Quotes About The Trojan War

#1. 'Troy' is an adaptation of the Trojan War myth in its entirety, not 'The Iliad' alone. 'The Iliad' begins with the quarrel between Achilles and Agamemnon over the slave girl Briseis nine years into the war. The equivalent scene occurs halfway through my script.

David Benioff

#2. What if it lines up like it did in the Trojan War ... Athena versus Poseidon?"
"I don't know. But I just know that I'll be fighting next to you."
"Why?"
"Because you're my friend, Seaweed Brain. Any more stupid questions?

Rick Riordan

#3. I can't measure up to Homer. His composition has survived for nearly three millennia and remains the world's most beautiful and mournful depiction of war. But the story of the Trojan War does not belong to Homer. The characters he employs were legendary long before he was born.

David Benioff

#4. Smiles from girls like you are what started the Trojan War.

Amanda Lance

#5. Odysseus was a great hero in the Trojan War. When he left Troy to sail home to Ithaca, he was lost at sea for ten years. He begged the brave and mighty Zeus for help, and kindly Zeus sent winds to take him home.

Kate McMullan

#6. Posttraumatic stress is something that's always existed. I think that the earliest recording was during the Trojan War, but it's only recently that we're beginning to be aware of it.

Janine Di Giovanni

#7. Love conquers all," Aphrodite promised. "Look at Helen and Paris. Did they let anything come between them?"
"Didn't they start the Trojan War and get thousands of people killed?"
"Pfft. That's not the point. Follow your heart.

Rick Riordan

#8. I should like to know who has been carried off, except poor dear me - I have been more ravished myself than anybody since the Trojan war.

Lord Byron

#9. The Trojan War without Homer was nothing more than a battle over trade routes.

B.W. Powe

#10. He that has a secret to hide should not only hide it but hide that he has to hide it.

Thomas Carlyle

#11. With rap music, because it's all so on the street, you get treated like a street cat: "All right, you've been eatin' enough, you're fat, get out of the way now and let somebody else come by."

Nas

#12. Temptation leans on the doorbell, but opportunity knocks only once.

Malorie Blackman

#13. Mr. Rihani is a man of ardent poetic temperament, a clever poet, and a man of unworldly ideals.

Edwin Markham

#14. I'm pretty much a straight guy on 'The Office.' We can't all be crazies. You need some balance.

Oscar Nunez

#15. They came back
To widows,
To fatherless children,
To screams, to sobbing.
The men came back
As little clay jars
Full of sharp cinders.

Aeschylus

#16. In fact, if Paris had not been seated next to Helen when he dined in the court of Menelaus, there never would have been a Trojan War." A

Amor Towles

#17. Hero," he said softly, in a manner that was much like his father's. "Vengeance and glory are the ways of the Greeks and the Trojans. We are of the Herdsmen.

Sulari Gentill

#18. Choose,' she says, reaching out towards him. 'Choose to which of us the apple most belongs...

Emily Hauser

#19. I know better than to get in between three women arguing. If you'll remember, the whole Trojan War started over that. (Wulf)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#20. Are the legends true?" asked Cadmus. "Of course they are," replied Pan. "We live in an age of legends.

Sulari Gentill

#21. It was as if every day a piece of my heart was plucked out by birds and carried away little by little.

Bart Baker

#22. Going to America increased the build up on me, especially as the war was going on there. In a way we'd turned out to be a Trojan horse. The 'Fab Four' moved right to the top and then sang about drugs and sex and then I got into more and more heavy stuff and that's when they started dropping us.

John Lennon

#23. Tell Mrs. Hudson there will be five for supper. If I am not back by eight, I will have no doubt been arrested. In that case, of course, there will be four.

Lyndsay Faye

#24. That is - your friend?"
"Philtatos," Achilles replied, sharply. Most beloved.

Madeline Miller