Iliad Quotes
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Iliad Quotes & Sayings
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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
A very great Iliad ... concerns the creation of a nation.
— Raymond Queneau
Till Homer's ghost came whispering to my mind.He said: I made the Iliad from suchA local row. Gods make their own importance. — Patrick Kavanagh
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
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
It's hard to write a war story without thinking about the 'Iliad.' Because the 'Iliad' knows everything about war.
— Chang-rae Lee
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
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[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
