Alexandria Quote by Edward Gibbon

“Ezekiel looked into amber and saw God, but the Teutonic Knights saw something less noble: gold.”

— Victoria Finlay

“The mightiest kings have had their minions; Great Alexander loved Hephaestion, The conquering Hercules for Hylas wept; And for Patroclus, stern Achilles drooped. And…

— Christopher Marlowe

Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises. 'Tis the vulgar great who come dizened with gold and jewels.…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Pitiful and pitied by no one, why have I come to the ignominy of this detestable old age, who was ruler of two kingdoms,…

— Eleanor of Aquitaine

“Compare King William with the philosopher Haeckel. The king is one of the anointed by the most high, as they claim—one upon whose head…

— Robert G. Ingersoll

“Menestheus, the son of Peteus, grandson of Orneus, and the great-grandson to Erechtheus, the first man that is recorded to have affected popularity and…

— Plutarch

“The author of IRR, who worshipped the King, said he had the valor of Hector, the magnanimity of Achilles, the liberality of Titus, the…

— Barbara W. Tuchman

“Where he (Alexander) came the inhabitants either accepted him with roses and wine, or fought and were beaten. He preferred the latter.”

— William Bolitho

“All the authorities, however, agree as to the following facts:—that until the third day after Hephaestion’s death, Alexander neither tasted food nor paid any…

— Arrian

“It is not by blood, anyhow, that man's true continuity is established: Alexander's direct heir is Caesar, and not the frail infant born of…

— Marguerite Yourcenar

“Here, in Egypt, the morning of Alexander’s adventure ends. Henceforth he is divided; Alexandria is his first possession and he is no longer free.”

— William Bolitho

“Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead. In peace there's nothing so becomes…

— William Shakespeare