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Top 30 Catullus Quotes (2025 Update)

Catullus Quote: “Odi et amo. quare id faciam, fortasse requiris? nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior.”

1. “Odi et amo. quare id faciam, fortasse requiris? nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior.”

Catullus Quote: “I hate and I love, and who can tell me why?”

2. “I hate and I love, and who can tell me why?”

Catullus Quote: “Better a sparrow, living or dead, than no birdsong at all.”

3. “Better a sparrow, living or dead, than no birdsong at all.”

Catullus Quote: “I hate and I love. And if you ask me how, I do not know: I only feel it, and I am torn in two.”

4. “I hate and I love. And if you ask me how, I do not know: I only feel it, and I am torn in two.”

Catullus Quote: “It is difficult to suddenly give up a long love. Difficile est longum subito deponere amorem.”

5. “It is difficult to suddenly give up a long love. Difficile est longum subito deponere amorem.”

Catullus Quote: “I hate and love. You ask, perhaps, how can that be? I know not, but I feel the agony.”

6. “I hate and love. You ask, perhaps, how can that be? I know not, but I feel the agony.”

Catullus Quote: “Let us live, my Lesbia, and let us love. Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus.”

7. “Let us live, my Lesbia, and let us love. Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus.”

Catullus Quote: “Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred, then a thousand more.”

8. “Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred, then a thousand more.”

Catullus Quote: “Pedicabo ego vos et irrumabo.”

9. “Pedicabo ego vos et irrumabo.”

Catullus Quote: “I can imagine no greater misfortune for a cultured people than to see in the hands of the rulers not only the civil, but also the religious power.”

10. “I can imagine no greater misfortune for a cultured people than to see in the hands of the rulers not only the civil, but also the religious power.”

Catullus Quote: “What a woman says to an eager lover, write it on running water, write it on air.”

11. “What a woman says to an eager lover, write it on running water, write it on air.”

Catullus Quote: “Oh, this age! How tasteless and ill bred it is!”

12. “Oh, this age! How tasteless and ill bred it is!”

Catullus Quote: “There is nothing more foolish than a foolish laugh. Risu inepto res ineptior nulla est.”

13. “There is nothing more foolish than a foolish laugh. Risu inepto res ineptior nulla est.”

Catullus Quote: “It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.”

14. “It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.”

Catullus Quote: “Ah, what is more blessed than to put cares away, when the mind lays by its burden, and tired with labor of far travel we have come to our own home and rest on the couch we longed for? This it is which alone is worth all these toils.”

15. “Ah, what is more blessed than to put cares away, when the mind lays by its burden, and tired with labor of far travel we have come to our own home and rest on the couch we longed for? This it is which alone is worth all these toils.”

Catullus Quote: “But you shall not escape my iambics.”

16. “But you shall not escape my iambics.”

Catullus Quote: “Every one has his faults: but we do not see the wallet on our own backs.”

17. “Every one has his faults: but we do not see the wallet on our own backs.”

Catullus Quote: “Brother, hello and good-bye. Frater, ave atque vale.”

18. “Brother, hello and good-bye. Frater, ave atque vale.”

Catullus Quote: “I write of youth, of love, and have access by these to sing of cleanly wantonness.”

19. “I write of youth, of love, and have access by these to sing of cleanly wantonness.”

Catullus Quote: “My mind’s sunk so low, Claudia, because of you, wrecked itself on your account so bad already, that I couldn’t like you if you were the best of women, -or stop loving you, no matter what you do.”

20. “My mind’s sunk so low, Claudia, because of you, wrecked itself on your account so bad already, that I couldn’t like you if you were the best of women, -or stop loving you, no matter what you do.”

Catullus Quote: “Now Spring restores the balmy heat, now Zephyr’s sweet breezes calm the rage of the equinoctial sky.”

21. “Now Spring restores the balmy heat, now Zephyr’s sweet breezes calm the rage of the equinoctial sky.”

Catullus Quote: “Away with you, water, destruction of wine!”

22. “Away with you, water, destruction of wine!”

Catullus Quote: “For the godly poet must be chaste himself, but there is no need for his verses to be so.”

23. “For the godly poet must be chaste himself, but there is no need for his verses to be so.”

Catullus Quote: “Nothing is more silly than silly laughter.”

24. “Nothing is more silly than silly laughter.”

Catullus Quote: “The vows that woman makes to her fond lover are only fit to be written on air or on the swiftly passing stream.”

25. “The vows that woman makes to her fond lover are only fit to be written on air or on the swiftly passing stream.”

Catullus Quote: “Give up wanting to deserve any thanks from anyone, or thinking anybody can be grateful.”

26. “Give up wanting to deserve any thanks from anyone, or thinking anybody can be grateful.”

Catullus Quote: “So a maiden, while she remains untouched, remains dear to her own; but when she has lost her chaste flower with sullied body, she remains neither lovely to boys nor dear to girls.”

27. “So a maiden, while she remains untouched, remains dear to her own; but when she has lost her chaste flower with sullied body, she remains neither lovely to boys nor dear to girls.”

Catullus Quote: “We see not our own backs.”

28. “We see not our own backs.”

Catullus Quote: “To whom do I give my new elegant little book? Cui dono lepidum novum libellum?”

29. “To whom do I give my new elegant little book? Cui dono lepidum novum libellum?”

Catullus Quote: “The confounding of all right and wrong, in wild fury, has averted from us the gracious favor of the gods.”

30. “The confounding of all right and wrong, in wild fury, has averted from us the gracious favor of the gods.”

Catullus Quote: “My lady’s sparrow is dead, the sparrow which was my lady’s delight.”

31. “My lady’s sparrow is dead, the sparrow which was my lady’s delight.”

Catullus Quote: “Vivamus atque amemus.”

32. “Vivamus atque amemus.”

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