#classics

A sense of the divine presence and indwelling bears the soul towards heaven as upon the wings of eagles. ↗

— Charles Spurgeon

#devotional-classics #hard-times #inspirational-quotes #inspirational

Books that have become classics - books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal - always remind me of retired colonels and majors and captains who, having reached the age limit, find themselves retired on half pay. ↗

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

#always #become #books #captains #classics

If you ever looked at me once with what I know is in you, I would be your slave. ↗

— Emily Brontë

#love #obsession #love

Countless words count less than the silent balance between yin and yang ↗

— Lao Tzu

#classics #tao-te-ching #balance

Unasked, Unsought, Love gives itself but is not bought ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#poetry #love

There's no question that Whale's movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful. ↗

— Bill Condon

#movies #question #successful #were #whale

Do not suppose, however, that I intend to urge a diet of classics on anybody. I have seen such diets at work. I have known people who have actually read all, or almost all, the guaranteed Hundred Best Books. God save us from reading nothing but the best. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#almost #anybody #best #books #classics

I call it an old-fashioned seafood house for the new millennium. We are trying to update what we know as old fish houses and places like that, which are great, but I want to give it a new, fresh look with updated versions of the classics we all love. ↗

— Todd English

#classics #fish #fresh #fresh look #give

In the past, I used to counter any such notions by asking myself: 'Would you really want President Hattersley?' I now find that possibility rather cheers me up. With his chubby, Dickensian features and his knowledge of T.H. Green and other harmless leftish political classics, Hattersley might not be such a bad thing after all. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#any #asking #bad #bad thing #cheers

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

— Richard Attenborough

#deal #fiction #great #great deal #i