Spartans Quote by A.E. Housman

“Look north. Achilles on the rampart by the ditch: He lifts his face to 90; draws his breath; And from the bottom of his…

— Christopher Logue

“Kings and Queens aren't made from smooth sailing. They fight, they struggle, they take what's theirs, they survive and when they fall, they rise…

— Marion Bekoe

“I never asked to be a king: it was pushed on me. So if you are going to say 'Son of St Louis: gird…

— George Bernard Shaw

“The old King is dead. The new King approaches! And at his approach the world sheds its sorrow. The sings of the old King…

— Susanna Clarke

“Then, the sea fell, and the dying voice made another feeble effort, and then the sea rose high, and beat its life out, and…

— Charles Dickens

“Some thirty-six years after the death of Leonidas, King Agesilaus of Sparta, as Plutarch recounts, showed that the essential Spartan spirit, which distinguished her…

— Ernle Bradford

“And there they ring the walls, the young, the lithe. The handsome hold the graves they won in Troy; the enemy earth rides over…

— Aeschylus

“ The king sleeps still, under a mountain , and around him is assembled his warriors and his herds and his riches. By his…

— Maggie Stiefvater

“When a country is defeated, there remain only mountains and rivers, and on a ruined castle in spring only grasses thrive. I sat down…

— Matsuo Bashō

“It is a perverse tradition we honor. Kings adorn their halls with images of battles they won, the people they've conquered." He paced as…

— Aria Cunningham

“They passed the Gates of Thermopylae the following day and Alexander stopped to visit the tombs of the Spartan soldiers who had fallen one…

— Valerio Massimo Manfredi

“Took the end of the world to make us kings for a day.”

— Peter Heller