Find the perfect quote to float your boat. Shmoop breaks down key quotations from Troilus and Cressida.
Warfare Quotes
[...] From isles of Greece
The princes orgulous, their high blood chafed,
Have to the port of Athens sent their ships,
Fraught with the ministers and instruments
Of cruel war: sixty and nine, that...
Love Quotes
The Greeks are strong and skilful to their strength,
Fierce to their skill and to their fierceness valiant;
But I am weaker than a woman's tear,
Tamer than sleep, fonder than ignorance,
Less valian...
Principles Quotes
[...] Hector, whose patience
Is, as a virtue, fix'd, to-day was mov'd:
He chid Andromache and struck his armorer, (1.2.4-6)
Philosophical Viewpoints Quotes
Her bed is India; there she lies, a pearl:
Between our Ilium and where she resides,
Let it be call'd the wild and wandering flood,
Ourself the merchant, and this sailing Pandar
Our doubtful hope, o...
Politics (vs. Personal Life) Quotes
The ravish'd Helen, Menelaus' queen,
With wanton Paris sleeps; and that's the quarrel. (Prologue, 9-10)
Art and Culture Quotes
[...] and hither am I come
A prologue arm'd, but not in confidence
Of author's pen or actor's voice, but suited
In like conditions as our argument,
To tell you, fair beholders, (Prologue, 22-26)
Time Quotes
[...] our play
Leaps o'er the vaunt and firstlings of those broils
Beginning in the middle, starting thence away
To what may be digested in this play. (Prologue, 26-29)
Gender Quotes
AENEASHow now, Prince Troilus! wherefore not afield?TROILUSBecause not there: this woman's answer sorts,For womanish it is to be from thence. (1.1.104-106)