Aphrodite Quote by Bettany Hughes

“Aphrodite put off her famous belt, in which all the charms of love are woven, potency, desire, lovely whispers, and the force of seduction,…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

Aphrodite-Venus had become not a subject of adoration, but an agent of exploitation. From the moment Christian society perceived sex not as a gift…

— Bettany Hughes

She loved the sea for its storms alone, cared for vegetation only when it grew here and there among ruins. She had to extract…

— Gustave Flaubert

“And it was told that as soon as Poseidon saw the young Goddess, who looked no more than eighteen years of age, by human…

— Nicholas Chong

“She alone was left standing, amid the accumulated riches of her mansion, while a host of men lay stricken at her feet. Like those…

— Emile Zola

“The idea that Aphrodite was simply a representation of carnal lust is the product of much later representations of her. In fact, the representation…

— Charles River Editors

“Again, there were maidens who cherished the firm belief that he had come from the sea. Because within his breast could be heard the…

— Yukio Mishima

“Imaginings and resonances and pain and small longings and prejudices. They mean nothing against the resolute hardness of the sea. They meant less than…

— Colm Tóibín

The sea always filled her with longing, though for what she was never sure.

— Cornelia Funke

“Accustomed to the calm aspects of things, she turned, instead, toward the more tumultuous. She loved the sea only for its storms, and greenery…

— Gustave Flaubert

“On a summer morning she woke to a sense of returning health. She had been lying like a waste shore, at low spring-tide, covered…

— George MacDonald

“We heard of this woman who was out of control. We heard that she was led by her feelings. That her emotions were violent.…

— Susan Griffin