Quotes From "Medea" By Euripides

For in other ways a woman is full of fear, defenseless, dreads the sight of cold steel; but, when once she is wronged in the matter of love, no other soul can hold so many thoughts of blood. Euripides

O what will she do, a soul bitten into with wrong? Euripides

Not yet do you feel it. Wait for the future. Euripides

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

Or else I would have sung a songin response to what the male sex sings. For our lengthy past has much to sayabout men's lives as well as ours Euripides

I've known one thing for a long time: there's a role in the big machine even for someone who makes fun of it. Christa Wolf

Do not grieve so much for a husband lost that it wastes away your life. Euripides

A possession considered of little value up to now suddenly becomes precious to a person if another person desires it, don't you think? Christa Wolf

To me, a wicked man who is also eloquent seems the most guilty of them all. He'll cut your throat as bold as brass, because he can dress up murder in handsome words. Euripides

Gone is the trust to be placed in oaths; I cannot understand if the gods you swore by then no longer rule, or men live by new standards of what is right. Euripides

I'd three times sooner go to war than suffer childbirth once. Euripides

Mortal fate is hard. You'd best get used to it. Euripides

Old loves are dropped when new ones come Euripides

Not too little, not too much: there safety lies. Euripides

Who can stop grief's avalanche once it starts to roll. Euripides

In childbirth grief begins. Euripides

Better a humble heart, a lowly life. Untouched by greatness let me live - and live. Not too little, not too much: there safety lies. Euripides