Quotes about Mythology

These my sky-robes, spun out of Iris' woof.

Not that fair field of Enna, where proserpin gathering flowers herself a fairer flower by gloomy dis was gathered, which cost Ceres all that pain to seek her through the world.

What never yet was heard in tale or song, from old or modern bard, in hall or bower.

The myth of redemptive violence - Caesar, peace, and victory - is in people's bones so deeply, we aren't even aware of it. You crush the opposition that's how we bring peace.

A society, most of whose members spend a great part of their time, not on the spot, not here and now and in the calculable future, but somewhere else, in the irrelevant other worlds of sport and soap opera, of mythology and metaphysical fantasy, will find it hard to resist the encroachments of those who would manipulate and control it.

The great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world.

I don't understand why Cupid was chosen to represent Valentine's Day. When I think about romance, the last thing on my mind is a short, chubby toddler coming at me with a weapon.

This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.

There were giants in the earth in those days… mighty men which were of old, men of renown.

Refuse profane and old wives' fables.

The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in. He must reflect what is projected upon him.

How persistent it is, this demand that our gods be perfect. The Greeks were much more reasonable about such things.