Diogenes Quote by Jonathan Swift

Diogenes found more rest in his tub than Alexander on his throne.

— Francis Quarles

“He wanted her to be as well dressed as the richest lady in Ilhéus; fine clothes would erase her past and hide the stove…

— Jorge Amado

“Even the buckle, with the help of which the prehistoric Greek fastened his cloak, has been shown by a German scholar to imply an…

— A. H. SAYCE

“Diogenes, the Greek philosopher who founded the Cynical school, lived in a barrel.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

A great deal of the furniture of ancient tyranny is torn to rags; the rest is entirely out of fashion.

— Edmund Burke

“The idea that Aphrodite was simply a representation of carnal lust is the product of much later representations of her. In fact, the representation…

— Charles River Editors

Dior really was a savior. He almost single-handedly revived women's interest in clothes.

— Bill Blass

“She was, in fact, one of those people of exalted principles; one of those opinionated puritans, of which England produces so many; one of…

— Guy de Maupassant

“If it were not my purpose to combine barbarian things with things Hellenic, to traverse and civilize every continent, to search out the uttermost…

— Alexander the Great

“He stalked through the world as a god, for no earthly weapon could harm him, and to him a century was like an hour.…

— Robert E. Howard

“The chiseled beauty of his features, like an ancient greek coin.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“He who has perceived the material out of which the Promethean tragic writers prior to Euripides formed their heroes, and how remote from their…

— Friedrich Nietzsche