Helen of troy Quote by Sahndra Fon Dufe

“But she’s only a woman!” The watch captain shook his head again. “So was Helen of Troy, sir. Look what she started.”

— Ruth Downie

“Beautiful women have a following all their own. If that sounds misogynistic, I’m sorry, that’s the way the world works. Homer said the Greeks…

— Yudhanjaya Wijeratne

“Helen of Troy, Venus rising from the sea, the females of the kardashian tribe.”

— Kallista Dane

“Homer lets us each make our own Helen; and so she is immortal.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“Do all in Troy despise me?' 'That is a strong word, my sweet.' The young Queen of Sparta pulled away from her lover's arms.…

— Janell Rhiannon

“Why, what could she have done, being what she is? Was there another Troy for her to burn?”

— William Butler Yeats

“It was The Aeneid that had included the fascinating story of the Trojan Horse. Why anyone would accept a gift from a departing, defeated…

— Kasey Michaels

“Some call ships, infantry or horsemen The greatest beauty earth can offer; I say it is whatever a person Most lusts after. Showing you…

— Sappho

“She had impeccable beauty — the sort of woman who men started wars over. Wars where thousands died.”

— Armada West

“I had only to remember that centuries before, men fell in battle for the daughter of Troy, that passions carried greater weight than decorum.…

— Brenna Yovanoff

“She was disappointed in herself for being the typical girl. She never wants to be that girl. That girl…is an emotional wreck. That girl…was…

— Iesha S. Walker

“Why, pray, must the Argives needs fight the Trojans? What made the son of Atreus gather the host and bring them? Was it not…

— Homer