Charybdis Quotes
- Making mathematics accessible to the educated layman, while keeping high scientific standards, has always been considered a treacherous navigation between the Scylla of professional contempt… — Gian-Carlo Rota
- He talks about the Scylla of Atheism and the Charybdis of Christianity - a state of mind which, by the way, is not conducive to… — Norman Douglas
- Anxiety and Ennui are the Scylla and Charybdis on which the bark of human happiness is most often wrecked. — William Edward Hartpole Lecky
- The petitioner's problem is to avoid Scylla without being drawn into Charybdis. — Robert H. Jackson
- For all his pain, he longed to see the author of it. Although he hated Margaret at times, when he thought of that gentle familiar… — Elizabeth Gaskell
- At this time Charybdis sucked down the seas salt water, but I reached high in the air above me, to where the tall fig tree… — Odysseus