Dido Quotes

“Ah, merciless Love, is there any length to which you cannot force the human heart to go?”
― Virgil, The Aeneid

“The signs of the old flame, I know them well.
I pray that the earth gape deep enough to take me down
or the almighty Father blast me with one bolt to the shades,
the pale, glimmering shades in hell, the pit of night,
before I dishonor you, my conscience, break your laws.”
― Virgil

“I recognize the vestiges of an old flame”
― Virgil

“Dido, heartbroken, decides to do what any operatic heroine would do at such a moment: sing an aria, then kill herself.”
― Robert Greenberg, How to Listen to and Understand Great Music

“Though far away, I will chase you with murky brands and, when chill death has severed soul and body, everywhere my shade shall haunt you.”
― Virgil, The Aeneid

“Horns and hounds awake the princely train;
and issue early through the city gate,
There more wakeful huntsmen ready wait,
with nets and darts beside swift horse, and spartan dogs.
Come the Tyrian peers and officers of state
for the slow queen in antechambers waits;
Her lofty courser in the court below
who his majestic rider seems to know,
proud of his purple trappings he paws the ground
and champs the golden bit to spread the foam around.
Queen Dido at length appears;
flowered simar with golden fringe adorned,
and at her back a golden quiver bore;
her flowing hair a golden caul restrains,
a golden clasp the Tyrian robe sustains.”
― Virgil, The Aeneid

“One speech in't I chiefly loved.
T'was Aeneas' tale to Dido; and thereabout of it especially when he speaks of Priam's slaughter.
If it live in your memory, begin at this line”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet