Agamemnon Quote by Horace

Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but, all unwept and unknown, are lost in the distant night, since they are without a divine poet…

— Horace

There are heroes and then there are legends, heroes get remembered but legends never die.

— Boney Kapoor

The story of Ulysses and Agamemnon and Menelaus, of Jesus, of the Good Knight of Chaucer, lives in every one of us.

— James Lee Burke

In every great novel, who is the hero all the time? Not any of the characters, but some unnamed and nameless flame behind them…

— D. H. Lawrence

Heroes get remembered, but legends never die.

— Anonymous

No hero is mortal till he dies.

— W. H. Auden

Such things and deeds as are not written down are covered with darkness, and given over to the sepulchre of oblivion.

— Ivan Bunin

“In which it is proved that, notwithstanding their names' ending in OS and IS, the heroes of the story which we are about to…

— Alexandre Dumas

To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality,…

— Charles Horton Cooley

There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the…

— Naguib Mahfouz

Without will, without individuals, there are no heroes. But neither are there villains. And the absence of villains is as prostrating, as soul-destroying, as…

— Gertrude Himmelfarb

“Even in terms of fiction, nothing in their lives became them like the leaving of it. King Fjolnir rose in the night to make…

— Gwyn Jones