Homer Quotes
148 quotes by 109 authors
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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
— Aristotle
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Glory to that Homer of painting, to that father of warmth and enthusiasm... he really paints men.
— Eugene Delacroix
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ours are the only farmers who can read Homer
— Thomas Jefferson
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Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, And many goodly states and kingdoms seen; Round many western islands have I been Which bards…
— John Keats
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There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics. ... We repeat, there was far more imagination in the head of Archimedes than…
— Voltaire
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Science is continually correcting what it has said. Fertile corrections... science is a ladder... poetry is a winged flight... An artistic masterpiece exists for all…
— Victor Hugo
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Nothing is more despicable than the old age of a passionate man. When the vigour of youth fails him, and his amusements pall with frequent…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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All the critics who could not make their reputations by discovering you are hoping to make them by predicting hopefully your approaching impotence, failure and…
— Ernest Hemingway
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But you know, where did the Brontes go to college? Where did George Eliot go to college? Where did Thomas Paine or Thomas Jefferson or…
— Jamaica Kincaid
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Do you remember any great poet that ever illustrated the higher fields of humanity that did not dignify the use of wine from Homer on…
— James A. McDougall
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Do we have any food that wasn't brutally slaughtered?" Homer: "Well, I think the veal died of loneliness.
— Matt Groening
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Reading the very best writers—let us say Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Tolstoy—is not going to make us better citizens. Art is perfectly useless, according to the…
— Harold Bloom
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Homer no function beer well without.
— Homer
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I think it was lucky that during most of the work on the Odyssey I lived on Homer's sea in houses that were, in one…
— Robert Fitzgerald
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Homer's whole language, the language in which he lived, the language that he breathed, because he never saw it, or certainly those who formed his…
— Robert Fitzgerald
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One should indeed read Pope with his notes available, in the Twickenham edition possibly, to see what a vast amount he did understand about Homer.
— Robert Fitzgerald
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The invention of Bob Dylan with his guitar belongs in its way to the same kind of tradition of something meant to be heard, as…
— Robert Fitzgerald
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I have an immature, Homer Simpson-like tendency to giggle when I say the words 'seminal fluids' in public.
— Stephenie Meyer
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Everything since Homer has improved, except poetry.
— Giacomo Leopardi
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Homer is one of the men of genius who solve that fine problem of art - the finest of all, perhaps - truly to depict…
— Victor Hugo
Who Wrote These Homer Quotes
109 authors contributed a total of 148 Homer Quotes, led by these top contributors: