Quotes About Aeneas

#1. So ran the speech. Burdened and sick at heart,
He feigned hope in his look, and inwardly
Contained his anguish. [ ... ]
Aeneas, more than any, secretly
Mourned for them all

Virgil

#2. Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods. -Aeneadum genetrix, hominum divomque voluptas

Lucretius

#3. I take courage," Aeneas said. "Here too there are tears for things, and hearts are touched by the fate of all that is mortal.

Edith Hamilton

#4. Hector had no virtue?" "Of course he did. He won all his battles, till the last one." "We all do," Aeneas remarked.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#5. Does not the passage of Moses and the Israelites into the Holy Land yield incomparably more poetic variety than the voyages of Ulysses or Aeneas?

Abraham Cowley

#6. Of this trinity of classic heroes - Ulysses, Aeneas, and Achilles - Ulysses is the least obnoxious.

William A. Quayle

#7. A glorious place, a glorious age, I tell you! A very Neon renaissance - And the myths that actually touched you at that time - not Hercules, Orpheus, Ulysses and Aeneas - but Superman, Captain Marvel, and Batman.

Tom Wolfe

#8. Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all, whether we like it or not, perhaps even if we have never known them.

Angela Carter

#9. Despairing Dido, queen of ancient Carthage, slain by her own hand as her magnificent lover Aeneas lifts anchor and sails away forever: this is one of the most haunting and permanent images of the classical world.

Thomas Cahill

#10. Duty bound, Aeneas, though he struggled with desire to calm and comfort her in all her pain, to speak to her and turn her mind from grief, and though he sighed his heart out, shaken still with love if her, yet took the course heaven gave him and turned back to the fleet.

Virgil

#11. Virgil put it with Roman bluntness and economy. Dolus an virtus, quis in hoste requirat? cried Aeneas's comrade as they fought their way out of burning Troy disguised in Greek armor; which may be loosely translated: It won't matter to the enemy whether you beat him by guile or by valor.

Thaddeus Holt

#12. There's a saying," Aeneas said: "Keep an eye on Greeks when they offer gifts." He spoke wryly. "Horses, particularly.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#13. By the way, don't 'weep inwardly' and get a sore throat. If you must weep, weep: a good honest howl! I suspect we - and especially, my sex - don't cry enough now-a-days. Aeneas and Hector and Beowulf, Roland and Lancelot blubbered like schoolgirls, so why shouldn't we?

C.S. Lewis

#14. I have seen the breakups between people who love each other and rush into getting married too quickly and I do not want to make that mistake.

Paris Hilton

#15. The dank night is sweeping down from the sky
and the setting stars incline our heads to sleep.

Virgil

#16. The signs of the old flame, I know them well.
I pray that the earth gape deep enough to take me down
or the almighty Father blast me with one bolt to the shades,
the pale, glimmering shades in hell, the pit of night,
before I dishonor you, my conscience, break your laws.

Virgil

#17. every time you think you can have a normal life, something will stir up your past. So either you put a fucking bullet in your skull or figure out a way to make your remaining life mean something.

Ben Lieberman

#18. In both relationships, there were only two people: one who gave and one who sacrificed

Jodi Picoult

#19. In sinning, each man sins against all, and each man is at least partly guilt for another's sin. There is no isolated sin.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#20. I have a guest house because I don't want people in my home.

Karl Lagerfeld

#21. I recognize the vestiges of an old flame

Virgil

#22. But the queen
too long she has suffered the pain of love,
hour by hour nursing the wound with her lifeblood,
consumed by the fire buried in her heart. [ ... ]
His looks, his words, they pierce her heart and cling
no peace, no rest for her body, love will give her none.

Virgil