"Both 'The Lord of the Rings' and 'Dune' have stood the test of time."
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."
"Frankenstein: smash, smash all the way, one of my favorite classics."
"For a book that was written so long ago, I was definitely not expecting to laugh out loud as much as I did."
"The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath: 'I do not have words to describe how much I adore this book.'"
"The story is basically the author talking with Winnie the Pooh and he is explaining Taoism to him."
"Oscar Wilde is probably the best writer of all time; I'm just gonna say it."
"Curiouser and curiouser after all these years audiences most certainly are when it comes to Disney's Alice in Wonderland."
"Behind all of the excitement that disguises the plotting and scheming, there is ultimately a very rich storytelling tradition running through The Count of Monte Cristo."
"None are as revered as Charles Dickens' 1843 Christmas Carol."
"The Disney Classics were made in a time when people understood classic tropes and classic Tales."
"The Jungle Book was originally a novel by Rudyard Kipling published in 1894."
"These Classics are always going to be Classics, they're works of art."
"The 1977 BBC version Count Dracula is the most faithful to the book."
"One of the great classics, 'The Jungle Book,' makes it onto the list."
"There's that natural tendency in all of us to resist doing what we're told so it's no wonder really that plenty of classic bad guys in fiction's past would eventually be reclaimed and reinterpreted by audiences."
"I adore Wuthering Heights, I really really really do, I can't wait to reread it, annotate this copy and just fall in love with it all over again."
"This classic just honestly lives up to all the hype, Oscar Wilde just went places that I've never seen anyone else really go to before with their writing."
"The old stuff is often underestimated; the quality of writing is something people vastly underestimate."
"The treehouse is most likely a reference to the classic Swiss Family Robinson."
"There's someone for everyone in this world of classics."
"It's a tale as old as time, and a song as old as rhyme."
"It paints such a picture, Dracula playing this organ from the top of this castle."
"That's a 400-year-old play about a young man who has mental health issues... it's magical to me."
"Reading War and Peace is like a life achievement."
"Classics feel that way because they're always relevant."
"Most people misinterpret Gatsby... has the slightest idea what the book was about."
"Pride and Prejudice rises very superior to any novel we have lately met with."
"Frankenstein is the finest gothic horror novel ever written."
"Crime and Punishment is just the perfect novel."
"Anybody who's in their right mind is a fan of William Shakespeare."
"Talk sense to a fool and he will call you foolish." - Euripides
"The Art of War truly is a timeless masterpiece on strategy and tactics."
"I think we're in for some good Lord of the Flies."
"If we really boil down Journey to the West, isn't it really the meme 'reject humanity, return to monkey'?"
"Wuthering Heights... it has everything you could want for the autumnal season."
"A Separate Peace... is brilliant please read it."
"Great Expectations is my favorite Charles Dickens book... this story always kept me on the edge of my seat."
"The tragedy of 'Romeo and Juliet' is that the same fate that brought them together also destroyed them."
"Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, now I read a lot of fantastic classic fiction books so I do have a runner-up that is fiction but this was really one of the first philosophy books if not the first philosophy book that I read."
"Fahrenheit 451...another classic that I've been planning to read for a long time."
"If it weren't for Carmilla, we wouldn't have Dracula as we know it today."
"So it kind of felt like that first time that Dorothy knocks on the front door of the Wizard of Oz and you know it's like what do you want."
"Who is the fairest in all the land?" - the Queen's fatal mistake.
"Plato's Republic has the kind of power to intrigue and infuriate that few works can equal."
"Plato's Republic, that's almost a no-brainer."
"Dracula is a masterpiece. It's a very, very exciting book and it is responsible for so many of the iconic characters and events and stories that we have told and retold again and again."
"One of Shakespeare's better tragedies. I agree."
"In herman melville's moby dick captain ahad is an eerily compelling madman."
"A real treat for the eyes, Madame Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor."
"Crime and Punishment makes you take a hard look in the mirror."
"I want to pick out the major classic authors and read at least one book of theirs."
"...the most stunning walk out since Rhett Butler left Scarlett O'Hara."
"It's beautiful, I also got 'Mrs. Dalloway' by Virginia Woolf, which looks like this."
"'The Invisible Man' by H.G. Wells is a classic science fiction novel exploring the consequences of invisibility and the misuse of power."
"This movie is a brilliant way to bring the classic story of the Invisible Man into modern times."
"Neuromancer is often the first book that anybody thinks of when they hear cyberpunk."
"For a book that would be considered the absolute classic of Greek myth retellings, we have 'The Penelopiad' by Margaret Atwood."
"Antigone is interesting because it's a 2,500-year-old story about a girl disagreeing with authority."
"I personally love Classics; I think that there's something to be learned about books that have stood the test of time."
"Please sir, I want some more porridge."
"We're like the Three Musketeers; we're like the original Rat Pack."
"Peter Pan captures that like nothing ever has, ever again, or ever will."
"Bird Box is, at this point, a classic."
"Where the Wild Things Are is really one of the best books."
"Despite the book's length, The Count of Monte Cristo is the perfect book to get into Classics with."
"Pride and Prejudice, but poor he most certainly is not. Do you dance, Mr. Darcy? Not if I can help it."
"Frankenstein, classic one of my favorites, came out in 1931."
"His Commerce of the Prairies... remains the classic account of trail life and customs."
"The Hobbit, or There and Back Again, was written by famed fantasy novelist J.R.R. Tolkien and published in 1937."
"The fantasy genre won't be where it is today without The Lord of the Rings."
"It's like pride and prejudice, it starts off like a Jane Austen novel basically."
"It was the best of times, they were the worst of times."
"Watson, come here, I need you. And Watson says, 'I didn't even know you cared.'"
"Who ain't a slave? asks Ishmael in the opening chapter of Moby Dick."
"We're off to find the wizard, the wonderful Wizard of Oz."
"I grew up reading all those sort of classic novels like Pride and Prejudice and Emma."
"The Hobbit is Tolkien's classic; I keep going back to it over and over every year."
"It's a fabulous coming-of-age tale, a tale loved by generations of children, a classic tale of epic proportions."
"I'm wanting to read Little Women this month and I'm wanting to read some Jane Austen."
"Possum Magic, what an Australian classic."
"Infinite was the sorwes and the teres, Of olde folk, and folk of tendre yeres."
"What a beautiful book, oh my gosh, this is the first time that I've read a classic that I truly, truly really loved and gave five stars."
"It's a classic story, I really recommend it."
"It's a fantastic book, it feels like this was sort of a forgotten classic for a long time."
"O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?"
"I find it so comforting to read; it's just so classic."
"It's a coming-of-age novel which follows the story of Scout who is six years old at the beginning of the novel."
"Watership Down went on to make publishing history."
"Listening to a demon is wrong, you know, C.S. Lewis didn't think of creating this allegory was wrong and it became a classic."
"It was Elementary, My Dear Mr. Holmes."
"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland has become one of the great masterpieces of English literature, loved by children and adults the world over."
"It's almost the definition of classic literature that it refuses to allow the reader to occupy that comfortable moral position."
"The Sorrows of Young Werther is a 1774 novel by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe about a young man who is full of angst and makes bad choices."
"War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy gives us a different point of view, set in Russia."
"Murder on the Orient Express by Christie... I think this is a perfect murder mystery."
"How to win friends and influence people is the absolute godfather book of self-improvement and people's skills."
"It is well, honourable sir, the separation must be borne."
"It's kind of got that Romeo and Juliet feel of Star Cross love which I think that Shakespeare does really well."
"I finished Little Women, and I loved it. It is such a charming story."
"Tonight's film is a family film from 2003 based on one of the most beloved children's books of all time."
"There is no place like home," Dorothy declared.
"I'm very sorry indeed," said Dorothy, who was truly frightened to see the witch actually melting away like brown sugar before her very eyes.
"Look out, here I go!" With these words, the witch fell down in a brown, melted, shapeless mass and began to spread over the clean boards of the kitchen floor.
"We must go back to Oz and claim his promise," said Dorothy.
"It's one of the most underrated classics, I think it's an extraordinary early feminist book."
"Imaginary friend reminded me of discovering a classic Stephen King novel from two decades ago."
"The storm breeder was especially adapted from the classic William Austin story for the mystery theater."
"You have to like 'And Then There Were None' because this is a direct homage to 'And Then There Were None' by Agatha Christie."
"I love the whimsy of it. I love the nonsensicalness of classic fairy-tales."
"There's something very elemental and iconic about the Wizard of Oz that speaks to people in a way they can't quite put their finger on."