Medea and Other Plays Quotes

“Anger,
The spring of all life's horror.

- Medea”
― Euripides, Medea and Other Plays

“Yes, I can endure guilt, however horrible; The laughter of my enemies I will not endure. Now”
― Euripides, Medea and Other Plays: Medea / Hecabe / Electra / Heracles

“There is no justice in the world's censorious eyes. They will not wait to learn a man's true character;
Though no wrong has been done them, one look - and they hate.

- Medea”
― Euripides, Medea and Other Plays

“What man’s not guilty? It’s taken you a long time to learn
That everybody loves himself more than his neighbour.”
― Euripides, Medea and Other Plays

“See, how strong love overwhelms us. See, how it wounds and destroys and yet when Aphrodite wants to soothe, nothing cures as love cures. So, my love, shoot me gently, barely break my skin with your terrible arrows.”
― Euripides, Medea and Other Plays

“Blood-guilty wretch”
― Euripides, Medea and Other Plays

“JASON: O children, what a wicked mother Fate gave you! MEDEA: O sons, your father’s treachery cost you your lives.”
― Euripides, Medea and Other Plays: Medea / Hecabe / Electra / Heracles

“Aegeus, my husband’s the most evil man alive.”
― Euripides, Medea and Other Plays: Medea / Hecabe / Electra / Heracles

“Because you suffer, why should you so arrogantly include all women in one general reproach?”
― Euripides, Medea and Other Plays