Demetrius Quotes

#1. The first printed Greek Homer had appeared in 1488, in Florence, published by an Athenian, Demetrius Chalcondyles,

Adam Nicolson

#2. O, teach me how you look, and with what art You sway the motion of Demetrius' heart.-Helena

William Shakespeare

#3. DEMETRIUS
... do I not in plainest truth
Tell you, I do not, nor I cannot love you?
HELENA
And even for that do I love you the more.

William Shakespeare

#4. She released him and Kleitos rubbed his neck, glaring at the two guards outside her door.
"And you do nothing?" he demanded.
Demetrius shrugged. "Our orders are quite specific, Chancellor - " "Never mind!

G.A. Aiken

#5. Demetrius paid for the tickets, so I guess it really doesn't matter.

S.B. Johnson

#6. Wherefore was I to this keen mockery born?
When at your hands did I deserve this scorn?
Is't not enough, is't not enough, young man,
That I did never, no, nor never can,
Deserve a sweet look from Demetrius' eye,
But you must flout my insufficiency?

William Shakespeare

#7. Ay, in the temple, in the town, the field, You do me mischief. Fie, Demetrius! Your wrongs do set a scandal on my sex: We cannot fight for love, as men ay do; We should be woo'd, and were not made to woo. I'll follow thee, and make a heaven of hell, To die upon the hand I love so well.

William Shakespeare

#8. Demetrius: Villain, what hast thou done?
Aaron: That which thou canst not undo.
Chiron: Thou hast undone our mother.
Aaron: Villain, I have done thy mother.

William Shakespeare

#9. Demetrius appeared

R. Cameron Cooke

#10. DEMETRIUS
Relent, sweet Hermia: and, Lysander, yield
Thy crazed title to my certain right.
LYSANDER
You have her father's love, Demetrius;
Let me have Hermia's: do you marry him.

William Shakespeare

#11. It was a saying of Demetrius Phalereus, that "Men having often abandoned what was visible for the sake of what was uncertain, have not got what they expected, and have lost what they had, - being unfortunate by an enigmatical sort of calamity."

Athenaeus

#12. they were that rarest of human creatures: genuinely happy people.

Nancy Thayer

#13. Engineers created the wealth. And during the 1990s Silicon Valley had created a fantastic amount of new wealth.

Michael Lewis

#14. I will go tell him of Hermia's flight:
Then to the wood will he to-morrow night
Pursue her; and for this intelligence
If I have thanks, it is a dear expense:
But herein mean I to enrich my pain,
To have his sight thither and back again.

William Shakespeare

#15. You were tossed away like a pair of beautiful, brand new shoes that did not quite fit.

Donna K. Childree

#16. I've been in love with Natalie Portman for a long time now. She's flawless.

Brant Daugherty

#17. The shining was back, and strong. The question was, why now?

Stephen King

#18. If future generations ask us what we are fighting for [in World War Two], we shall tell them the story of Lidice.

Frank Knox

#19. She wrote to him fairly regularly, from a paradise of triple exclamation points and inaccurate observations.

J.D. Salinger

#20. The founding father of Kenya, Jomo Kenyatta, was noted as saying, "When the missionaries arrived, the Africans had the land and the missionaries had the Bible. They taught us how to pray with our eyes closed. When we opened them, they had the land and we had the Bible.

Michael Frost

#21. A young man, when sliced up by glass From a footballer's tragic mis-pass Said, 'Hey, there's no harm Done; it's only an arm. I'm just thankful it wasn't my arse.

J.L. Merrow

#22. Self-help is the best help

Aesop