Alexander Quotes

Silly of me not to have realized it. One often finds Greek temples lurking in the woods of English estates. Sneaky things, temples.

~ Victoria Alexander

It wasn't as if she was terrified of heights, she simply preferred to be closer to solid ground, where words like plummet and plunge did not linger in her mind.

~ Victoria Alexander

In my opinion, at least, the splendid achievements of Alexander are the clearest possible proof that neither strength of body, nor noble blood, nor success in war even greater than Alexander's own... that none of these things, I say, can make a man happy, unless he can win one more victory in addition to those the world thinks so great---the victory over himself.

~ Arrian

For forms of Government let fools contest. Whate'er is best administered is best.

~ Alexander Pope

Raven: Don't you notice that?Alexander: Notice what?Raven: The girls?Alexander: What girls?Raven: Hello! You were worried about bringing me to a bar when all along I should have been concerned about bringing you.Alexander: I don't know what you are talking about.Raven: The girls are drooling all over you!Alexander: Well, there is only one girl I want to be with and she's right here.

~ Ellen Schreiber

Raven: You don't have a hot date, do you?Alexander: Yes. I do, as a matter of fact.Raven: You do?Alexander: Yes, and it is almost ending.

~ Ellen Schreiber

Princes always are always happy to see developing among their subjects the taste for agreeable arts and for superfluities which do not result in the export of money. For quite apart from the fact that with these they nourish that spiritual pettiness so appropriate for servitude, they know very well that all the needs which people give themselves are so many chains binding them. When Alexander wished to keep the Ichthyophagi dependent on him, he forced them to abandon fishing and to nourish themselves on foods common to other people. And no one has been able to subjugate the savages in America, who go around quite naked and live only from what their hunting provides. In fact, what yoke could be imposed on men who have no need of anything?

~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau

He stood between death and life as between night and morning, and thought with a soaring rapture, 'I am not afraid.

~ Mary Renault