“Hard is the task, O Queen! that you impose,
To tear my bosom with reviving woes.”
Charles Symmons (1749–1826) Welsh poet
Book II, lines 3–4
The Æneis (1817)
“Ah, mighty Queen! you urge me to disclose,
And feel, once more, unutterable woes.”
Book II, line 3
The Æneid of Virgil (1740)
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English poet 1699–1748Related quotes
“Sorrow too deep to tell, your majesty,
You order me to feel and tell once more.”
Infandum, regina, jubes<!--iubes?--> renovare dolorem.
Infandum, regina, jubes renovare dolorem.
Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book II, Line 3 (tr. Robert Fitzgerald); these are the opening words of Aeneas's narrative about the fall of Troy, addressed to Queen Dido of Carthage.
“Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
This also appears in Lady Windermere's Fan (1892), Act II
The Critic as Artist (1891), Part II
Thomas Gray (1716–1771) English poet, historian
St. 2 <br class="br"> Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=odec (written 1742–1750)
Cassandra Clare The Mortal Instruments
Jace to Alec, pg. 138
The Mortal Instruments, City of Glass (2009)
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) eighteenth century English poet
Stanza 10; this extends upon the theme evident in the lines of Edmund Spenser in The Faerie Queene (1596), Book V, Canto ii, Stanza 42: "Who will not mercie unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?"
The Universal Prayer (1738)
Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer
Source: Married By Morning
“Failure? Do you remember what Queen Victoria once said? “Failure—the possibilities do not exist”.”
Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013) British stateswoman and politician
TV Interview for ITN (5 April 1982) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/104913 regarding the Falkland Islands <br class="br">First term as Prime Minister <br class="br">Context: I am not talking about failure, I am talking about my supreme confidence in the British fleet... superlative ships, excellent equipment, the most highly trained professional group of men, the most honourable and brave members of Her Majesty's Service. Failure? Do you remember what Queen Victoria once said? “Failure—the possibilities do not exist”. That is the way we must look at it, with all our professionalism, all our flair and every single bit of native cunning, every single bit of professionalism and all our equipment and we must go out calmly, quietly, to succeed.
