#classics

Let him submit to me! Only the god of death is so relentless, Death submits to no one—so mortals hate him most of all the gods. Let him bow down to me! I am the greater king, I am the elder-born, I claim—the greater man. ↗

— Homer

#death #greece #pride #death

I don't read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics. ↗

— Richard Attenborough

#deal #fiction #great #great deal #i

Do you think that I am a machine? That I can bear it? Do you think because I'm poor, plain, obsure, and little that I have no heart? That I'm without soul? I have as much heart as you and as much soul. And if God had given me as much beauty and wealth, I would make it as hard for you to leave me as it is now for me to leave you. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#beauty

Songs like Reach and S Club Party are pop classics. I'm really proud that I had a part in them. ↗

— Rachel Stevens

#club #had #i #like #part

The fact that Stravinsky used the classics as a major influence is obvious. What is interesting is how he used them, how he turned Bach into Stravinsky. ↗

— Lukas Foss

#classics #fact #how #influence #interesting

I start each collection thinking how I can refresh my classics. ↗

— Jean Paul Gaultier

#collection #each #how #i #i can

I like all kinds of music, though I tend to prefer jazz and classics. ↗

— Erik Larson

#i #jazz #kinds #like #music

The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine. ↗

— Stephen Leacock

#class #classics #literature #machinery #medicine

In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern. ↗