Thebes Quotes
9 quotes by 7 authors
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The cat of the slums and alleys, starved, outcast, harried, still keeps amid the prowlings of its adversity the bold, free, panther-tread with which it…
— Hector Hugh Munro
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Now the Fates are here on the beach, three shadows blacker than black, walking through the dunes and looking for their own. Just shadows, lamb-white…
— Janet Morris
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Ask yourselves if the gods are angry, you who have seen Harmony come among us, walk among us, touch us, look kindly upon us. We…
— Janet Morris
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"Godling? Demigod?" Lysis nearly howled. "You'd be beaten black and blue in Thebes, and staked out overnight for claims like that. In Sparta, the secret…
— Janet Morris
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All writing is by the grace of God. People do not deserve to have good writing, they are so pleased with bad. In these sentences…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy In sceptred pall come sweeping by, Presenting Thebes, or Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine.
— John Milton
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Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?
— Bertolt Brecht
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Now, after these things were done, the Pharaoh and his Queen drove through the hosts of Egypt in their golden chariot, and received the homage…
— H. Rider Haggard
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Over the door of the library in Thebes is the inscription "Medicine for the soul.
— Diodorus Siculus
Who Wrote These Thebes Quotes
7 authors contributed a total of 9 Thebes Quotes as follows: