Quotes about Euripides

My mother was accursed the night she bore me,and I am faint with envy of all the dead.

and Euripides, faulty though he may be in the general management of his subject, yet is felt to be the most tragic of the poets.

Apollo, your voice hymned a justice I could not see clear, but all too clear the anguish you caused, the bloodhaunted, homeless future you've doled out.

Dream not thou that force is power; Nor, if thou hast a thought, and that thought sour And sick, oh, dream not thought is wisdom!

Is love so small a pain for a woman?

Odes were the compositions in which he took most delight, and it was long before he liked his Epistles and Satires. He told me what he read solidly at Oxford was Greek; not the Grecian historians, but Homer and Euripides, and now and then a little Epigram; that the study of which he was the most fond was Metaphysicks, but he had not read much, even in that way.

The power that keeps cities of men together Is noble preservation of law.