Alexander Quote by Alexander the Great

“If I could not be alexander I would be Diogenes”

— Alexander the Great

If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.

— Plutarch

“If it were not my purpose to combine barbarian things with things Hellenic, to traverse and civilize every continent, to search out the uttermost…

— Alexander the Great

Diogenes found more rest in his tub than Alexander on his throne.

— Francis Quarles

When Alexander the Great visited the philosopher Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for him, Diogenes is said to have replied: ‘Yes,…

— Henry Hazlitt

When Alexander the Great addressed him with greetings, and asked if he wanted anything, Diogenes replied "Yes, stand a little out of my sunshine."

— Diogenes

“A tomb now suffices him for whom the world was not enough. [ Alexander's tombstone epitaph ]”

— Alexander the Great

I am involved in the land of a leonine and brave people, where every foot of the ground is like a well of steel,…

— Alexander the Great

I consider not what Parmenio should receive, but what Alexander should give.

— Alexander the Great

The sordid meal of the Cynics contributed neither to their tranquillity nor to their modesty. Pride went with Diogenes into his tub; and there…

— Henry Home, Lord Kames

“but because she had at once classed him in that catalogue of bipeds whom Plato endeavors to withdraw from the appellation of men, and…

— Alexandre Dumas

“There are many men in London, you know, who, some from shyness, some from misanthropy, have no wish for the company of their fellows.…

— Arthur Conan Doyle