Quotes of: Iliad Keyword

It's hard to write a war story without thinking about the 'Iliad.' Because the 'Iliad' knows everything about war.

Chang-Rae Lee

Toute grande oeuvre est soit une Iliade soit une Odysée, les odysées étant beaucoup plus nombreuse que les iliades: le , , , , et naturellement (où l'on reconnaît d'ailleurs l'influence directe de ) sont des odysées, c'est-à-dire des récits d...

Raymond Queneau

For all the import and message of 'The Iliad,' it's ultimately a story that's meant to be heard, and the person hearing 'The Iliad' determines what it means.

Denis O'Hare

Never on me let such wrath lay hold, as the wrath you cherish, you whose valor causes harm!

Homer: Iliad II, Books 13-24

A very great Iliad... concerns the creation of a nation.

Raymond Queneau

Why can't death - if we must have it - be always glorious, as in 'The Iliad?'

P. J. O'Rourke

The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.

Aldous Huxley

The Iliad is the private lives of people thrown into disorder by history.

Raymond Queneau

It doesn't seem to me that anyone has discovered much that's new since the Iliad or the Odyssey.

Raymond Queneau

Beauty! Terrible Beauty! A deathless Goddess-- so she strikes our eyes!

The Iliad

The sort of words a man says is the sort he hears in return.

The Iliad

One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey.

Raymond Queneau

There is nothing alive more agonized than man / of all that breathe and crawl across the earth.

The Iliad

Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.

The Iliad

…but there they lay, sprawled across the field, craved far more by the vultures than by wives.

The Iliad

I suppose it's true that most great television, literature, and other forms of high art (and basic cable) benefit from a little hindsight. 'M.A.S.H.' comes to mind. So does 'The Iliad.'

Kevin Bleyer

…There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible—magic to make the sanest man go mad.

The Iliad

You, you insolent brazen bitch—you really dare to shake that monstrous spear in Father’s face?

The Iliad

...like that star of the waning summer who beyond all stars rises bathed in the ocean stream to glitter in brilliance.

The Iliad

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 body of a woman.

Rooftop Soliloquy

A Kindle returns us to the inconvenience of the scroll, except with batteries and electronic glitches. It's as handy as bringing Homer along to recite the 'Iliad' while playing a lyre.

P. J. O'Rourke