Quotes by Euripides

“Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.””

The Bacchae

“Pylades: I’ll take care of you.Orestes: It’s rotten work.Pylades: Not to me. Not if it’s you.””

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

Medea

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

“When one with honeyed words but evil mindPersuades the mob, great woes befall the state.””

Orestes

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

“The fiercest anger of all, the most incurable,Is that which rages in the place of dearest love.””

Medea and Other Plays

Euripides

Euripides was a prominent Greek tragedian from classical Athens, renowned for his innovative contributions to the genre of tragedy. He is one of the three great playwrights of ancient Greece whose wor...