Quotes About Classical Mythology

#1. Many of these omnibuses were driven, oddly enough, by male models who had retired from the business, which meant that Parisians of Manet's day were transported around the city by men who had once posed as valiant biblical heroes or the vindictive deities of classical mythology.

Ross King

#2. Classical mythology is a catalogue of indescribable cruelty: [ ... ] It is a world dominated by evil, where even the most beautiful beings carry out atrocities.

Umberto Eco

#3. I have a great interest in classical mythology and I need to make a sphinx or satyr every once in awhile to satisfy those interests. ( ... )

Wendy Froud

#4. And thus Epimetheus took the lovely Pandora to wife in spite of the warning of his brother, Prometheus, then in the Caucasus, to beware of the Gods bearing gifts.

Nicholas Chong

#5. Men? Sure, I've known lots of them. But I never found one I liked well enough to marry. Besides, I've always been busy with my work. Marriage is a career in itself and to make a success of it you've got to keep working at it. So until I can give the.

Mae West

#6. Any fact that needs to be disclosed should be put out now or as quickly as possible, because otherwise the bleeding will not end.

Henry A. Kissinger

#7. Oracle of Delphi:
In my deep mystery I breathe
your fragrance swirling in
your odourless soul
I return your mystery
revealing your destiny deep in
the seed of your God Self

Ramon Ravenswood

#8. You don't spring into good cooking naked. You have to have some training. You have to learn how to eat.

Julia Child

#9. Then, having accomplished what he wanted to do, Eros decided to stop the futile battle. He recalled Phobos & Deimos from Mars & sent him Anteros & Himeros instead.
And immediately, the God of Hate turned into the God of Passion.

Nicholas Chong

#10. Where there is no difference, there is only indifference.

Louis Nizer

#11. The breed is more than the pasture. As you know, the cuckoo lays her eggs in any bird's nest; it may be hatched among blackbirds or robins or thrushes, but it is always a cuckoo ... a man cannot deliver himself from his ancestors.

Amelia Barr