Top 200 Virgil Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “I shudder when relating it.”

— Virgil

202. “Such were my wild words, for madness had mastered my judgement and gained complete control.”

— Virgil

203. “Ah, piteous boy, Fortune came smiling; was it in jealousy that she then cruelly denied you to me.”

— Virgil

204. “If there is any power of righteousness in Heaven, you will drink to the dregs the cup of punishment amid sea rocks and as you suffer cry “Dido” againa and again. Though far, yet I shall be near, haunting you with flames of blackest pitch. And when death’s chill has parted my body from its breath, wherever you go my spectre will be there,. You will have your punishment, you villain. And I shall hear, the news will reach me deep in the world of death.”

— Virgil

205. “Gods whose dominion is over the Souls, Shades without sound, Void, and you, Burning River, and you, broad Spaces voiceless beneath the Night, may I remain sinless in telling what has been told to me, and, by your divine assent, reveal truth sunk in depths of earth and gloom.”

— Virgil

206. “Et iam prima novo spargebat lumine terras.”

— Virgil

207. “O Achates, where in the world is there a country, or any place in it, unreached by our suffering? Look; there is Priam. Even here high merit has its due; there is pity for a world’s distress, and a sympathy for short lived humanity.”

— Virgil

208. “Decked in the spoils you stripped from one I loved – escape my clutches? Never – Pallas strikes this blow, Pallas sacrifices you now, makes you pay the price with your own guilty blood!”

— Virgil

209. “To what crime do you not drive the hearts of men, accursed hunger for gold?”

— Virgil

210. “Yo temo al Griego, aunque presente dones.”

— Virgil

211. “A joy it will be one day, perhaps, to remember even this.”

— Virgil

212. “We have hearts valiant in war, we have spirit, and a manhood which has proved itself by deed.”

— Virgil

213. “A festive din now rose and echoed through the palace halls. Lighted lamps hung from the coffered ceiling rich with gold leaf, and torches with high flames prevailed over the night.”

— Virgil

214. “Each man has his day, and the time of life is brief for all, and never comes again.”

— Virgil

215. “Hic pietatis honos?”

— Virgil

216. “Ah, Palinurus, you were too trustful of the calm sky and sea. So you will lie, a shroudless form, on an unknown strand.”

— Virgil

217. “Now when these souls have trodden the full circle of a thousand years, God call’s all of them forth in long procession to the Lethe River, and this he does so that when they again visit the sky’s vault they may be without memory, and a wish to re-enter bodily life may dawn.”

— Virgil

218. “Sic nos in sceptra reponis?”

— Virgil

219. “Well, the day has come when a woman’s weapons prove your daydreams wrong! Still, you carry no mean fame to your fathers’ shades – just tell them this: You died by Camilla’s spear!”

— Virgil

220. “Absumptae in Teucros vires caelique marisque.”

— Virgil

221. “Quicquid id est, timeo Danaos et dona ferentis.”

— Virgil

222. “But of course – so Turnus can fetch his royal bride – our lives are cheap, scattered in piles across the field, unburied and unwept.”

— Virgil

223. “How fortunate were you, thrice fortunate and more, whose luck it was to die under the high walls of Troy before your parents’ eyes!”

— Virgil

224. “Some of us looked in awed wonder at that massive horse, the gift for Minerva, the never-wed, which was to be our destruction.”

— Virgil

225. “When, soon, they join in their happy wedding-bonds – and wedded let them be – in pacts of peace at last, never command the Latins, here on native soil, to exchange their age-old name, to become Trojans, called the kin of Teucer, alter their language, change their style of dress. Let Latium endure.”

— Virgil

226. “What good are prayers and shrines to a person mad with love?”

— Virgil

227. “It is for men to make wage war and make peace; for that task is theirs.”

— Virgil

228. “His looks, his words, they pierce her heart and cling – no peace, no rest for her body, love will give her none.”

— Virgil

229. “The one safety for the defeated is to have no hope of safety.”

— Virgil

230. “We, poor fools, spent this our last day decorating with festal greenery every temple in our town.”

— Virgil

231. “Paeoniis revocatum herbis et amore Dianae.”

— Virgil

232. “Quis furor iste novus?”

— Virgil

233. “When once thou shalt be able to now read the glories of heroes and thy father’s deeds, and to know virtue as she is, slowly the plain shall grow golden with the soft corn-spike, and the reddening grape trail from the wild briar, and hard oaks drip of honey.”

— Virgil

234. “En haec promissa fides est?”

— Virgil

235. “Sweet relics, sweet so long as God and Destiny allowed, now receive my life-breath, and set me free from this suffering. I have lived my life and finished the course which Fortune allotted me.”

— Virgil

236. “Believe one who hath proved it, how mightily he rises over his shield, in what a whirlwind he hurls his spear.”

— Virgil

237. “The friend of my heart.”

— Virgil