Quotes About Classical Literature

#1. The policemen agreed they were living with a most peculiar fellow. One moment he was reading classical literature in the original French and quoting Tennyson, and the next he would be discussing the best way to blow up a train.

Ben Macintyre

#2. I love the Russian classics very much, the Russian classical literature. But I also read modern literature. As far as Russian literature is concerned, I am very fond of Tolstoy and Chekhov, and I also enjoy reading Gogol very much.

Vladimir Putin

#3. Writing detective stories is about writing light literature, for entertainment. It isn't primarily a question of writing propaganda or classical literature.

Stieg Larsson

#4. Some of what we read in classical literature is not relative to our condition, but then many women novelists and poets have turned it upside down and told the stories from the other point of view.

Margaret Drabble

#5. The road has been viewed as a male turf. If you think of the classic "Odyssey," of, you know, classical literature or Jack Kerouac or almost any road story, it's really about a man on the road. There's an assumption that the road is too dangerous for women.

Gloria Steinem

#6. The day is past when schools could afford to give sufficient time and attention to the teaching of the ancient languages to enable the student to get that enjoyment out of classical literature that made the lives of our grandfathers so rich.

James Loeb

#7. It's not easy remembering the good times.

Cecelia Ahern

#8. I have no anonymity.I've not had a drink in nine and a half years. That's my whole story right there.

Ringo Starr

#9. A classical work of literature can never be completely understood. But those who are educated and educating themselves must always desire to learn more from it.

Friedrich Von Schlegel

#10. Chess is my profession. I am my own boss; I am free. I like literature and music, classical especially. I am in fact quite normal; I have a Bohemian profession without being myself a Bohemian. I am neither a conformist nor a great revolutionary.

Bent Larsen

#11. In literature, you either create a classical or create a foam! There is no in between!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#12. Their suffering essentially relates to a terrifying and painful past that haunts them.

Onno Van Der Hart

#13. One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature at any rate, of prose fiction, and the comparative absence, in the two great classical languages, of what we call by that name.

George Saintsbury

#14. If I don't have a script I adore, I do one I like. If I don't have one I like, I do one that has an actor I like or that presents some technical challenge.

Sidney Lumet

#15. I want to tell you something but good taste
Restrains me

Sappho Van Lesbos

#16. As for the author, he is profoundly unaware of what the classical or romantic genre might consist of ... In literature, as in allthings, there is only the good and the bad, the beautiful and the ugly, the true and the false.

Victor Hugo

#17. Technology breeds crime and we are constantly trying to develop technology to stay one step ahead of the person trying to use it negatively.

Frank Abagnale

#18. Tax expenditures for middle- and working-class Americans - like the earned income tax credit - aren't thought of as loopholes; they're just thought of as benefits.

Alex Pareene

#19. One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.

Evelyn Waugh

#20. Prayer does not demand that we interrupt our work, but that we continue working as if it were a prayer.

Mother Teresa

#21. You know, you say 'not exactly' a lot. You're not exactly a vampire. You're not exactly from Scotland, and you're allergic to daylight. What else? (Sunshine)
I hate bran muffins and grass. (Talon)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#22. Schoolchildren and older people like the idea of planting trees. For children, it's interesting that an acorn will grow into an oak, and for older people it's a legacy. And the act of planting a tree is not that difficult.

Clive Anderson