Catullus Quotes: top 36 famous quotes about Catullus

Catullus Quotes & Sayings

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Away with you, water, destruction of wine! — Catullus

I hate and I love, and who can tell me why? — Catullus

I hate and I love. You ask why I do this? I do not know, but I feel and I am tormented. - CATULLUS — Kami Garcia

I hate and I love
Why do I, you ask ?
I don't know, but it's happening
and it hurts — Catullus

Oh, this age! How tasteless and ill-bred it is. — Catullus

We see not our own backs. — Catullus

One attraction of Latin is that you can immerse yourself in the poems of Horace and Catullus without fretting over how to say, "Have a nice day." — Peter Brodie

The vows that woman makes to her fond lover are only fit to be written on air or on the swiftly passing stream. — Catullus

I hate and love. You ask, perhaps, how can that be? I know not, but I feel the agony. — Catullus

I hate and I love. And if you ask me how, I do not know: I only feel it, and I am torn in two. — Catullus

Id Faciam
What I hate I love. Ask the crucified hand that holds
the nail that now is driven into itself, why. — Catullus

Stop wishing to merit anyone's gratitude or thinking that anyone can become grateful. — Catullus

I hate and love. And why, perhaps you'll ask.
I don't know: but I feel, and I'm tormented. — Catullus

All think what other people think;
All know the man their neighbor knows.
Lord, what would they say
Did their Catullus walk that way? — William Butler Yeats

What a woman tells her lover in desire
should be written out on air & running water. — Catullus

I write of youth, of love, and have access by these to sing of cleanly wantonness. — Catullus

Nothing is more silly than silly laughter. — Catullus

But you shall not escape my iambics. — Catullus

Give up wanting to deserve any thanks from anyone, or thinking anybody can be grateful. — Catullus

I hate and I love. Why do I do this, you may ask? I do not know, but I feel it, and I am tortured. — Catullus

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion. — Catullus

I hate & love. And if you should ask how I do both,
I couldn't say; but I feel it , and it shivers me. — Catullus

You think I'm a sissy?
I will sodomize you and face-fuck you. — Catullus

Now Spring restores the balmy heat, now Zephyr's sweet breezes calm the rage of the equinoctial sky. — Catullus

Every one has his faults: but we do not see the wallet on our own backs. — Catullus

I hate and I love. Wherefore do I so, peradventure thou askest. I know not, but I feel it to be thus and I suffer. — Catullus

For the godly poet must be chaste himself, but there is no need for his verses to be so. — Catullus

My lady's sparrow is dead, the sparrow which was my lady's delight — Catullus

I can imagine no greater misfortune for a cultured people than to see in the hands of the rulers not only the civil, but also the religious power. — Catullus

What women say to lovers, you'll agree, One writes on running water or on air. — Catullus

There is nothing more foolish than a foolish laugh. Risu inepto res ineptior nulla est — Catullus

Better a sparrow, living or dead, than no birdsong at all. — Catullus

Hail and farewell — Catullus

Ave Atque Vale
Hail and farewell — Catullus

In perpetuum, frater, ave atque vale. (Forever and ever, brother, hail and farewell.) — Catullus

Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred, then a thousand more. — Catullus