Conquer Quote by Richard Kadrey

Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?

— Nikolai Gogol

Alexander, of whom men tell many legends, lived by his own. Achilles must have Patroklos. He might love his Briseis; but Patroklos was the…

— Mary Renault

“Alexander the Great slept with 'The Iliad' beneath his pillow. During the waning moon, I cradle Homer’s 'Odyssey' as if it were the sweet…

— Roman Payne

“They say Alexander the Great slept with 'The Iliad' beneath his pillow. Though I have never led an army, I am a wanderer. During…

— Roman Payne

“His sudden and utterly overwhelming panic was over almost before it began; but not quickly enough. In the midst of his brief yet total…

— Colleen McCullough

“In 63 B.C., a young Roman quaestor in Spain approached a statue of Alexander to pay homage to the commander, who had never lost…

— Michael Rank

What in the name of Zeus's testicles?

— Darynda Jones

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

— William Bolitho

“When Alexander The Great was alive the world was not big enough to contain his ambition but while Alexander chafed at the confines of…

— Juvenal

Zeus most glorious and most great, Thundercloud, throned in the heavens! Let not the sun go down and the darkness come, until I cast…

— Homer

“Alexander the Great slept with 'The Iliad' beneath his pillow. Though I’ve never led an army, I am a wanderer. I cradle 'The Odyssey'…

— Roman Payne

The sordid meal of the Cynics contributed neither to their tranquillity nor to their modesty. Pride went with Diogenes into his tub; and there…

— Henry Home, Lord Kames