Helen Troy Quotes

#1. The soldier takes pride in saluting his Captain,
The devotee proffers a knee to his Lord,
Some back a mare thrown from a thoroughbred,
Troy backed its Helen, Troy died and adored;
Great nations blossom above,
A slave bows down to a slave.

William Butler Yeats

#2. Move over, Helen of Troy; Jenny Trout is going to wage a war on good health and fit bodies!

Jennifer Armintrout

#3. Helen of Troy, a hooker from Upstate New York. Never got a dinner!

Red Buttons

#4. Powerful women are either sexually voracious rulers like Catherine the Great or Elizabeth I, or treacherous bitches like Cleopatra or Helen of Troy

Bill Gates

#5. If the mitred bishops seen you that time, they'd be the like of the holy prophets, I'm thinking, do be straining the bars of Paradise to lay eyes on the Lady Helen of Troy, and she abroad, pacing back and forward, with a nosegay in her golden shawl.

J.M. Synge

#6. The story of a passionate woman in a stale marriage is as old as Helen of Troy.

G. Willow Wilson

#7. If Helen of Troy could have been seen eating peppermints out of a paper bag, it is highly probable that her admirers would have been an entirely different class.It is the thing you are found doing while the horde looks on that you shall be loved for - or ignored.

Djuna Barnes

#8. Enough wars have been started over this face. My face. My curse - and my mother's curse, and her mother's curse, and so on all the way back to the first woman to ever wear this face. Helen of Troy.

Josephine Angelini

#9. What Helen of Troy did in her spare time and what she was 'really like' are not questions that torture us.

Janet Malcolm

#10. Passing beauties are only the fugitive reflections of the eternal. All beauty alters and all life melts away; in short, everything passes with marvelous rapidity; beautiful Helen of Troy has become a toothless skull, then a handful of dust, then nothing.

Eliphas Levi

#11. I think Helen of Troy must have been pretty hot. She got two countries going crazy for 10 years over her.

Colin Quinn

#12. Look to your kingdoms -
I am coming for them all.

Elisabeth Hewer

#13. What did they say about Helen of Troy? That her face launched a thousand ships? That's you, you're that beautiful. A thousand ships.

Edmund White

#14. But she's only a woman!" The watch captain shook his head again. "So was Helen of Troy, sir. Look what she started.

Ruth Downie

#15. First of all, there is no need to patronize me by implying that I'm Helen of Troy when it's clear that I'm no beauty.

Lisa Kleypas