Top 200 Virgil Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “Impotent fury rages powerless and to no purpose.”

— Virgil

152. “Their rage supplies them with weapons.”

— Virgil

153. “O tyrant love, to what do you not drive the hearts of men.”

— Virgil

154. “If I cannot bend the will of Heaven, I shall move hell.”

— Virgil

155. “Turnus was distraught with love and fixed his eyes on Lavinia.”

— Virgil

156. “Myself acquainted with misfortune, I learn to help the unfortunate.”

— Virgil

157. “Though far away, I will chase you with murky brands and, when chill death has severed soul and body, everywhere my shade shall haunt you.”

— Virgil

158. “In his deepest heart there surge tremendous shame and madness mixed with sorrow and love whipped on by frenzy and a courage aware of its own worth.”

— Virgil

159. “O you who have borne even heavier things, to these too, God will grant an end!”

— Virgil

160. “Yet here, this night, you might repose with me, On green leaves pillowed: apples ripe have I, Soft chestnuts, and of curdled milk enow. And, see, the farm-roof chimneys smoke afar, And from the hills the shadows lengthening fall!”

— Virgil

161. “If ye despise the human race, and mortal arms, yet remember that there is a God who is mindful of right and wrong.”

— Virgil

162. “Fury itself supplies arms.”

— Virgil

163. “The Britons are quite separated from all the world.”

— Virgil

164. “Those gods on whom our power hitherto depended have forsaken their altars and their shrines and gone forth from us; the city which you would rescue is already ablaze; and it is for us to plunge amid the spears and die. Nothing can save the conquered but the knowledge that they cannot now be saved.”

— Virgil

165. “Age steals away all things, even the mind.”

— Virgil

166. “Meanwhile Aeneas the True longed to allay her grief and dispel her sufferings with kind words. yet he remained obedient to the divine command, and with many a sigh, for he was shaken to the depths by the strength of his love, returned to his ships.”

— Virgil

167. “I too am a poet who has found some favour with the Muse. I too have written songs. I too have heard the shepherds call me bard. But I take it from them with a grain of salt: I have the feeling that I cannot yet compare with Varius or Cinna, but cackle like a goose among melodious swans.”

— Virgil

168. “Not being untutored in suffering, I learn to pity those in affliction.”

— Virgil

169. “Is there so much anger in the minds of the gods?”

— Virgil

170. “The wavering multitude is divided into opposite factions.”

— Virgil

171. “The seeds of life – fiery is their force, divine their birth, but they are weighed down by the bodies’ ills or dulled by earthly limbs and flesh that’s born for death.”

— Virgil

172. “Each of us finds the world of death fitted to himself.”

— Virgil

173. “Una salus uictis nullam sperare salutem.”

— Virgil

174. “Degeneres animos timor arguit:.”

— Virgil

175. “If one swain scorns you, you will soon find another.”

— Virgil

176. “Each man is led by his own liking.”

— Virgil

177. “No other evil we know is faster than Rumor, thriving on speed and becoming stronger by running. Small and timid at first, then borne on a light air, she flits over ground while hiding her head on a cloud-top.”

— Virgil

178. “Want of pluck shows want of blood.”

— Virgil

179. “Live, and prosper, for all your adventures are past. We are called onwards from destiny to destiny. For you, your rest is won.”

— Virgil

180. “Womankind Is ever a fickle and a changeful thing.”

— Virgil

181. “This is a tale of arms and of a man. Fated to be an exile, he was the first to sail from the land of Troy and reach Italy, at its Lavinian shore. He met many tribulations on his way both by land on on the ocean; high Heaven willed it, for Juno was ruthless and could not forget her anger.”

— Virgil

182. “Rumor starts as a timid thing, But soon it covers the earth, and its voices ring, While its feet walk the ground and its head is above the clouds.”

— Virgil

183. “His heart beat high for war and he blazed with an implacable fire which needed no kindling.”

— Virgil

184. “There may be no great honour in killing a woman; such a victory can bring no fame. But I shall have some credit for having stamped dead a mortal sin, and punished a wrong which cries out for justice; and it will be joy to have gutted my desire for the vengeance of the fire and satisfied the ashes of all that were ever dear to me.”

— Virgil

185. “But the Danaan princes and Agamemnon’s battalions, soon as they saw the man and his arms flashing amid the glom, trembled with mighty fear; some turn to flee, as of old they sought the ships; some raise a shout – faintly; the cry essayed mocks their gaping mouths.”

— Virgil

186. “Do the gods light this fire in our hearts or does each man’s mad desire become his god?”

— Virgil

187. “Who asks whether the enemy was defeated by strategy or valor?”

— Virgil

188. “Let not our proposal be disregarded on the score of our youth.”

— Virgil

189. “What a lot of work it was to found the Roman race.”

— Virgil

190. “Dux femina facit.”

— Virgil

191. “She prayed then to whatever power may care in comprehending justice for the grief of lovers bound unequally by love.”

— Virgil

192. “Each draws to his best-loved.”

— Virgil

193. “I am that poet who in times past made the light melody of pastoral poetry. In my next poem I left the woods for the adjacent farmlands, teaching them to obey even the most exacting tillers of the soil; and the farmers liked my work. But now I turn to the terrible strife of Mars.”

— Virgil

194. “The sky and the lands, the watery plains, the moon’s gleaming face, the Titanic Sun and the stars are all strengthened by Spirit working within them, and by Mind, which is blended into all the vast universe and pervades every part of it, enlivening the whole mass.”

— Virgil

195. “From my example learn to be just, and not to despise the gods.”

— Virgil

196. “Mothers of Latium! Hey! Hear me, each one of you, wherever you may be! If you still have any sympathy for poor Amata in your faithful hearts, or any prick of conscience for a mother’s claims, untie the bands around your hair and take to the wild rites with me!”

— Virgil

197. “Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.”

— Virgil

198. “There should be no strife with the vanquished or the dead.”

— Virgil

199. “Night reigned: all through the world tied bodies were harvesting tranquil slumber.”

— Virgil

200. “Here is the toil of that house, and the inextricable wandering.”

— Virgil