Classic Quotes - Page 21

• I've always been fascinated by books. When I was young, my grandfather used to hand out a book - which would be anything from a biography to a classic - to me every week and ask me to write a piece on what I thought about it. On the other hand, my mother used to love reading thrillers and bestsellers.

  Ashwin Sanghi

  Mother, Book, Reading

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• The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence.

  Sylvia Plath

  Depression, Silence, Feminism

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.12, Hamilton Books

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• Right now I’m having amnesia and déjà vu at the same time. I think I’ve forgotten this before.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Time, Humor

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• The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.

  William Shakespeare

  Funny, Inspiration, Law

  'Henry VI, Part 2' (1592) act 4, sc. 2, l. [73]

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• Oh, I am fortune's fool!

  William Shakespeare

  Good Luck, Fool, Fortune

  William Shakespeare (1843). “Romeo et Juliette: tragédie”, p.54

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• Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.

  Charles Dickens

  Procrastination, Thieves, Collars

  Charles Dickens (2016). “David Copperfield (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.131, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• Trifles make the sum of life.

  Charles Dickens

  Words Of Wisdom, Trifles

  David Copperfield ch. 53 (1850)

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• The past is always tense, the future perfect.

  Zadie Smith

  Future, Past, Perfect

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• Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences.

  Sylvia Plath

  Writing, Feminism, Being A Woman

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.184, Anchor

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• The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Life, Obvious Things, World

  Sherlock Holmes in The Hound of the Baskervilles (1901).

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• I like my first lines short and declarative. No complicated sentences. Of course, that's not really a Scott thing. It's pretty classic grab-the-reader technique.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Technique, Lines, Firsts

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• There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.

  Sylvia Plath

  Friendship, Inspiring, Funny Best Friend

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.24, Hamilton Books

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• Oh! that look of love!" continued he, between his teeth, as he bolted himself into his own private room. "And that cursed lie; which showed some terrible shame in the background, to be kept from the light in which I thought she lived perpetually! Oh, Margaret, Margaret! Mother, how you have tortured me! Oh! Margaret, could you not have loved me? I am but uncouth and hard, but I would never have led you into any falsehood for me.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Mother, Lying, Light

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2010). “The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)”, p.1611, BookCaps Study Guides

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• He thought of the number of girls and women she had seen marry, how many homes with children in them she had seen grow up around her, how she had contentedly pursued her own lone quite path-for him. ~ Stephen speaking of Rachael

  Charles Dickens

  Girl, Children, Growing Up

  Charles Dickens (2001). “Hard Times”, p.61, Courier Corporation

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• Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I’ve taken for granted.

  Sylvia Plath

  Life, Memories, Taken

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.14, Anchor

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• The reason for the unreason with which you treat my reason , so weakens my reason that with reason I complain of your beauty.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Hilarious, Complaining, Reason

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (2006). “Don Quixote”, p.20, Collector's Library

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• Reader, I married him.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Married, Reader

  Jane Eyre ch. 38 (1847)

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• Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Sarcastic, Money, Sarcasm

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• the same question arose in every soul: "For what, for whom, must I kill and be killed?"... p982

  Leo Tolstoy

  Soul

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• Wait a minute! Wait a minute! I figured this out. I know what's wrong with what we've done in Iraq. We've been following time as it goes forward. What a classic mistake. Linear time is so pre-9-11.

  Jon Stewart

  Mistake, Iraq, Waiting

  "The Bill Moyers Journal", www.pbs.org. April 27, 2007.

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• I never asked my mother where babies came from but I remember clearly the day she volunteered the information....my mother called me to set the table for dinner. She sat me down in the kitchen, and under the classic caveat of 'loving each other very, very much,' explained that when a man and a woman hug tightly, the man plants a seed in the woman. The seed grows into a baby. Then she sent me to the pantry to get placemats. As a direct result of this conversation, I wouldn't hug my father for two months.

  Sloane Crosley

  Mother, Baby, Sex

  "I Was Told There'd Be Cake". Book by Sloane Crosley, books.google.ru. 2008.

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• Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.

  Mark Twain

  Music, Witty, Humorous

  Autobiography (published in 1924).

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• But our trip was different. It was a classic affirmation of everything right and true and decent in the national character. It was a gross, physical salute to the fantastic possibilities of life in this country-but only for those with true grit. And we were chock full of that.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Country, Character, Fear And Loathing

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.535, Simon and Schuster

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• I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.

  Sylvia Plath

  Soul, Feminism, Flesh

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• Can you understand? Someone, somewhere, can you understand me a little, love me a little? For all my despair, for all my ideals, for all that - I love life. But it is hard, and I have so much - so very much to learn.

  Sylvia Plath

  Life, Despair, Feminism

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.25, Anchor

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