Classic Race

Famous quotes containing the words classic and/or race:

    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)

    We are a race of tit-men, and soar but little higher in our intellectual flights than the columns of the daily paper.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)