City Classic Master

Famous quotes containing the words city, classic and/or master:

““Why visit the playhouse to see the famous Parisian models, ... when one can see the French damsels, Norma and Diana? Their names have been known on both continents, because everything goes as it will, and those that cannot be satisfied with these must surely be of a queer nature.””
—For the City of New Orleans, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

“The detective novel is the art-for-art’s-sake of our yawning Philistinism, the classic example of a specialized form of art removed from contact with the life it pretends to build on.”
—V.S. (Victor Sawdon)

“The old proverb is very well parted between my master Shylock and you, sir: you have the grace of God, sir, and he hath enough.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)