Lib Quotes
  • Authors
  • Topics
  • Lists
  • Pictures
  • Resources
  • More about Statius

Statius Quotes

10 Sourced Quotes

    • Source
    • Report...
So does he strive to rescue your shade from the pyre and wages a mighty contest with Death, wearying the efforts of artists and seeking to love you in every material. But beauty created by toil of cunning hand is mortal.

Statius
    • Source
    • Report...
The crowd is at silent odds with the prince. As is the way of a populace, the man of the future is the favorite.

Statius
    • Source
    • Report...
Yet no stiff and frowning face was hers, no undue austerity in her manners, but gay and simple loyalty, charm blended with modesty.

Statius
    • Source
    • Report...
They wonder in silence and turn pale for the dubious thunderbolt.

Statius
    • Source
    • Report...
Blind counsels of the wicked! Crime cowardly ever!

Statius
    • Source
    • Report...
What the morrow's years might bring 'twas sin for man to know.

Statius
    • Source
    • Report...
Vast as the starry Serpent, that on high Tracks the clear ether, and divides the sky, And southward winding from the Northern Wain, Shoots to remoter spheres its glittering train.

Statius
    • Source
    • Report...
Whoever worships the gods in good faith, loves their priests too.

Statius
    • Source
    • Report...
Grief and mad wrath devoured his soul, and hope, heaviest of mortal cares when long deferred.

Statius
    • Source
    • Report...
Give time, a little delay; impulse is ever a bad servant.

Statius

Quote of the day

Our South Australian farmers left their holdings in the hands of their wives and children too young to take with them, but almost all of them returned to grow grain and produce to send to Victoria.
Catherine Helen Spence

Statius

Statius

Born: 40
Died: 96 (aged 56)
Bio: Publius Papinius Statius was a Roman poet of the 1st century AD. His surviving Latin poetry includes an epic in twelve books, the Thebaid; a collection of occasional poetry, the Silvae; and an unfinished epic, the Achilleid.
Known for:
  1. Thebaid
  2. Silvae
  3. Achilleid
  4. The Thebaid: Seven Against Thebes
  5. The Thebaid of Statius

WikipediaStatius on Wikipedia
WikisourceStatius works on Wikisource

Suggest an edit or a new quoteSuggest an edit or a new quote

Roman Poet Quotes
Poet Quotes
1st-century Poet Quotes

Related People

Virgil
Virgil
Roman Poet

Lucan
Lucan
Roman Poet

Silius Italicus
Silius Italicus
Roman Orator

Martial
Martial
Spanish Poet

Ennius
Ennius
Italian Poet

Featured Authors

Stephen HawkingMahatma GandhiVirgilAdam SmithC. S. LewisKatharine HepburnAnne FrankColetteWolfgang Amadeus MozartDemocritusDonald TrumpWilliam Ralph Inge

Lists

Predictions that didn't happen

Predictions that didn't happen

If it's on the Internet it must be true

If it's on the Internet it must be true

Remarkable Last Words (or Near-Last Words)

Remarkable Last Words (or Near-Last Words)

Picture Quotes

If you see what is right and fail to act on it, you lack courage.

Confucius

I have a heart with room for every joy.

Philip James Bailey

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive.

Eleanor Roosevelt

A great change in life is like a cold bath in winter — we all hesitate at the first plunge.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Popular Topics

lifelovenaturetimegodpowerhumanmindworkartheartthoughtmenday
Lib Quotes

100% Sourced Quotes.

Our motto is: Don't quote it if you can't source it.

Contact us

Social Media

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Twitter
  • Pinterest

Recent

Predictions that didn't happen

If it's on the Internet it must be true

Remarkable Last Words (or Near-Last Words)

Subscribe to our Newsletter:
Like us
on Facebook
Quote of the Day
JS and WordPress
Subscribe
to RSS Feeds
© 2022 LibQuotes
Terms of Use / Privacy Policy / About Us

Lib Quotes