Talk:Classics

Quotations from Classics
I have just removed a section on "modern quotations about the classics" from Classics as listcruft which is more appropriate on Wikiquote. I am not at all sure if/which of these are appropriate here, though, so I'll leave them on the talk page and let actual wikiquote editors decide what they want to do with them.

— Sir Winston Churchill, Roving Commission: My Early Life —Robert Frost, The Death of the Hired Man —Thomas Gaisford, Christmas sermon, Christ Church, Oxford. —Friedrich Nietzsche, Unzeitgemässe Betrachtungen —George Orwell
 * "I would make them all learn English: and then I would let the clever ones learn Latin as an honour, and Greek as a treat."
 * "He studied Latin like the violin, because he liked it."
 * "Nor can I do better, in conclusion, than impress upon you the study of Greek literature, which not only elevates above the vulgar herd but leads not infrequently to positions of considerable emolument."
 * "I enquire now as to the genesis of a philologist and assert the following: 1. A young man cannot possibly know what the Greeks and Romans are. 2. He does not know whether he is suited for finding out about them."
 * "I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment."

Caeciliusinhorto (talk) 11:12, 18 May 2016 (UTC)