They [Narnia] are, perhaps, the greatest classics of children’s literature of the twentieth century.
Douglas GreshamTags: classic narnia c-s-lewis
Nothing of importance happened today.
King George IIIThe world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.
Arthur Conan DoyleTags: classic mystery crime novel detective
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 GaskellTags: love deception classic shame falsehood dishonor
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
My dear fellow " Said Albert, turning to Franz " here is an admirable adventure; we will fill our carriage with pistols, blunderbusses, and double-barreled shotguns. Luigi Vampa comes to take us, and we take him - we bring him back to Rome , and present him to him holiness the Pope, who asks how he can repay so great a service; Then we merely ask for a cariage and a pair of horses, and we will see the Carnival in the carriage , and doubtless the Roman people will crown us at the capitol , and proclaim us, like Curtius and the veiled Horatius, the preservers of there country."
Whilst Albert proposed this scheme, signor Pastrini's face assumed an expression impossible to describe.
Tags: humor classic funny idea
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 Saavedrathe same question arose in every soul: "For what, for whom, must I kill and be killed?"... p982
Leo TolstoyAs flies to wanton boys are we to the gods.
They kill us for their sport.
Tags: classic insignificance
After all, tomorrow is another day!
Margaret MitchellTags: life classic literature
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