Achilles Quotes

Sing, O muse, of the rage of Achilles, son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans.

Achilles, without his heel, you wouldn't even know his name today.

All interesting heroes have an Achilles heel.

Most liberals think of civil liberties as their Achilles heel. It isn't.

What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture.

Anybody who has political ambition has an Achilles heel.

At Achilles tomb, O fortunate youth, to have found Homer as the herald of your glory!

You know, you can't see or touch and isn't embodied. But they were all fallible, the Gods. And they would kind of rise and fall. You know, they all, like Achilles, Icarus, you know, they all had their high points and their low points.

I ruptured my plantaris muscle. It runs through the calf and goes down the side of your achilles and stretches right to the heel.

Achilles absent was Achilles still!

For violence, like Achilles' lance, can heal the wounds it has inflicted.

Achilles only had an Achilles heel, I have an entire Achilles body.

Achilles was like a rock star of his day so it made sense to have Brad Pitt playing him.

Themistocles being asked whether he would rather be Achilles or Homer, said, "Which would you rather be, a conqueror in the Olympic games, or the crier that proclaims who are conquerors?

Ah, beer, my one weakness. My Achille's heel, if you will.

The difference between being Achilles and almost being Achilles is the difference between living and dying.

We read about how Ajax and Achilles will die for each other, but very little about the friendship of women.

Christ on a cracker. You raped Achilles!

An achilles, if it doesn't heal right, there could be a danger of not playing again.

I damaged my Achilles tendon, so I can't run.

It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles whom we knew.