All Catullus Quotes
- I hate and love. You ask, perhaps, how can that be? I know not, but I feel the agony. Agony
- Oh, this age! How tasteless and ill bred it is! Age
- Stop wishing to merit anyone's gratitude or thinking that anyone can become grateful. Anyone
- Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred, then a thousand more. Give
- Away with you, water, destruction of wine! Destruction
- It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion. Aside
- I hate and I love. And if you ask me how, I do not know: I only feel it, and I am torn in two. Ask
- So a maiden, while she remains untouched, remains dear to her own; but when she has lost her chaste flower with sullied body, she remains… Body
- I write of youth, of love, and have access by these to sing of cleanly wantonness. Access
- Let us live, my Lesbia, and let us love. Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus Atque
- It is difficult to suddenly give up a long love. Difficile est longum subito deponere amorem Difficile
- Brother, hello and good-bye. Frater, ave atque vale Atque
- There is nothing more silly than a silly laugh. Inspirational
- There is nothing more foolish than a foolish laugh. Risu inepto res ineptior nulla est Foolish
- To whom do I give my new elegant little book? Cui dono lepidum novum libellum? Book
- My mind's sunk so low, Claudia, because of you, wrecked itself on your account so bad already, that I couldn't like you if you were… Account
- Better a sparrow, living or dead, than no birdsong at all. All
- What a woman says to an eager lover, write it on running water, write it on air. Air
- My lady's sparrow is dead, the sparrow which was my lady's delight Dead
- Every one has his faults: but we do not see the wallet on our own backs. Backs