Top 100 Quotes About Euripides
#1. Euripides long ago said, 'who dares not speak his free thought is a slave.' I nominated myself as an 'infidel' as a challenge to thought for those who are asleep.
Luther Burbank
#2. Socrates didn't care to visit the theater, as a rule, except when the plays of Euripides (which some think, he himself had helped to compose), were performed.
Moses Mendelssohn
#3. Our Euripides the human,
With his droppings of warm tears,
and his touchings of things common
Till they rose to meet the spheres.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
#4. In the words of Euripides, 'those whom the Gods wish to destroy, first they make mad'.
Catharine Arnold
#5. I love melodrama. I love the simple fact. When you read Euripides he's a page turner. It's like reading a Mexican comic book romance.
Guy Maddin
#6. The director was only invented in the nineteenth century. So directors have only been around for 200 year,s and playwrights have been around since Sophocles and Euripides.
Sarah Ruhl
#7. Gay actors have been playing straight since Euripides.
Bryan Batt
#8. What's here doesn't please you,
what's far off you crave.
Anne Carson, from Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides
Anne Carson
#9. There is just one life for each of us: our own. - Euripides
Wayne W. Dyer
#10. Euripides questioned everything. He was a misanthrope who preferred books to men.
Edith Hamilton
#11. At an early age I sucked up the milk of Homer, Virgil, Horace, Terence, Anacreon, Plato and Euripides, diluted with that of Moses and the prophets.
Denis Diderot
#12. Increasingly, I find myself drawn to classic forms - to Euripides, Shakespeare and grand opera.
Robert Wilson
#13. I reckon I probably worked for Euripides a long time ago. I do think we have many Earth walks and it's possible that he's an old friend. Does that sound too stupid for words? Quite frankly I think I've been an actor in so many lifetimes.
Joyce DeWitt
#14. You may write twenty lines one day
or even three like Euripides in three days
and a hundred lines in one more day
and yet on the hundred, may have been expended as much good work, as on the twenty and the three.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
#15. And why should we feel anger at the world? As if the world would notice! - EURIPIDES
Ryan Holiday
#16. The sea, as Euripides says in one of his plays about Iphigenia, washes away the stains and wounds of the world.
Oscar Wilde
#17. I was thinking", he answered absently, "about Euripides; how, when he was an old man, he went and lived in a cave by the sea, and it was thought queer at the time. It seems that houses had become insupportable to him. I wonder whether it was because he had observed women so closely all his life.
Willa Cather
#18. I suppose I'd have to say that my favourite author is Homer. After Homer's Ilaid, I'd name The Odyssey, and then I'd mention a number of plays of Euripides.
William Golding
#19. Euripides was wont to say, silence was an answer to a wise man; but we seem to have greater occasion for it in our dealing with fools and unreasonable persons; for men of breeding and sense will be satisfied with reason and fair words.
Plutarch
#20. Dionysus had already been scared form the tragic stage, by a demonic power speaking through Euripides. Even Euripides was, in a sense, only a mask: the deity that spoke through him was neither Dionysus nor Apollo, but an altogether newborn demon, called Socrates.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#21. It was said of Euripides, that every verse was a precept; and it may be said of Shakespeare, that from his works may be collected a system of civil and economical prudence.
Samuel Johnson
#22. The myth is not my own; I have it from my mother. Euripides
Joseph Campbell
#23. Cleopatra stood at one of the most dangerous intersections in history; that of women and power. Clever women, Euripides had warned hundreds of years earlier, were dangerous.
Stacy Schiff
#24. Sophocles said he drew men as they ought to be, and Euripides as they were.
Aristotle.
#25. Cowards do not count in battle; they are there, but not in it.
Euripides
#26. Mankind led on by gods err all too easily.
Euripides
#27. If all men saw the fair and wise the same men would not have debaters' double strife.
Euripides
#28. Let mortal man keep to his own
Mortality, and not expect too much.
Euripides
#29. Wine is an escape from grief,
a slip into sleep,
a cool forgetting of the hot pains of day.
What better cure for being human?
Euripides
#30. Death is what men want when the anguish of living is more than they can bear.
Euripides
#31. This town must learn,
even against its will, how much it costs
to scorn a God's mysteries and to be purged.
So shall I vindicate my virgin mother
and reveal myself to mortals as a God,
the son of God.
Euripides
#32. A woman like me! What am I like that's different from you or any man
Euripides
#33. It is a good thing to be rich and strong, but it is a better thing to be loved.
Euripides
#34. In your grief, too, I weep, mother of little children, You who will murder your own, In vengeance for the loss of married love
Euripides
#35. I understand too well the dreadful act
I'm going to commit, but my judgement
can't check my anger, and that incites
the greatest evils human beings do.
Euripides
#36. Youth holds no society with grief.
Euripides
#37. Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far.
Euripides
#38. To every man, even though he be a slave, the light of heaven is sweet.
Euripides
#39. When someone isn't seen for a long time, Well, folk soon begin to imagine the worst.
Euripides
#40. Since we are mortal, friendships are best kept to a moderate level, rather than sharing the very depths of our souls.
Euripides
#41. It was my tongue that swore; my heart is unsworn.
Euripides
#42. Song brings of itself a cheerfulness that wakes the heart of joy.
Euripides
#43. Why long for death's marriage bed
which human beings all shun?
Death comes soon enough
and brings and end to everything.
Euripides
#44. Time will unveil all things to posterity.
Euripides
#45. If some appalling disaster befalls, there's Always a way for the rich.
Euripides
#46. The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children.
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#47. Few have greater riches than the joy That comes to us in visions, In dreams which nobody can take away.
Euripides
#48. Gone is the trust to be placed in oaths; I cannot understand if the gods you swore by then no longer rule, or men live by new standards of what is right.
Euripides
#49. Courage may be taught as a child us taught to speak.
Euripides
#50. A wretched child Is he who does not return his parents' care.
Euripides
#51. No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.
Euripides
#52. God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it.
Euripides
#53. There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course; a quiet conscience.
Euripides
#54. What mortal claims, by searching to the utmost limit, to have found out the nature of God, or of his opposite, or of that which comes between, seeing as he doth this world of man tossed to and fro by waves of contradiction and strange vicissitudes?
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#55. Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.
Euripides
#56. Only a madman would give good for evil
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#57. Evil men by their own nature cannot ever prosper.
Euripides
#58. Anger exceeding limits causes fear and excessive kindness eliminates respect.
Euripides
#59. He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.
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#60. The wife should yield in all things to her lord
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#61. O Zeus! why hast thou granted unto man clear signs to know the sham in gold, while on man's brow no brand is stamped whereby to gauge the villain's heart?
Euripides
#62. What we look for does not come to pass; God finds a way for what none foresaw.
Euripides
#64. He is not a lover who does not love forever.
Euripides
#65. The little done doth vanish to the mind which forward sees how much remains to do.
Euripides
#67. My tongue swore, but my mind was still unpledged.
Euripides
#68. Time will cure you, but now is your grief still young.
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#69. There is no worse evil than a bad woman; and nothing has ever been produced better than a good one.
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#70. This is courage in a man: to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.
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#71. When good men die, their goodness does not perish, but lives though they are gone. As for the bad, all that was theirs dies and is buried with them.
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#72. Nothing happens to man without the permission of God ...
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#73. I care for riches, to make gifts To friends, or lead a sick man back to health With ease and plenty. Else small aid is wealth For daily gladness; once a man be done With hunger, rich and poor are all as one.
Euripides
#74. Tell me how does it feel with my teeth in your heart!
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#75. Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.
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#76. They who are sad find somehow sweetness in tears.
Euripides
#77. Dionysus. Wilt thou be led By me, and try the venture?
Euripides
#78. Those whose cause is just will never lack good arguments.
Euripides
#79. Love distills desire upon the eyes, love brings bewitching grace into the heart ...
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#80. O what will she do, a soul bitten into with wrong?
Euripides
#81. Surely again, to heal men's wounds by music's spell.
Euripides
#82. In the hands of vicious men, a mob will do anything. But under good leaders it's quite a different story.
Euripides
#83. We'll see how the sky catches fire. We'll see how she feeds the flames with her implacable hate.
Euripides
#84. Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm; great good fortune comes to failure in the end. All is change; all yields its place and goes; to persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man. The coward despairs.
Euripides
#85. Terrible is the force of the waves of sea, terrible is the rush of the river and the blasts of hot fire, and terrible are a thousand other things; but none is such a terrible evil as woman.
Euripides
#86. Wine is a terrible foe, hard to wrestle with.
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#87. In life, the worst disasters come from passion.
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#88. Money is the wise man's religion.
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#89. Who can stop grief's avalanche once it starts to roll.
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#90. Hate is a bottomless cup; I will pour and pour
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#91. Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.
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#92. AGAMEMNON: I will not slay my children, nor shall thy interests be prospered by justice in thy vengeance for a worthless wife, while I am left wasting, night and day, in sorrow for what I did to one of my own flesh and blood, contrary to all law and justice.
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#93. To the worker, God himself lends aid.
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#94. The wise with hope support the pains of life.
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#95. There is no harbor of peace from the changing waves of joy and despair.
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#96. Surely, of all creatures that have life and will, we women are the most wretched. When, for an extravagant sum, we have bought a husband, we must then accept him as possessor of our body.
Euripides
#97. God in heaven has dominion
Over so many events.
He can frustrate what seems inevitable,
And bring to pass the thing that you least expect.
Euripides
#98. Silence is true wisdom's best reply.
Euripides
#99. Sorrow is long
when love has vanished underground.
Euripides
#100. The new-come stepmother hates the children born to a first wife.
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