Classical Literature Quotes:

The road has been viewed as a male turf. If you think of the classic "Odyssey," of, you know, classical literature or Jack Kerouac or almost any road story, it's really about a man on the road. There's an assumption that the road is too dangerous for women.

- Gloria Steinem

source: "Gloria Steinem Shares What She Learned 'On The Road'". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. December 2, 2015.

topic: Men, Thinking, Males, Classical Literature, Turf

I love the Russian classics very much, the Russian classical literature. But I also read modern literature. As far as Russian literature is concerned, I am very fond of Tolstoy and Chekhov, and I also enjoy reading Gogol very much.

- Vladimir Putin

topic: Reading, Literature, Chekhov, Modern Literature, Classical Literature

The day is past when schools could afford to give sufficient time and attention to the teaching of the ancient languages to enable the student to get that enjoyment out of classical literature that made the lives of our grandfathers so rich.

- James Loeb

topic: Teaching, School, Past, Classical Literature

Writing detective stories is about writing light literature, for entertainment. It isn't primarily a question of writing propaganda or classical literature.

- Steig Larsson

topic: Writing, Light, Stories, Detective Stories, Classical Literature

To view an object in the proper light we must stand away from it. The study of the classical literatures gives the aloofness which cultivates insight. In learning to live with peoples and civilizations that have long ceased to be alive, we gain a vantage point, acquire an enlargement and elevation of thought, which enable us to study with a more impartial and liberal mind the condition of the society around us.

- John Lancaster Spalding

source: John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

topic: Light, Views, Civilization, Enlargement, Classical Literature

Some of what we read in classical literature is not relative to our condition, but then many women novelists and poets have turned it upside down and told the stories from the other point of view.

- Margaret Drabble

source: Interview with Lydia Perović, www.believermag.com.

topic: Classical Literature