Troy Quotes
52 quotes by 47 authors
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For they imagined as they wished--that it was a wild shot,/ an unintended killing--fools, not to comprehend/ they were already in the grip of death./…
— Homer
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Prophet may you be! If I be false, or swerve a hair from truth, when time is old and hath forgot itself, when waterdrops have…
— William Shakespeare
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In eternity this world will be like Troy, I believe, and all that has passed here will be the epic of the universe, the ballad…
— Marilynne Robinson
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Time can divorce us from the reality of people, it can separate us from people and turn them into ghosts. Or rather it is we…
— Iris Murdoch
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Bathsheba loved Troy in the way that only self-reliant women love when they abandon their self-reliance. When a strong woman recklessly throws away her strength…
— Thomas Hardy
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She is older than the rocks among which she sits; like the vampire, she has been dead many times, and learned the secrets of the…
— Walter Pater
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It's first owner...well, things didn't turn out too well for her. Her name was Helena.' Piper let that sink in. "Wait, you mean the Helena?…
— Rick Riordan
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I'll drown more sailors than the mermaid shall; I'll slay more gazers than the basalisks; I'll play the orator as well as Nestor, Decieve more…
— William Shakespeare
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I saw the Fall of Troy! World War Five! I was pushing boxes at the Boston Tea Party! Now I'm gonna die in a dungeon....…
— Russell T Davies
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Let me tell you, Alex. He's a crook. He's based here in Miami. He's a nasty piece of work." "He's mexican" Troy added.
— Anthony Horowitz
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The ship's boards were still sticky with new resin. We leaned over the railing to wave our last farewell, the sun-warm wood pressed against our…
— Madeline Miller
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I am proud of my heritage and have happily taken advantage of every opportunity to educate my teammates and Steeler Nation about American Samoa, both…
— Troy Polamalu
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Move over, Helen of Troy; Jenny Trout is going to wage a war on good health and fit bodies!
— Jennifer Armintrout
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Powerful women are either sexually voracious rulers like Catherine the Great or Elizabeth I, or treacherous bitches like Cleopatra or Helen of Troy.
— Bill Gates
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O' the mass of arms, the brilliant leadership, the courage and magnitude of the ancient armies of Greece, combined to conquer the city of Troy…
— Hipponax The Satirist
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I love my lil cuzin so much he is o smart love you troy
— Shiajohnson123
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Personally, I was never the cool kid. I was always sort of a bookworm. I would just like to be more like Troy, because he's…
— Zac Efron
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Shall I be wrong, or am I speaking the truth? My heart tells me to speak, for I think I never saw such a likeness,…
— Helen
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I see you're not hiding behind your high walls. Valiant of you. Ill-advised, but valiant.
— Agamemnon
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You come here uninvited. Go back to your ships and go home.
— Hector
Who Wrote These Troy Quotes
47 authors contributed a total of 52 Troy Quotes, led by these top contributors: