Aristophanes Quotes

There is no beast, no rush of fire, like woman so untamed. She calmly goes her way where even panthe...

These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: Can't live with them, or with...

The truth is forced upon us very quickly by a foe.

Evil events from evil causes spring.

A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.

Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.

Let each man exercise the art he knows.

You cannot make a crab walk straight.

Open your mind before your mouth

It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls

Under every stone lurks a politician.

Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.

Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you mu...

Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right.

High thoughts must have high language.

Chorus of women: […] Oh! my good, gallant Lysistrata, and all my friends, be ever like a bundle of n...

Lysistrata: Oh, Calonicé, my heart is on fire; I blush for our sex. Men will have it we are tricky a...

Magistrate: What do you propose to do then, pray?Lysistrata: You ask me that! Why, we propose to adm...

Chorus of old men: How true the saying: 'Tis impossible to live with the baggages, impossible to liv...

MAGISTRATEDon't men grow old?LYSISTRATANot like women. When a man comes homeThough he's grey as grie...

Magistrate: May I die a thousand deaths ere I obey one who wears a veil!Lysistrata: If that's all th...

What can you answer? Now be careful, don’t arouse my spite, Or with my slipper I’ll take you napping...

Chorus of old men: If we give them the least hold over us, 'tis all up! their audacity will know no ...

Lysistrata: To seize the treasury; no more money, no more war.

[Y]ou [man] are fool enough, it seems, to dare to war with [woman=] me, when for your faithful ally ...

If it is necessary for us to do anything [in view of peace], direct us and architect.πρὸς τάδ’ ἡμῖν,...

Look at the orators in our republics; as long as they are poor, both state and people can only prais...

You [demagogues] are like the fishers for eels; in still waters they catch nothing, but if they thor...

To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.

Shrines! Shrines! Surely you don't believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof?

[Y]ou possess all the attributes of a demagogue; a screeching, horrible voice, a perverse, crossgrai...