Iliad Quotes: top 43 famous quotes about Iliad

Iliad Quotes & Sayings

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Antilochus! You're the most appalling driver in the world! Go to hell! — Homer

Acadia "Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again." Homer, The Iliad — Mia Sheridan

It doesn't seem to me that anyone has discovered much that's new since the Iliad or the Odyssey. — Raymond Queneau

If the world becomes pagan and perishes, the last man left alive would do well to quote the Iliad and die. — G.K. Chesterton

Victory passes back and forth between men. — Homer

Iliad's subject is not war or its wickedness but a crisis in how to be. — Adam Nicolson

A very great Iliad ... concerns the creation of a nation. — Raymond Queneau

Better to live or die, once and for all, than die by inches. — Homer

Till Homer's ghost came whispering to my mind.He said: I made the Iliad from such
A local row. Gods make their own importance. — Patrick Kavanagh

It is not possible to fight beyond your strength, even if you strive. — Homer

Strife, only a slight thing when she first rears her head but her head soon hits the sky as she strides across the earth. — Homer

If you are very valiant, it is a god, I think, who gave you this gift. — Homer

With Cosette's garter, Homer would make the Iliad. He would put into his poem an old babbler like me, and he would call him Nestor. — Victor Hugo

His tales took on the form of an epic poem, and I felt I was hearing some Canadian Homer reciting his Iliad of the High Arctic regions. — Jules Verne

Nay if even in the house of Hades the dead forget their dead, yet will I even there be mindful of my dear comrade. — Homer

The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name. — Aldous Huxley

Socrates, in Plato, formulates ideas of order: the Iliad, like Shakespeare, knows that a violent disorder is a great order. — Harold Bloom

Sing, O muse, of the rage of Achilles, son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans. — Homer

The Odyssey and Iliad say things about the human condition in ways we should re-acquaint ourselves with, and use as a prism to interpret though. — Robert Dessaix

There are 201 words in the Iliad and the Odyssey that occur only once in Homer and never again in the whole of Greek literature. — Adam Nicolson

It was built against the will of the immortal gods, and so it did not last for long. — Homer

The Iliad is the private lives of people thrown into disorder by history. — Raymond Queneau

Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another. — Homer

Something greater than the Iliad now springs to birth -Nescio quid maius nascitur Iliade — Propertius

I like the Iliad and the Argosy — Christopher Morley

Troy is based on the epic poem The Iliad by Homer , according to the credits. Homer's estate should sue. — Roger Ebert

The Bible is to religion what the Iliad is to poetry — Joseph Joubert

I have always known that writing fiction had little effect on the world; that if it did, young men would not have gone to war after The Iliad. — Andre Dubus

It's hard to write a war story without thinking about the 'Iliad.' Because the 'Iliad' knows everything about war. — Chang-rae Lee

No one in the Iliad is spared by it, as no one on earth is. No one who succumbs to it is by virtue of this fact regarded with contempt. — Simone Weil

Why can't death - if we must have it - be always glorious, as in 'The Iliad?' — P. J. O'Rourke

I practiced on the greatest model of storytelling we've got, which is "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey." I told those stories many, many times. — Philip Pullman

Honour to Agamemnon is a thing / That he can pick, pick up, put back, pick up again, / A somesuch you might find beneath your bed. — Christopher Logue

He knew the things that were and the things that would be and the things that had been before. — Homer

[I] thought of that line from The Iliad I love so much, about Pallas Athene and the terrible eyes shining. — Donna Tartt

My business is to succeed, and I'm good at it. I create my Iliad by my actions, create it day by day. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Choose,' she says, reaching out towards him. 'Choose to which of us the apple most belongs... — Emily Hauser

Samuel Johnson said Alexander Pope's translation of the Iliad, tuned the English tongue. — Harold Bloom

Listen!"
"Ludwig was mad, bro
But he was also bad, bro,
Was his own 'Iliad,' bro ... "
"Jonah!" Amy breathed. — Jude Watson

The earliest full-length account of a chariot race appears in Book xxiii of the Iliad. — Richard Arnold Epstein

One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey. — Raymond Queneau

Once harm has been done, even a fool understands it. — Homer

The Iliad is only great because all life is a battle, The Odyssey because all life is a journey, The Book of Job because all life is a riddle. — G.K. Chesterton