Quotes About Timeless

Nothing is there to come, and nothing past,But an eternal now does always last.

The valley below, the rock underfoot, and the mountain before him will outlast him. On the scale of this land, he is nothing; words like "shame" and "guilt" mean little here; and a reputation is no more than a fleeting blue flame, an evanescent spirit in a brandy glass.

Fine art can only be defined as exclusive, negative, absolute and timeless. It is not practical, useful, related, applicable, or subservient to anything else.

What happens between us has happened for centuries we know it from literature still it happens

Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

I've always been attracted to classic patterns in architecture, music and drama.

Pearls, including cheap ones, are always in good taste.

I love how easy pearls are to wear with anything and everything.

The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal.

You know that's history, that's why some people say that my stuff is retro, but I don't agree.

I can only perceive the royal family as an entity historically. I think I know more about the royal family from the Plantagenets in the 14th Century than the modern family.

These are classic, perennial ideals we are dealing with.

My favourite performances are by actresses like Bette Davis in 'All About Eve' or Gena Rowlands in pretty much anything - performances that have nothing to do with age.

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Artists like Mehmood, Dilip Kumar, Amitabh Bachchan are performers... they are born in centuries.

Perhaps I am old-fashioned, but black and white films still hold an affectionate place in my heart; they have an incomparable mystique and mood.

I do a lot of work that's permanent. The drawings, the sculptures, they're permanent.

La vida pastoral de otro tiempo vuelve a hallarse aquí; la misma vida bíblica, con toda su sencillez y su grandiosidad.

Seen through the gold of old Scotch, life seems more beautiful.

Had supposed India was essentially unfathomable: it was too fast, too swiftly changing to yield to any categorisation. In Varanasi, however, I found a city whose spirit seemed to denote the whole.

A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.

Books are immortal sons deifying their sires.

Whereas stories are fit for every place, reach to all persons, serve for all times, teach the living, revive the dead, so far excelling all other books, as it is better to see learning in Noblemen's lives, than to read it in Philosophers' writings.

Ciascuna per la sua bellezza allora era immediatamente antica, oggi, dopo molto tempo, è recente, nuova e rigogliosa. Sulle opere di Pericle fiorisce come una giovinezza perenne, esse si conservano allo sguardo indenni nel tempo, quasi posseggano infuso un respiro sempre fresco e un'anima che non conosce vecchiezza.