Lysistrata
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“My country's where my comfort's best secured.”
Source: Plutus
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“It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls”
“Chorus [of Birds]: Man is a truly cunning creature.”
Source: Birds
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“Lysistrata: To seize the treasury; no more money, no more war.”
Source: Lysistrata
“A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he must be ignorant and a rogue.”
Source: Clouds
Source: The Frogs
Source: The Knights
“Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.”
“Let each man exercise the art he knows.”
Source: Aristophanes
“Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.”
Source: The Frogs (Sparklesoup Classics)
“Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.”
“High thoughts must have high language.”
Source: Four comedies
“Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.”
“Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.”
“One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.”
Source: The Thesmophoriazusae
“There's no art where there's no fee.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Aristophanes (Illustrated)
Source: The Eleven Comedies - Complete
Source: The clouds: Translated by William Arrowsmith, with sketches by Thomas McClure
“There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!”
Source: The Eleven Comedies - Complete
Source: The Birds: Intended to Convey Some Notion of Its Effect as an Acted Play, and to Illustrate Certain Points of Dramatic Humour and Character Discoverable in the Original
Source: Plutus (Sparklesoup Classics)
“It often happens that less depends upon the valor of an army than the skill of the leader.”
“What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!”
Source: The Eleven Comedies
“Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Aristophanes (Illustrated)
“It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.”
Source: The Eleven Comedies
“The love of wine is a good man's failing.”
Source: The Wasps (Sparklesoup Classics)
Source: Aristophanes: Birds. Lysistrata. Women at the Thesmophoria
Source: Complete Plays of Aristophanes
“It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.”
Source: The wasps - The birds - The frogs - The Thesmophoriazusae - The Ecclesiazusae
Source: The Clouds
“Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.”
Source: Four Comedies: Lysistrata; The Acharnians; The Congresswomen, Translated by Douglass Parker. The Frogs, Translated by Richmond Lattimore
“You will never make the crab walk straight.”
Source: Peace
“A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country's good.”
Source: The Comedies of Aristophanes: Preface. The clouds. The wasps. The discat turned gentleman
Source: The Knights