Troilus And Cressida Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. There's an old Ritadarion saying. You're never more alive than when you walk hand in hand with death. (Syn)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#5. Not the least of the qualities that go into the making of a great ruler is the ability of letting others serve him.

Cardinal Richelieu

#6. You can always think of something like the Xbox 360 as a super set-top box that can do everything the set-top box does, but then have the graphics to do the games as well.

Bill Gates

#7. Remembering is painful, it's difficult, but it can be inspiring and it can give wisdom.

Paul Greengrass

#8. I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Winston Churchill

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

William Shakespeare

#10. It pained me to imagine how our twosome appeared to others, marked as the kind of girls who belonged to each other.

Emma Cline

#11. John von Neumann draws attention to what seemed to him a contrast. He remarked that for simple mechanisms, it is often easier to describe how they work than what they do, while for more complicated mechanisms, it is usually the other way around.

Edsger Dijkstra

#12. Education is the foundation upon which we build our future.

Christine Gregoire

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

William Shakespeare

#14. If one faces facts one must admit that nearly everything describable as Socialist literature is dull, tasteless, and bad

George Orwell

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

William Shakespeare

#16. Friends I would like to challenge you to do an experiment, in the privacy of your studies. Everywhere you see the name "Jesus" in the Bible, replace it with the word light and see what that does to you.

Sunday Adelaja

#17. Still, from what he had observed in Annawadi, the fact that a boy knew about the gods didn't mean the gods would look after the boy.

Anonymous

#18. He took in a premeditated breath, closed his eyes, and exhaled into the nye at his lips, playing a new tune.
It was not the sad music of waiting. Nor
was it a melody of his heritage. It was a call to the earth. To Allah. To
the country within him.

Susan Abulhawa

#19. Some of us have deeper feelings for one over another. It can't be helped. It's chemistry. It's inherent. You can't make yourself love someone you don't and you can't make yourself stop loving someone you do.

Kate McGahan

#20. Death is not the end of life; it is only the gateway to eternity.

Billy Graham

#21. I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them see mortality very clearly.

Gary Shteyngart