Notable/Famous Quotes from The Odyssey

“Tell me, O Muse, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy.”

“See now, how men lay blame upon us gods for what is after all nothing but their own folly.”

“This daughter of Atlas has got hold of poor unhappy Ulysses, and keeps trying by every kind of blandishment to make him forget his home, so that he is tired of life, and thinks of nothing but how he may once more see the smoke of his own chimneys.”

“She fooled us in this way for three years and we never found her out.”

“There is nothing better in this world than that man and wife should be of one mind in a house.”

“Let us give him such proof of our hospitality as he may reasonably expect.”

“My name is Noman; this is what my father and mother and my friends have always called me.”

“Pass these Sirens by, and stop your men’s ears with wax that none of them may hear.”

“As soon as he saw Ulysses standing there, he dropped his ears and wagged his tail, but he could not get close up to his master.”

“My husband used to set up twelve axes in the court, one in front of the other, like the stays upon which a ship is built; he would then go back from them and shoot an arrow through the whole twelve.”

“Then Minerva assumed the form and voice of Mentor, and presently made a covenant of peace between the two contending parties.”