Aristophanic Quotes & Sayings

I suppose I should have laughed even more uproariously at what happened next; as a newly anointed convert to the Old Comedy, I should have bounded to my feet, cried aloud, "Hallelujah!" and sung the praises of He Who Created Us, He Who Formed Us from the Mud, the One and Only Comic Almighty, OUR SOVEREIGN REDEEMER ARISTOPHANES, but for reasons all too profane (total mental paralysis) I could only gape at the sight of nothing less than the highly entertaining Aristophanic erection that Pipik had produced ... — Philip Roth

and it was Thalia — Rick Riordan

Ambition, the soldier's virtue, rather makes choice of loss, than gain which darkens him. — William Shakespeare

If you throw an innocent man in prison, he'll start to doubt that he's indeed innocent. — Luca Rossi

What made Guantanamo such a travesty - and what still makes it such - is that it is a system of indefinite detention whereby human beings are put in cages for years and years without ever being charged with a crime. — Glenn Greenwald

It doesn't help that your idiom is all at once playful, esoteric, and, at times, bemusing. — Meghan Ciana Doidge

Make no mistake in denying it ... magic is real. It happens when you touch her hand for the first time and your palms mysteriously sweat, it transpires within those sustained seconds just before your lips touches hers your heart miraculously races, and it occurs when you cross paths with someone you never met or knew, but have always waited for and instantly know. — Carl Henegan

Imagine who she would be if we unleashed her onto the world. I think she would rip the breath from all of us. — Melina Marchetta

Young people are caught up in whatever appears to be the most bizarre. They look for truth and settle for folly. False religions and the occult are clever in reaching seekers who want to experience a rush of any kind. — Billy Graham

I became a feminist activist propelled in part by outrage and despair, and a stubborn determination to shape a life, and create a literature, that was not a lie. — Dorothy Allison