“I am not so fortunate as to have Virgil as my guide, but I do have Dante as my inspiration.” — Michael H. Stone Copy Share Image
“Lucky is he who has been able to understand the causes of things Virgil, Georgics, Book 2” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I am Aeneas, duty-bound, and known Above high air of heaven by my fame. -AM #CymruAMbyth” — Aeneas Middleton Copy Share Image
“the dank night is sweeping down from the sky and the setting stars incline our heads to sleep.” — Virgil Copy Share Image
Greece, sound, thy Homer's, Rome thy Virgil's name, But England's Milton equals both in fame. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Roman Virgil, thou that singest Ilion's lofty temples robed in fire, — Alfred Tennyson Copy Share Image
“...as we advance in life these things fall off one by one , and I suspect we are left with only Homer… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“..and why the winter suns so rush to bathe themselves in the sea and what slows down the nights to a long… — Virgil Copy Share Image
I thought it would be nice to marry Virgil [Thomson] to have a musical background, but I never got far with the… — Peggy Guggenheim Copy Share Image
“...[T]he three greatest works are those of Homer , Dante and Shakespeare . These are closely followed by the works of Virgil… — Joseph Devlin Copy Share Image
Virgil has had a big impact on the whole defence but it starts at the front, we put pressure on the opponent.… — Joel Matip Copy Share Image
I wasn't always Rhodes, but I was always Dusty. I was never called Virgil - not by my family, not by my… — Dusty Rhodes Copy Share Image
“You [Virgil] were the lamp that led me from that night. You led me forth to drink Parnassian waters;” — Louis Markos Copy Share Image
Virgil, above all poets, had a stock which I may call almost inexhaustible, of figurative, elegant, and sounding words. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Virgil is so exact in every word, that none can be changed but for a worse; nor any one removed from its… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
“The signs of the old flame, I know them well. I pray that the earth gape deep enough to take me down… — Virgil Copy Share Image
“Virgil put it with Roman bluntness and economy. Dolus an virtus, quis in hoste requirat? cried Aeneas’s comrade as they fought their… — Thaddeus Holt Copy Share Image
Virgil has very finely touched upon the female passion for dress and shows, in the character of Camilla; who though she seems… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“Throw that dreary man Cicero out of the window, and request the divine Virgil (with the utmost love and respect) to take… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
There is an inimitable grace in Virgil's words, and in them principally consists that beauty which gives so inexpressible a pleasure to… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
“But the queen--too long she has suffered the pain of love, hour by hour nursing the wound with her lifeblood, consumed by… — Virgil Copy Share Image
Indeed, the best books have a use, like sticks and stones, which is above or beside their design, not anticipated in the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“The Greeks shape bronze statues so real they seem to breathe, And carve cold marble until it almost comes to life. The… — Virgil Copy Share Image
“The man who leveled jealous accusations at his wife on the basis of one dream brushed aside his daughter’s recurring nightmares as… — Megan Marshall Copy Share Image
“Arma virumque cano…." *Literally: "I sing of arms and man". __I sing the praises of a man's struggles__” Translation of the opening… — Virgil Copy Share Image
“Of all public figures and benefactors of mankind, no one is loved by history more than the literary patron. Napoleon was just… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“Certainly, if money could have been raised upon the book, Robert Herrick would long ago have sacrificed that last possession: but the… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“About Justice departing from the shepherds: Justice illustrates a passage from Virgil's Georgics, in which he describes how Astraea, the goddess of… — Jonathan Scott Copy Share Image
“My son, you've seen the temporary fire and the eternal fire; you have reached the place past which my powers cannot see.… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
“truth, that he wasn’t involved in the murder, but Virgil wasn’t yet ready to label him nope. After a moment, Virgil said,… — John Sandford Copy Share Image
“The scholiast who annotated Virgil was wrong. Understanding is what wearies us most of all. To live is to not think.” — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Truly Virgil was right: love was a form of sickness. It altered people, made them behave in strange and irrational ways.” — Donna Woolfolk Cross Copy Share Image
“Omnia vincit amor et nos cedamus amori is from a poem written a long time ago by a man called Virgil. The… — Renee Ericson Copy Share Image
I think there might even come a time when I would read Virgil again. Ovid's Metamorphoses, perhaps, not because the music goes… — William Golding Copy Share Image
![“I thought it would be nice to marry Virgil [Thomson] to have a musical background, but I never got far with the project.” quote by Peggy Guggenheim](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/75c/peggy-guggenheim-27198_backgrounds_i-thought-it-would-be-nice-to-marry-virg_2390818.jpg)
![“...[T]he three greatest works are those of Homer , Dante and Shakespeare . These are closely followed by the works of Virgil and Milton .” quote by Joseph Devlin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e96/joseph-devlin-30655_dante_t-he-three-greatest-works-are-those-of-h_1915452.jpg)
![“You [Virgil] were the lamp that led me from that night. You led me forth to drink Parnassian waters;” quote by Louis Markos](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/664/louis-markos-53523_quote_you-virgil-were-the-lamp-that-led-me-fro_841721.jpg)
![“But the queen--too long she has suffered the pain of love, hour by hour nursing the wound with her lifeblood, consumed by the fire buried in her heart. [...] His looks, his words, they pierce her heart and cling-- no peace, no rest for her body, love will give her none.” quote by Virgil](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/6c3/virgil-1205_aeneas_but-the-queen-too-long-she-has-suffered_2799519.jpg)
