Helen Of Troy Quotes

• I think Helen of Troy must have been pretty hot. She got two countries going crazy for 10 years over her.

  Colin Quinn

  Country, Crazy, Thinking

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• Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, and burnt the topless towers of Ileum?

  Christopher Marlowe

  Ships, Faces, Towers

  Doctor Faustus act 5, sc. 1 (1604).

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• I will love you until the day they put me in the earth.

  Nalini Singh

  Love You, Earth, Glow In The Dark

  Nalini Singh (2012). “Tangle of Need: A Psy-Changeling Novel”, p.341, Penguin

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• I'll love you until the day after forever.

  Kami Garcia

  Love You, Forever With You, Cool Status

  Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl (2011). “Beautiful Chaos”, p.261, Hachette UK

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• She is older than the rocks among which she sits; like the vampire, she has been dead many times, and learned the secrets of the grave; and has been a diver in deep seas, and keeps their fallen day about her; and trafficked for strange webs with Eastern merchants, and, as Leda, was the mother of Helen of Troy, and, as Saint Anne, the mother of Mary; and all this has been to her but as the sound of lyres and flutes, and lives only in the delicacy with which it has molded the changing lineaments, and tinged the eyelids and the hands.

  Walter Pater

  Mother, Rocks, Hands

  Studies in the History of the Renaissance "Leonardo da Vinci" (1873)

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• Elizabeth Taylor is pre-feminist woman. This is the source of her continuing greatness and relevance. She wields the sexual power that feminism cannot explain and has tried to destroy. Through stars like Taylor, we sense the world-disordering impact of legendary women like Delilah, Salome, and Helen of Troy. Feminism has tried to dismiss the femme fatale as a misogynist libel, a hoary clich?. But the femme fatale expresses women's ancient and eternal control of the sexual realm. The specter of the femme fatale stalks all men's relations with women.

  Camille Paglia

  Stars, Power, Greatness

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.12, Vintage

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• Passing beauties are only the fugitive reflections of the eternal. All beauty alters and all life melts away; in short, everything passes with marvelous rapidity; beautiful Helen of Troy has become a toothless skull, then a handful of dust, then nothing.

  Eliphas Levi

  Beauty, Beautiful, Reflection

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• If Helen of Troy could have been seen eating peppermints out of a paper bag, it is highly probable that her admirers would have been an entirely different class.It is the thing you are found doing while the horde looks on that you shall be loved for - or ignored.

  Djuna Barnes

  Class, Paper, Peppermint

  Djuna Barnes (1996). “Collected Stories”, Sun and Moon Press

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• Helen of Troy, a hooker from Upstate New York. Never got a dinner!

  Red Buttons

  New York, Dinner, Helen

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