Quotes About The Aeneid

#1. But which of us has read every line of the Iliad, or the Aeneid, or The Divine Comedy, or Paradise Lost? Only men of epic stomach can digest these epic tales.

Will Durant

#2. My feeling about my own work is, I could be writing 'The Aeneid' and they would still have to call it chick lit or mommy lit or menopausal old hag lit.

Jennifer Weiner

#3. Sometimes," Nina clarified, "everybody tells you something because they are everybody. But why should one listen to everybody? Did everybody write the Odyssey? Did everybody write the Aeneid?" She

Amor Towles

#4. Emilia stared at me for three or four more seconds, then gave up on pumping me for information. "We should go," she decided with the force of a monarch declaring law. "I have Latin first period. The Aeneid waits for no man.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

#5. Well, sometimes everybody tells you something because it is true."
"Sometimes," Nina clarified, "everybody tells you something because they are everybody. But why should one listen to everybody? Did everybody write the Odyssey? Did everybody write the Aeneid?

Amor Towles

#6. I have read the Aeneid through more often than I have read any long poem.

C.S. Lewis

#7. If the Aeneid is language as metaphor, as the sacramental ritualizing of human experience, Cicero's speeches are language as practical tool.

Thomas Cahill

#8. In other news, a man in a tan jacket, holding a deerskin suitcase, was seen. I don't remember anything about him or why this was news, but it had seemed important a the time. I wrote it down: 'Say the important thing about the man in the tan jacket.' What was it? What was I supposed to say?

Joseph Fink

#9. 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

#10. Ah, merciless Love, is there any length to which you cannot force the human heart to go?

Virgil

#11. Let go of people who bring you down, and surround yourself with those who bring out the best in you.

Taylor Swift

#12. I hate those people who say 'I don't own a television' - I own one and I watch it whenever I can.

Martha Plimpton

#13. it's a losing battle at this point,but so was the alamo

Mary Elizabeth Summer

#14. She nourishes the poison in her veins and is consumed by a secret fire.

Virgil

#15. A person who chooses to love his or her enemies can have no enemies. That person is left only with neighbors.

Preston Sprinkle

#16. Augustine said he wept more for the death of Dido than he did for the death of his own saviour. What about Book Four, the best book of the best poem of the best poet?

Boris Johnson

#17. It's smarter to look at portions than to count calories.

Randy Jackson

#18. Acheron is the Greek Underworld river, timelessly flowing beneath Middle World consciousness, circulating through our bloodstreams in varying states from polluted to pristine. Freud was fond of this line from Virgil's Aeneid: "If I cannot bend the gods, then I shall stir up Acheron.

Mary Trainor-Brigham

#19. Let me tell you how worthwhile you are. You are infinitely valuable to God. First, God created you. Second, Jesus died for you. Third, he puts his Spirit within you. Fourth, he wants you to be with him forever in eternity. That's how valuable you are to God. You are infinitely valuable to God.

Rick Warren

#20. One of the most powerful forces in the world is the will of men and women who believe in themselves, who dare to hope and aim high, who go confidently after the things they want from life.

Richard DeVos

#21. Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. you are what you repeatedly do

Shaquille O'Neal

#22. I do not want to be labeled as an atheist; I do hate religions' stupidity and insanity, but there is nothing else I can be called.

M.F. Moonzajer

#23. Nd why the winter suns so rush to bathe themselves in the sea
and what slows down the nights to a long lingering crawl ...

Virgil

#24. Happiness is not a condition but a mindset.

Debasish Mridha

#25. One lady wrote me and told me how she wants to see me get beat up and near death and that kind of stuff.

George Eads

#26. 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

#27. The shadow of an exit of Greece from the euro zone takes on ever clearer shape, repeated apparently final attempts to reach a deal are starting to make the whole process look ridiculous. There is an ever greater number of people who feel as if the Greek government is giving them the run-around.

Sigmar Gabriel

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

Virgil

#29. Death's brother, sleep.

Virgil

#30. In times of trouble, turn to God.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#31. The bloody-minded murder those whom they envy, and for what they covet.

Dean Koontz