The Iliad Quotes

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

Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.

He will find one English book and one only, where, as in the "Iliad" itself, perfect plainness of speech is allied with perfect nobleness; and that book is the Bible.

My business is to succeed, and I’m good at it. I create my Iliad by my actions, create it day by day.

If one puts an infinite number of monkeys in front of typewriters, and lets them clap away, there is a certainty that one of them will come out with an exact version of the 'Iliad.'

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

Pretension may sit still, but cannot act. Pretension never feigned an act of real greatness. Pretension never wrote an Iliad, nordrove back Xerxes, nor christianized the world, nor abolished slavery.

A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.

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.

His descent was like nightfall.

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

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

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

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

A man's life breath cannot come back again-- no raiders in force, no trading brings it back, once it slips through a man's clenched teeth.

My life is more to me than all the wealth of Ilius

Is he not sacred, even to the gods, the wandering man who comes in weariness?

But listen to me first and swear an oath to use all your eloquence and strength to look after me and protect me.

Let the dead have the immortality of fame, but the living the immortality of love.

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

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

A very great Iliad... concerns the creation of a nation.

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

The Odyssey is, indeed, one of the greatest of all stories, it is the original romance of the West; but the Iliad, though a magnificent poem, is not much of a story.

I have looked warily at anthropologists ever since the day when I went to hear a great Greek scholar lecture on the Iliad, and listened for an hour to talk about bull-roarers and leopard-societies.

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

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

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

Victory passes back and forth between men.

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

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

There is but one art, to omit! Oh, if I knew how to omit I would ask no other knowledge. A man who knows how to omit would make an Iliad of a daily paper.

Be that blind bard who on the Chian strand, By those deep sounds possessed with inward light, Beheld the Iliad and the Odyssey Rise to the swelling of the voiceful sea.

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

Make room, Roman writers, make room for Greek writers; something greater than the Iliad is born.

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

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.

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

Lastly, this threefold poetry flows from three great sources - The Bible, Homer, Shakespeare.... The Bible before the Iliad, the Iliad before Shakespeare.

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.

I suppose it’s true that most great television, literature, and other forms of high art (and basic cable) benefit from a little hindsight. “M.A.S.H.” comes to mind. So does The Iliad.

The Bible is to religion what the Iliad is to poetry

The Iliad represents no creed nor opinion, and we read it with a rare sense of freedom and irresponsibility, as if we trod on native ground, and were autochthones of the soil.

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

Go over to Greece with the Iliad and Odyssey. These have elements of history, and they have non-historical elements. It's very difficult to pull them apart. And I think there's not much reason to.

For all the import and message of 'The Iliad,' it's ultimately a story that's meant to be heard, and the person hearing 'The Iliad' determines what it means.

No ancient story, not even Homer's Iliad or Odyssey, has remained as popular through the course of time. The story of Rama appears as old as civilization and has a fresh appeal for every generation.

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.

Love is a poison, ' her father responded. 'One you grow accustomed to, but does not kill you.

She didn't know how she would survive when every breath stung, every tear burned, and every step took her further from the only man she'd ever loved.