., when it was made clear by Erasistratos.
James Henry Breasted
#6. Classics aren't books that are read for pleasure. Classics are books that are imposed on unwilling students, books that are subjected to analyses of "levels of significance" and other blatt, books that are dead.
Alexei Panshin
#8. I swear to the Lord,I still can't see,Why Democracy means,Everybody but me.
Langston Hughes
#9. Mayor Walmsley is using the typical Jim Crow manipulation tactics to deflect the blame and guilt. He's a classic racist politician with an ulterior motive," says Ora.
Shaune Bordere
#10. Dogwood Blues by Brenda Sutton Rose is a masterful work of classic small-town fiction.
Janice Daugharty
#11. A statement that is repugnant to one's beliefs can be as true as one that is pleasurable.
Taylor Caldwell
#12. Please don't complicate the investigation by offering an explanation that might actually be true.
--Marjorie Branell-Markson
Jennifer A. Girardin
#13. I'm not much of a plotter. I start off with an inciting incident, and in classic crime fiction what happens is that all the action flows from that incident. It's very comfy when it all ties up and feels like a complete universe, but my stuff doesn't always work that way.
Denise Mina
#14. In the face of all his handicaps, Jurgis was obliged to make the price of a lodging, and of a drink every hour or two, under penalty of freezing to death.
Upton Sinclair
#16. As a mistress, death seemed lacking in many essentials. Therefore, I decided not to die.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
#17. Marriage is a civil contract; people marry to better their worldly condition and improve appearances; it is an affair of house and furniture, of liveries, servants, equipage, and so forth. The
Charles Dickens
#18. Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene is a classic example of science fiction.
Pope Benedict XVI
#19. There is one thing, Emma, which a man can always do if he chooses, and that is his duty; not by manoeuvring and finessing, but by vigour and resolution. - Mr. Knightley
Jane Austen
#20. It's part of a cycle of stories I'm writing where I deconstruct classic science fiction.
Cory Doctorow
#21. I've never met anyone as kind as you are, except me Mum, o' course." --Benjamin Trimmel to Lady Alexandra.
Lisa M. Prysock
#22. As you can see, I've got legs. I can also assure you that I know how to use them. Any questions?
Nadia Scrieva
#23. If it ran, a Bean would shoot it. If it fell, a Bean would eat it.
Carolyn Chute
#24. I grew up a really nerdy kid. I read science fiction and fantasy voraciously, for the first 16 years of my life. I read a lot of classic Cold War science fiction, which is much of the best science fiction, so I speak the language well, which is a commodity that's not easy to come by in Hollywood.
Jon Spaihts
#25. As they walked, it seemed almost every building had some similar contrivance as decoration, adorning the street in a cacophony of clangs, bangs and whirs. The street's surroundings danced with steam and smoke, the scent of oil and grease its perfume.
A.F. Stewart
#26. He had been held to her by a beautiful thread which it pained him to spoil by breaking, rather than by a chain he could not break.
Thomas Hardy
#27. There was a dull pang of regret because it was not the kiss of love which had inflamed her, because it was not love which had held this cup of life to her lips.
Kate Chopin
#28. Never forget the value of time. You can acquire much in life. By comparison, time is fixed. Use it wisely.
Tim Fargo
#29. I had not yet gotten into the world of light. But I felt as one who, standing outside, could knock against the wall and hear an answering knock from within.
Simon Newcomb
#30. In my opinion, Fiction is a figment of our imagination & it causes us to dream but Reality taints dreams, and the F.scott Fitzgerald has clearly depicted this in The Great Gatsby.
Parul Wadhwa
#31. Passion-means to live for life's sake but I am well aware you Germans live for the sake of experience. Passion means to forget ones self. But you do things in order to enrich yourselves.
Thomas Mann
#33. I thought you'd be interested in these things as a government man. Ain't you mixed up in the prices of things we eat or something? Ain't that it? Making them more costly or something. Making the grits cost more and the grunts less?
Ernest Hemingway,
#34. Poirot is a classic character from fiction, not a MacBook Air; he would not benefit from updates.
Sophie Hannah
#35. Love, it is said, is blind, but love is not blind. It is an extra eye, which shows us what is most worthy of regard. To see the best is to see most clearly, and it is the lover's privilege.
J.M. Barrie
#36. I'd always wanted the show to be more reality based science fiction, something along the lines of The Day the Earth Stood Still, which I consider to be the classic science fiction film.
Gil Gerard
#37. Little Jane's love would have been my best reward, without it, my heart is broken.
Charlotte Bronte
#38. I had a good loud voice and I wasn't afraid to be goofy or zany.
Carol Burnett
#39. There was a long-ago saying that was still heard from time to time in town: Waverleys know where to find the truth, they just can't stomach it. Bay
Sarah Addison Allen
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