Euripides > Quotes

“Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.”
― Euripides, The Bacchae

“Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.”
― Euripides, Medea

“Come back. Even as a shadow, even as a dream.”
― Euripides

“When one with honeyed words but evil mind
Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.”
― Euripides, Orestes

“Anger exceeding limits causes fear and excessive kindness eliminates respect.”
― Euripides

“The fiercest anger of all, the most incurable,
Is that which rages in the place of dearest love.”
― Euripides, Medea and Other Plays

“Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.”
― Euripides

“Hate is a bottomless cup; I will pour and pour”
― Euripides, Medea

“One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.”
― Euripides

“Of all creatures that can feel and think,
we women are the worst treated things alive”
― Euripides, Medea

“This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.”
― Euripides, The Phoenician Women

“Let no one think of me that I am humble or weak or passive; let them understand I am of a different kind: dangerous to my enemies, loyal to my friends. To such a life glory belongs.”
― Euripides, Medea and Other Plays

“Cleverness is not wisdom.”
― Euripides, The Bacchae

“Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.”
― Euripides

“I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees.”
― Euripides

“When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.”
― Euripides

“The wisest men follow their own direction.”
― Euripides

“He is not a lover who does not love forever.”
― Euripides

“In case of dissension, never dare to judge till you've heard the other side.”
― Euripides, The Children of Herakles

“My love for you
was greater than my wisdom.”
― Euripides, Medea

“Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything.”
― Euripides

“Your very silence shows you agree.”
― Europides

“Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm; great good fortune comes to failure in the end. All is change; all yields its place and goes; to persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man. The coward despairs.”
― Euripides

“tell me how does it feel with my teeth in your heart!”
― Euripides, Medea

“I'd three times sooner go to war than suffer childbirth once.”
― Euripides, Medea

“Do not mistake the rule of force
for true power. Men are not shaped by force.”
― Euripides, The Bacchae

“It is a good thing to be rich and strong, but it is a better thing to be loved.”
― Euripides

“Arm yourself, my heart: the thing that you must do is fearful, yet inevitable.”
― Euripides, Medea and Other Plays

“I loathe a friend whose gratitude grows old, a friend who takes his friend's prosperity but will not voyage with him in his grief”
― Euripides

“Friends show their love in times of trouble.”
― Euripides