All Homer Quotes
- Like the generations of leaves, the lives of mortal men. Now the wind scatters the old leaves across the earth, now the living timber bursts… Across
- Yea, and if some god shall wreck me in the wine-dark deep, even so I will endure… For already have I suffered full much, and… Added
- Reproach is infinite, and knows no end So voluble a weapon is the tongue; Wounded, we wound; and neither side can fail For every man… End
- Strife and Confusion joined the fight, along with cruel Death, who seized one wounded man while still alive and then another man without a wound,… Alive
- Achilles glared at him and answered, "Fool, prate not to me about covenants. There can be no covenants between men and lions, wolves and lambs… Achilles
- By hook or by crook this peril too shall be something that we remember Crook
- He knew how to say many false things that were like true sayings. False
- They did not know her-gods are hard for mortals to recognize. Funny
- Ruin, eldest daughter of Zeus, she blinds us all, that fatal madness—she with those delicate feet of hers, never touching the earth, gliding over the… All
- …There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible—magic to make the sanest man go mad. Go
- Like a girl, a baby running after her mother, begging to be picked up, and she tugs on her skirts, holding her back as she… All
- You, why are you so afraid of war and slaughter? Even if all the rest of us drop and die around you, grappling for the… Afraid
- …but there they lay, sprawled across the field, craved far more by the vultures than by wives. Across
- Let him submit to me! Only the god of death is so relentless, Death submits to no one—so mortals hate him most of all the… All
- Why so much grief for me? No man will hurl me down to Death, against my fate. And fate? No one alive has ever escaped… Alive
- Come then, put away your sword in its sheath, and let us two go up into my bed so that, lying together in the bed… Bed
- And for yourself, may the gods grant you your heart's desire, a husband and a home, and the blessing of a harmonious life. For nothing… Blessing
- Beauty! Terrible Beauty! A deathless Goddess-- so she strikes our eyes! Beauty
- The blade itself incites to deeds of violence. Blade
- Even the bravest cannot fight beyond his power Beyond
- Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth. Earth
- It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fair. All
- But listen to me first and swear an oath to use all your eloquence and strength to look after me and protect me. All
- The roaring seas and many a dark range of mountains lie between us. Dark
- His descent was like nightfall. Descent