Aphrodite Quote by Bettany Hughes

All women are not Helen, I know that, but have Helen in their hearts.

— William Carlos Williams

“Some call ships, infantry or horsemen The greatest beauty earth can offer; I say it is whatever a person Most lusts after. Showing you…

— Sappho

“Helen?" Not Helen of -?" "Ten years the Trojan War raged. No god was spared. No hero. No Amazon. So it will be if…

— Leigh Bardugo

“Helen of Troy, Venus rising from the sea, the females of the kardashian tribe.”

— Kallista Dane

“Well, if Helen were not one of that family, I should not dislike her. She is civil enough, and promised to show the girls…

— Emily Eden

“Perhaps it was Helen's way of falling in love--a curious way to Margaret, whose agony and whose contempt of Henry were yet imprinted with…

— E.M. Forster

Helen of Troy, a hooker from Upstate New York. Never got a dinner!

— Red Buttons

“Books, she thought, grew of themselves. She never had time to read them. Alas! even the books that had been given her, and inscribed…

— Virginia Woolf

“I want you to be able to see clearly." He paused, and she saw his jaw tighten. "Everything." What did that mean? Perhaps more…

— Megan Frampton

Passing beauties are only the fugitive reflections of the eternal. All beauty alters and all life melts away; in short, everything passes with marvelous…

— Eliphas Levi

“Homer lets us each make our own Helen; and so she is immortal.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“She was one of those women whose features are not perfect and who in their moments of dimness may not seem even pretty, but…

— Edmund Wilson