Quotes by : Aristophanes

These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: Can't live with them, or without....

Magistrate: What do you propose to do then, pray?Lysistrata: You ask me that! Why, we propose to administer....

If it is necessary for us to do anything [in view of peace], direct us and architect.πρὸς τάδ’....

You cannot make a crab walk straight.

[Y]ou possess all the attributes of a demagogue; a screeching, horrible voice, a perverse, crossgrained....

Magistrate: May I die a thousand deaths ere I obey one who wears a veil!Lysistrata: If that's all that....

Chorus of old men: If we give them the least hold over us, 'tis all up! their audacity will know no bounds!....

What can you answer? Now be careful, don’t arouse my spite, Or with my slipper I’ll take you napping,faces....

The truth is forced upon us very quickly by a foe.

Lysistrata: Oh, Calonicé, my heart is on fire; I blush for our sex. Men will have it we are tricky and....