Troilus Cressida Quotes

#1. Father was made for romance. For him there was no such thing as a fact.

Sherwood Anderson

#2. What does an actor know about politics?

Ronald Reagan

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

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

#5. Men of his strength of purpose, and customary sagacity, if they chance to adopt a mistaken opinion in practical matters, so wedge it and fasten it among things known to be true, that to wrench it out of their minds is hardly less difficult than pulling up an oak.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#6. 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

#7. The highest praise we can attribute to any writer, painter, sculptor, builder, is, that he actually possessed the thought or feeling with which he has inspired us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#8. You don't need to buy a $7 billion company to penetrate maritime security. The Mafia doesn't buy FedEx to smuggle.

James Carafano

#9. America is now wholly given over to a damned mob of scribbling women

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

William Shakespeare

#11. 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

#12. 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