“We have been Trojans: Troy has been:
She sat, but sits no more, a queen.”

— John Conington

Source: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book II, p. 53

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 "We have been Trojans: Troy has been: She sat, but sits no more, a queen." by John Conington?

John Conington photo

John Conington85

British classical scholar 1825–1869

Related quotes

“When he loved his bride it was not a queen he loved, but rather the girl as she might have been if she had not been destroyed in her childhood.”

Orson Scott Card Hart's Hope

Hart's Hope (1983)

“She was the stone-faced queen, then and ever after. She had needed the mask to rule, and she had been glad to have it. She wondered if Eugenides was glad of his.”

Megan Whalen Turner The Queen of Attolia

Source: The Queen of Attolia

“I had a heart then
But the queen has been overthrown”

Ellie Goulding (1986) English singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist

Song lyric of Bright Lights (2010), "Lights", written by Goulding, Ash Howes, and Richard Stannard

“Government power has been the unavoidable constant in life. Government decrees and the people obey, but not here. We have no king or queen, we have no dictator, we the people constrain government.”

Ted Cruz (1970) American politician

2010s, Speech at the Republican National Convention (July 20, 2016)

“All I can say is this: either every single member of that army had been promised a blow job of the Gods as soon as they got their queen back, or the Greeks invented brainwashing. (On the Greeks and the Trojan War, 31 May 2004)”

Ben Croshaw (1983) English video game journalist

Fully Ramblomatic

“In the afternoon, the king and queen sat to hear the business of their kingdom. At least, the queen sat to hear the business; Costis was still not sure what the king was doing.”

Megan Whalen Turner The King of Attolia

Source: The King of Attolia

“There has been a comparatively greater proportion of good queens, than of good kings.”

Sarah Grimké (1792–1873) American abolitionist

Letter 9 (August 25, 1837).
Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman (1837)

“These are rotten, so you’re the Queen
Of all are living, or have been.”

John Millington Synge (1871–1909) Irish playwright, poet, prose writer, and collector of folklore

Queens

“This twilight, Lothaire was holding court.
He sat upon his gilded throne, decorated
with gold-dipped skulls. His design. If he’d had a queen, her throne would have been similar. Of course, her skulls would be daintier.”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Lothaire

“I will tell you that there have been no failures in my life. I don't want to sound like some metaphysical queen, but there have been no failures. There have been some tremendous lessons.”

Oprah Winfrey (1954) American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist

Related topics

Queen