“This and a great deal more like it I have had to put up with.”

—  Terence , Eunuchus

Act IV, scene 6, 8, line 746.
Eunuchus

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "This and a great deal more like it I have had to put up with." by Terence?
Terence photo
Terence 46
Roman comic playwright -185–-159 BC

Related quotes

Alexej von Jawlensky photo
Friedrich Nietzsche photo

“The day's length. If a man has a great deal to put in them, a day will have a hundred pockets.”

Section IX, "Man Alone with Himself" / aphorism 529
Human, All Too Human (1878), Helen Zimmern translation

Colm Tóibín photo

“I was brought up in a house where there was a great deal of silence.”

Colm Tóibín (1955) Irish novelist and writer

Colm Tóibín: writers and their families http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/feb/17/colm-toibin-how-i-killed-my-mother, The Guardian (17 February 2012)

Ernest Hemingway photo
Cassandra Clare photo
J.M.W. Turner photo

“He John Ruskin knows a great deal more about my pictures than I do; he puts things into my head, and points out meanings in them that I never intended.”

J.M.W. Turner (1775–1851) British Romantic landscape painter, water-colourist, and printmaker

Quote of Turner, c. 1840's; as cited by George Walter Thornbury, in The life of J.M.W. Turner, Volume II; Hurst and Blackett Publishers, London, 1862, p. 130
Turner did not appear to be pleased with Mr. Ruskin's superlative eulogies, according to Peter Cunningham
1821 - 1851

Ellen G. White photo

“I wish that we had much more of the Spirit of Christ and a great deal less self, and less of human opinions. If we err, let it be on the side of mercy rather than on the side of condemnation and harsh dealing”

Ellen G. White (1827–1915) American author and founder/leader of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church

Letter 16, 1887, also in Testimonies on Sexual Behavior, Adultery, and Divorce (1989) http://egwdatabase.whiteestate.org/nxt/gateway.dll/egw-comp/section00000.htm/book05997.htm/chapter06009.htm, p. 242

Letitia Elizabeth Landon photo

Related topics