Achilles Quote by Milan Kundera

“Would he not say with Homer,. Better to be the poor servant of a poor master, and to endure anything, rather than think as…

— Plato

Themistocles being asked whether he would rather be Achilles or Homer, said, "Which would you rather be, a conqueror in the Olympic games, or…

— Plutarch

“Homer would scuttle up the side of my denim-clad leg (to this day, there’s nothing he loves climbing so much as a pair of…

— Gwen Cooper

“Achilles weeps. He cradles me, and will not eat, nor speak a word other than my name.”

— Madeline Miller

“Achilles acted as if he had already won, and because the other kids followed him, he had.”

— Orson Scott Card

Achilles exists only through Homer . Take away the art of writing from this world , and you will probably take away its glory .

— François-René de Chateaubriand

“But Homer's words are as costly and admirable to Homer, as Agamemnon's victories are to Agamemnon”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Wrath of Achilles had probably been an epic subject for generations when Homer found it, and the germ of its meaning, the conflict…

— Cedric H Whitman

“With him died a story That will not be retold: How, forsaking glory, Achilles grows old While Hector dusts his trophies Behind high walls-…

— R.S. Gwynn

“There are not many mediums whose Dantes and Homers one can ring up and talk to. With games, one can.”

— Tom Bissell

“With Cosette’s garter, Homer would make the Iliad. He would put into his poem an old babbler like me, and he would call him…

— Victor Hugo

“He wanted to take Homer Wells in his arms, and hug him, and kiss him, but he could only hope that Homer understood how…

— John Irving