The Class Quotes

“Something may have been lost in translation, but it certainly wasn't love”
― Erich Segal, The Class

“Quiet heroism or youthful idealism, or both? What do we know? That life without heroism and idealism is not worth living - or that either can be fatal?”
― Erich Segal, The Class

“They glanced at one another like tigers taking measure of a menacing new rival. But in this kind of jungle you could never be sure where the real danger lurked.”
― Erich Segal, The Class

“Although champagne was served, the mood was curiously subdued. After this reunion, they would probably never meet together as a class again—at least not in such numbers. They would spend the next decades reading obituaries of the men who had started out in 1954 as rivals and today were leaving Harvard as brothers. This was the beginning of the end. They had met once more and just had time enough to learn that they liked one another. And to say goodbye.”
― Erich Segal, The Class

“the more widely circulated version of the Crimson, i.e., The New York Times.”
― Erich Segal, The Class

“There, the only thing he learned that he did not already know was the Israeli principle of leadership, which could be summed up in two words: “Follow me.” Officers lead all missions from the front.”
― Erich Segal, The Class

“La Rive Gauche, on Wisconsin Avenue. According to the State Department in-jokes, this was the most exclusive place in Washington. For its clientele was made up almost entirely of CIA and KGB agents watching one another watching other people.”
― Erich Segal, The Class

“looked at me with a sadness in his eyes that I’d never seen before and said softly, “It’s impossible to be a soldier and a complete human being.”
― Erich Segal, The Class

“I don’t understand,” she said. “What is a George Keller?” “A crazy Hungarian and my Harvard classmate.” “From what you’ve told me so far, all your Harvard classmates are crazy.”
― Erich Segal, The Class

“Look—Kennedy won every prize. The sweet fruition of an earthly crown. And yet they’ll bury him with fully half a life still left unlived.”
― Erich Segal, The Class

“The university was proud to have him. But, Andrew Eliot ’58 had a quality that set him apart from every other member of his Harvard class. He was not ambitious.”
― Erich Segal, The Class

“Inside the cavernous hall, beneath a giant stained-glass window, stood the future leaders of the world. Nobel Prize winners, tycoons of industry, brain surgeons, and a few dozen insurance salesmen.”
― Erich Segal, The Class