Iliad Quotes

24 Iliad quotes by 18 unique authors

Socrates, in Plato, formulates ideas of order: the Iliad, like Shakespeare, knows that a violent disorder is a great order. — Harold Bloom
If atoms do, by chance, happen to combine themselves into so many shapes, why have they never combined together to form a house or a… — Michel de Montaigne
No ancient story, not even Homer's Iliad or Odyssey, has remained as popular through the course of time. The story of Rama appears as old… — David Frawley
If one puts an infinite number of monkeys in front of typewriters, and lets them clap away, there is a certainty that one of them… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Something greater than the Iliad now springs to birth -Nescio quid maius nascitur Iliade — Propertius
The Bible is to religion what the Iliad is to poetry — Joseph Joubert
No particular music makes me feel nostalgic. If it's great, it just keeps me in the present moment. That level of music is like a… — Wynton Marsalis
One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey. — Raymond Queneau
No one is moral among the god-controlled puppets of the _Iliad_. Good and evil do not exist. — Julian Jaynes
A very great Iliad... concerns the creation of a nation. — Raymond Queneau
The Odyssey is, indeed, one of the greatest of all stories, it is the original romance of the West; but the Iliad, though a magnificent… — George Saintsbury
The Iliad is the private lives of people thrown into disorder by history. — Raymond Queneau
Culture is not created by command. It creates itself, arising spontaneously from the necessities of men and their social cooperative activity. No ruler could ever… — Rudolf Rocker
If the world becomes pagan and perishes, the last man left alive would do well to quote the Iliad and die. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
It doesn't seem to me that anyone has discovered much that's new since the Iliad or the Odyssey. — Raymond Queneau
My business is to succeed, and I’m good at it. I create my Iliad by my actions, create it day by day. — Napoleon Bonaparte
He will find one English book and one only, where, as in the "Iliad" itself, perfect plainness of speech is allied with perfect nobleness; and… — Matthew Arnold
Be that blind bard who on the Chian strand, By those deep sounds possessed with inward light, Beheld the Iliad and the Odyssey Rise to… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name. — Aldous Huxley
Fiction has consisted either of placing imaginary characters in a true story, which is the Iliad, or of presenting the story of an individual as… — Raymond Queneau
The Iliad is only great because all life is a battle, The Odyssey because all life is a journey, The Book of Job because all… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
And overpowered by memory Both men gave way to grief. Priam wept freely For man - killing Hector, throbbing, crouching Before Achilles' feet as Achilles… — Homer
It is perhaps not surprising, amid the general leveling of individual aspirations in the growing megalopolis that it was the "Odyssey", not the "Iliad" which… — Cedric H Whitman
The basic story of "The Iliad" seems not even very servicable, for it has few parallels anywhere. — Cedric H Whitman

Who Wrote These Iliad Quotes

18 authors contributed a total of 24 Iliad Quotes as follows: