English Classics Quotes

#1. 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 horrors of sordid passion, and - if he is lucky enough - know the love of an honest woman.

Robert Graves

#2. The King's daughter, the Princess Gemdelovely must be given to the Stoorworm.

Walter Traill Dennison

#3. Nor shall this peace sleep with her; but as when
The bird of wonder dies, the maiden phoenix,
Her ashes new-create another heir
As great in admiration as herself.

William Shakespeare

#4. The title song of David Bowie's 'Young Americans' is one of his handful of classics, a bizarre mixture of social comment, run-on lyric style, English pop and American soul.

Jon Landau

#5. The rules of logic are to mathematics what those of structure are to architecture.

Bertrand Russell

#6. I call it an old-fashioned seafood house for the new millennium. We are trying to update what we know as old fish houses and places like that, which are great, but I want to give it a new, fresh look with updated versions of the classics we all love.

Todd English

#7. There was no cure for the human condition because every man read the present and plotted the future in the light of his own past.

Morris West

#8. I went to the Alabama public schools at a time when my English teachers, all but one of whom was a woman, taught nothing but the classics. They revered the great British and American writers.

Thomas H. Cook

#9. Matthais: *Sighs* England. I'd take my Valentine to England on a tour of all the places from Jane Austen's books. Derbyshire, Mr. Darcy's house. Places like that.
Ayden: You're really milking that whole dark, brooding thing.

A&E Kirk

#10. It's all like an ocean! cried Dostoevski. I say it's all like cellophane.

Kurt Vonnegut

#11. Two people who I think have the world's most perfect skin are Cate Blanchett and Kate Bosworth. Maybe there's something to being named Kate, I don't know, but those two just seem to be effortless, yet completely, ethereally gorgeous.

Sophia Bush

#12. We don't just get our choice; we get the consequence that choice creates.

Melody Beattie

#13. I want to release another CD this year, finish writing a screenplay, and make another short film.

Todd Barry

#14. Professors of classics - not even a professor of English - professors of classics, they're something sacred; it's almost like being a priest.

Erich Segal