Troy Quotes

“Zeus sighed heavily. 'I wish, all those years ago, Prometheus hadn't persuaded me to make mankind,' he said. 'I knew it was a mistake.”
― Stephen Fry, Troy

“We achieve immortality not through ambrosia and ichor but through history and reputation. Through statues and epic song.”
― stephen fry, Troy

“The moment when flowers and fruits are at their fullest and ripest is the moment that precedes their fall, their decay, their rot, their death.”
― Stephen Fry, Troy

“His reward is the eternal fame that is both priceless and worthless”
― Stephen Fry, Troy

“The action is played out on the golden horizon between reality and legend, the beguiling penumbra where fable and fact coexist.”
― Stephen Fry, Troy

“How strange is our mortal zest for fame. Perhaps it is the only way humans can be gods. We achieve immortality not through ambrosia and ichor but through history and reputation. Through statues and epic song”
― Stephen Fry, Troy

“I know,” said Helen. “Like all sacred and truly precious objects it is very plain. Only profane things are beautiful.”
― Stephen Fry, Troy: The Greek Myths Reimagined

“Forget him. What is treasure? Or Briseis, or honor, or anything? Next to the life of the one I loved best and dearest? My beloved, my only Patroclus.”
― Stephen Fry, Troy

“You may be gold, and we poor ordinary men may be of bronze, but ask any solier out there which metal they'd rather have for a sword blae or a spearpoint”
― Stephen Fry, Troy

“The rescue of Aethra and the sparing of Antenor - can be registered as the only lights of clemency an honour that shone during that night of unnameable atrocities”
― Stephen Fry, Troy

“We recognize that if we had ever encountered the real demon demigod Achilles, we woul have feared and dreaded him, hated his temper, despised his pride and been repelled by his savagery. But we know too that we could not have helped loving him.”
― Stephen Fry, Troy

“Some are born with a beauty that seems to turn people mad. Fortunately there are very few of us like that, but our power can be unsettling and even eruptive.”
― Stephen Fry, Troy: The Greek Myths Reimagined

“They say a fool and his gold are soon parted, but they ought to say too that those who refuse ever to be parted from gold are the greatest fools of all.”
― Stephen Fry, Troy: The Greek Myths Reimagined

“You think you killed me, Hector,’ Patroclus gasped. ‘But it took the god Apollo to do that. Euphorbus was next. You, famous Hector, noble Hector, were just the third. All you did is finish me off. I die knowing that your fate will be settled by one greater than any … by my Achilles.”
― Stephen Fry, Troy

“Although Achilles wore no armour, the mere sight of him, standing high on the embankment, bathed in an unearthly light and uttering the most piercing and monumental battle-cry was enough to scatter the Trojans. Three times Achilles yelled his terrible war cry. The Trojans and even their horses were filled with fear. In triumph the Achaeans bore the body of Patroclus back to their camp.”
― Stephen Fry, Troy

“Hear me proclaim this, you loathsome turd from the ass of Typhon.”
― Stephen Fry, Troy: The Greek Myths Reimagined

“Given the intervention of the gods and other magical and supernatural happenings, I have—as mentioned in the Introduction that you so wisely skipped—thought it best to tell the story of the war and its aftermath without attempting to dot every sequential iota or cross every chronological tau.”
― Stephen Fry, Troy: The Greek Myths Reimagined

“Even as he breathed his last breath he killed more Trojans.
Terrified by the sight of a mortally wounded man with such implacable strength and will, most held back, unsure that such a man could really die.”
― Stephen Fry, Troy

“For nine years the Trojan War was more plunder than thunder”
― Stephen Fry, Troy

“The Olympians enjoy the mauling and brawling of their playthings, their little human pets”
― Stephen Fry, Troy

“How strange is our mortal zest for fame. Perhaps it is the only way humans can be gods. We achieve immortality not through ambrosia and ichor but through history and reputation.”
― Stephen Fry, Troy: The Greek Myths Reimagined

“Agamemnon heaved the gusty sigh of one much put upon by the weight of office, the malice of chance, and the endless incompetence of underlings.”
― Stephen Fry, Troy: The Greek Myths Reimagined

“We know how wars that each side believed would soon be decided can stretch out over months and years. The Greeks and Trojans were perhaps the first to discover this unhappy truth.”
― Stephen Fry, Troy: The Greek Myths Reimagined

“He can hardly dare to suggest anything if you thunder at him like that,” said Odysseus. “Either you want him to speak or you want to terrify him into silence. You can’t have both.”
― Stephen Fry, Troy: The Greek Myths Reimagined

“If this story, the story of Troy, has a meaning or a moral, it is the old, simple lesson that actions have consequences. What Tantalus did, exacerbated by what Pelops did . . . the actions of these two caused a doom to be laid on what was to be the most important royal house of Greece.”
― Stephen Fry, Troy: The Greek Myths Reimagined

“If that she-bear had eaten the baby it found o n the mountaintop instead of nursing it, how different the world would now have been”
― Stephen Fry, Troy

“Eğer ona bu şekilde esip gürlerseniz, herhangi bir şeye cüret etmesine imkân yok" demişti Odysseus. "Ondan ya konuşmasını istemelisiniz ya da onu korkutup sesini kesmesini. İkisini birden isteyemezsiniz.”
― Stephen Fry, Troy

“What did we see last night?” he asked. “It wasn’t warfare. It was madness. Deception, savagery, dishonor, and disgrace. What have the mortals become?” “Terrible, isn’t it? Who do they think they are—gods?” “There’s a time for humor, Hermes, and this isn’t it,” said Apollo.”
― Stephen Fry, Troy: The Greek Myths Reimagined

“We’ll spare your life, I promise,” hissed Odysseus. “Only speak quickly. And quietly. I have shaky hands and this blade against your throat might just slip and find its way into your windpipe if you aren’t quick, clear, and concise.”
― Stephen Fry, Troy: The Greek Myths Reimagined

“Heracles listened to Laomedon’s self-pitying and largely fabricated version of the events leading up to Hesione’s sacrifice.”
― Stephen Fry, Troy: The Greek Myths Reimagined