Quotes About Antiquity

I think the greatest difference between China and the West, which can never be made up, is that the Chinese are fond of antiquity, but neglect the present [whereas] Westerners are struggling in the present in order to supersede the past.

What? A character almost as awful as Phaedre, and quite as desolate as Antigone, represented by a graceful coquette in point lace and pearls, who will take poison as sweetly as if it were a cup of coffee, and will die with elaborate care not to tumble her train? Preposterous!

Because the hardtack was packaged in boxes marked "B. C." (probably for "brigade commissary"), the men took to saying that the crackers were so hard that they must have been baked "before Christ.

Sometimes I think I live more closely to the past than the present.

Perhaps the world, incubating over Asiatic wisdom and Western science, will one day hatch out a civilization that will shame antiquity, deride modernity and amaze posterity.

Do you not know that from antiquity, since man was placed on the earth,

Is this your jubilant city, whose origin is from antiquity, whose feet have taken her to settle far away?

then I will bring you down with those who descend to the Pit, to the people of antiquity. I will make you dwell in the earth below like the ancient ruins, with those who descend to the Pit, so that you will no longer be inhabited or set in splendor in the land of the living.