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Famous Aristophanes Quotes
Source: The wasps - The birds - The frogs - The Thesmophoriazusae - The Ecclesiazusae
Source: Aristophanes with the English translation of Benjamin Bickley Rogers
“Shall I crack any of those old jokes, master, At which the audience never fail to laugh?”
Source: The Birds and Other Plays: Easyread Comfort Edition
“Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.”
Source: The wasps: Translated by Douglass Parker
“You cannot make a crab walk straight.”
Source: Aristophanes 1: Clouds, Wasps, Birds
“To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.”
Source: Lysistrata: an English version by Dudley Fitts
“Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?”
“Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.”