Quotes About Troilus

#1. Had be been Shakespeare, he would then have written Troilus and Cressidato brand the offending sex; but being only a little dog, he began to bite them.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#2. If you want to know what are the events which cast their shadow over the hell of time of King Lear, Othello, Hamlet, Troilus and Cressida, look to see when and how the shadow lifts. What softens the heart of a man, shipwrecked in storms dire, Tried, like another Ulysses, Pericles, prince of Tyre?

James Joyce

#3. She [Cressida] knows it is men's sexual desire that makes women "angels" before they have been able to possess them; once possessed, women are "things" [Troilus and Cressida I.2, 225-28, 233-34].

Tina Packer

#4. Shakespeare's bitter play [Troilus and Cressida] is therefore a dramatization of a part of a translation into English of the French translation of a Latin imitation of an old French expansion of a Latin epitome of a Greek romance. (p. 55)

Gilbert Highet

#5. Words, vows, gifts, tears, and love's full sacrifice, He offers in another's enterprise; But more in Troilus thousand-fold I see Than in the glass of Pandar's praise may be, Yet hold I off.

William Shakespeare

#6. I think sadly in any industry and in any work related environments females always strive to achieve a certain amount of perfection whether they be skinny or pretty. It's constant in our society.

Mila Kunis

#7. Do I dare
Disturb the universe?
In a minute there is time
For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.

T. S. Eliot

#8. The boys wore black T-shirts, dark hoodies and permanent sneers and their hair was an open rebellion against society and interfering mothers. - Zombiekins

Kevin Bolger

#9. I love boats. Boats are great. You can get all kinds of places and meet all kinds of interesting people, and you never know if they're going to try to eat you or worship you.

Ursula Vernon

#10. We try to evaluate how much value an employee is creating here and reward them accordingly.

Charles Koch

#11. Thou sodden-witted lord! thou hast no more brain than I have in mine elbows.

William Shakespeare

#12. Make-up is the last thing to enhance your beauty, but it's very important because it builds up your self-confidence and gives you more courage.

Evelyn Lauder

#13. Customers pay a price, but they remember the value.

Ron Kaufman

#14. Some black filmmakers will say, "I don't want to be considered a black filmmaker, I'm a filmmaker." I don't think that. I'm a black woman filmmaker.

Ava DuVernay

#15. Would the fountain of your mind were clear again,
that I might water an ass at it!

William Shakespeare

#16. He that is proud eats up himself: pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle.

William Shakespeare

#17. The obligation of a society as prosperous as ours is to figure out how nobody gets left too far behind.

Warren Buffett

#18. I was swept away by the irresistible desiderium incognitti which breaks down all obstacles and refuses to recognise the impossible

Sven Hedin

#19. Just more of that endless, useless knowledge you absorb when you're in a relationship, with no meaning or relevance outside of that relationship. When the relationship's gone, you're stuck knowing all this garbage.

Rob Sheffield

#20. Thoughts are powerful
So be careful

Patrick Cruz