#classics

Time, which sees all things, has found you out. ↗

— Sophocles

#greek-literature #mythology #classics

Yes, madam, I am drunk. But in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.
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— Winston Churchill

#drunkenness #retort #classics

I saw the Cloud, though I did not foresee the Storm. ↗

— Daniel Defoe

#daniel-defoe #moll-flanders #classics

Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there. ↗

— Bruce Lee

#lee #pattern #reaction #classics

As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again. ↗

— Margaret Mitchell

#literature #classics

Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics ↗

— Coco Chanel

#fashion #innovation #classics

But I hate to hear you talking so like a fine gentleman, and as if women were all fine ladies, instead of rational creatures. We none of us expect to be in smooth water all our days. ↗

— Jane Austen

#literature #romance #classics

Calvino was not a writer of hits; he was a writer of classics. ↗

— William Weaver

#hits #writer

I played Hamlet, I played Chekhov and Ibsen and all the classics. ↗

— Harvey Korman

#classics #hamlet #i #ibsen #played

I was really exposed to great old-time literature - the classics, the poetic realists like Strindberg and Ibsen and all those guys. I was really inspired by all those guys. That's when writing became a primary focus. ↗

— Kurt Sutter

#classics #exposed #focus #great #guys