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Tragedy (play)9 quotes
Mere cleverness is not wisdom. — Euripides · 405 BCFor God hates utterly
The bray of bragging tongues. — Sophocles · 442 BCZeus, author of all, worker of all! For what is brought to pass for mortal men save by will of Zeus? What herein is not wrought of god? — Aeschylus · 458 BCLove, unconquerable,
Waster of rich men, keeper
Of warm lights and all-night vigil
In the soft face of a girl:
Sea-wanderer, forest-visitor!
Even the pure immortals cannot escape you,
And mortal man, in his one day's dusk,
Trembles before your glory. — Sophocles · 442 BCThe tyrant is a child of Pride
Who drinks from his great sickening cup
Recklessness and vanity,
Until from his high crest headlong
He plummets to the dust of hope. — Sophocles · 430 BCLove distills desire upon the eyes,
love brings bewitching grace into the heart
of those he would destroy.
I pray that love may never come to me
with murderous intent,
in rhythms measureless and wild.
Not fire nor stars have stronger bolts
than those of Aphrodite sent
by the hand of Eros, Zeus' child. — Euripides · 428 BCAll 9 quotes →Greek tragedy8 quotes
For God hates utterly
The bray of bragging tongues. — Sophocles · 442 BCZeus, author of all, worker of all! For what is brought to pass for mortal men save by will of Zeus? What herein is not wrought of god? — Aeschylus · 458 BCLove, unconquerable,
Waster of rich men, keeper
Of warm lights and all-night vigil
In the soft face of a girl:
Sea-wanderer, forest-visitor!
Even the pure immortals cannot escape you,
And mortal man, in his one day's dusk,
Trembles before your glory. — Sophocles · 442 BCThe tyrant is a child of Pride
Who drinks from his great sickening cup
Recklessness and vanity,
Until from his high crest headlong
He plummets to the dust of hope. — Sophocles · 430 BCLove distills desire upon the eyes,
love brings bewitching grace into the heart
of those he would destroy.
I pray that love may never come to me
with murderous intent,
in rhythms measureless and wild.
Not fire nor stars have stronger bolts
than those of Aphrodite sent
by the hand of Eros, Zeus' child. — Euripides · 428 BCNo, death would be better, for that would be a milder lot than tyranny. — Aeschylus · 458 BCAll 8 quotes →Greek theater2 quotes
Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering. — Aeschylus · 458 BCWho told them
that they were dead. — AeschylusTragic play2 quotes
Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering. — Aeschylus · 458 BCWho told them
that they were dead. — Aeschylus