Iliad Quote by Homer Download Open image “He knew the things that were and the things that would be and the things that had been before.” — Homer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Iliad Would be
He that knew all that learning ever writ, Knew only this - that he knew nothing yet. — Aphra Behn Copy Share Image
“He knew that any given thing on the face of the earth could reveal the history of all things. One could open a book… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
He had always known what I did not know and what, when I learned it, I was always able to forget. But I did… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
He knew now, and the knowledge was hard, that his task had never been to undo what he had done, but to finish what… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“He knew everything when he started. The others can’t ever learn what he was born with.” — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Early on, he'd learned to enjoy simple things, things that couldn't be bought, and he had a hard time understanding people who felt otherwise. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“They knew a tremendous number of things — But was it worthwhile knowing all these things if they did not know the one important… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Everything you know, all the things that you thought were important, drift into the background. And even things that were important really come to… — Orlando Bloom Copy Share Image
Everything you know, all the things that you thought were important, drift into the background. And even things that were important really come to… — Orlando Bloom Copy Share Image
“...[he] understood that some things mattered and some things did not and that the happy people in this world were those who could easily… — Arthur Phillips Copy Share Image
He had to choose between something he had become accustomed to and something he wanted to have. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“We know everything we knew that was worth knowing, that's a crucial distinction.” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The Lord gives and the Lord takes away, as it pleases him, for he can do all things. — Homer Copy Share Image
“Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story of that man skilled in all ways of contending, the wanderer, harried for years… — Homer Copy Share Image
Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another. — Homer Copy Share Image
“And Zeus said: “Hera, you can choose some other time for paying your visit to Oceanus — for the present let us devote ourselves… — Homer Copy Share Image
Ruin, eldest daughter of Zeus, she blinds us all, that fatal madness—she with those delicate feet of hers, never touching the earth, gliding over… — Homer Copy Share Image
“Scepticism is as much the result of knowledge, as knowledge is of scepticism. To be content with what we at present know, is, for… — Homer Copy Share Image
“With that the dream departed, leaving him there, his heart racing with hopes that would not come to pass. He thought he would take… — Homer Copy Share Image
Tell me, O Muse, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy. — Homer Copy Share Image
I have always known that writing fiction had little effect on the world; that if it did, young men would not have gone to… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
The Iliad is only great because all life is a battle, The Odyssey because all life is a journey, The Book of Job because… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Iliad is the private lives of people thrown into disorder by history. — Raymond Queneau Copy Share Image
And overpowered by memory Both men gave way to grief. Priam wept freely For man - killing Hector, throbbing, crouching Before Achilles' feet as… — Homer Copy Share Image
Every great literature has always been allegorical - allegorical of some view of the whole universe. The 'Iliad' is only great because all life… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Make room, Roman writers, make room for Greek writers; something greater than the Iliad is born. — Propertius Copy Share Image
Something greater than the Iliad now springs to birth -Nescio quid maius nascitur Iliade — Propertius Copy Share Image
“so evenly was strained their war and battle, till the moment when Zeus gave the greater renown to Hector, son of Priam, who was… — Homer Copy Share Image
He will find one English book and one only, where, as in the "Iliad" itself, perfect plainness of speech is allied with perfect nobleness;… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Stripped of its plot, the 'Iliad' is a scattering of names and biographies of ordinary soldiers: men who trip over their shields, lose their… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
Look at The Iliad, there's all this stuff about men loving children. The King of Sparta was the most brutal warrior of ancient Greece,… — Stephen Marche Copy Share Image