Famous Quotes - Tags - Books: Classics

  • A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man. More
  • A classic is a book that doesn’t have to be written again. More
  • A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say. More
  • A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain... More
  • A classic—something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. More
  • A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine... More
  • Books that have become classics—books that have had their day and now get more praise than... More
  • Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have. More
  • Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race. More
  • For what are the classics but the noblest thoughts of man? They are the only oracles which are... More
  • The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress... More
  • The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is... More
  • The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the... More
  • There are books ... which take rank in your life with parents and lovers and passionate... More
  • There are certain books in the world which every searcher for truth must know: the Bible, the... More
  • There is but one way left to save a classic: to give up revering him and use him for our own... More
  • What a sense of security in an old book which Time has criticized for us! More

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