146 Quotes by Edith Hamilton

The comedy of each age holds up a mirror to the people of that age, a mirror that is unique.

Myths are early science, the result of men's first trying to explain what they saw around them.

There is no dignity like the dignity of a soul in agony.

The heterodoxy of one generation is the orthodoxy of the next.

A people's literature is the great text-book for real knowledge of them.

The temper of mind that sees tragedy in life has not for its opposite the temper that sees joy. The opposite pole to the tragic view of life is the sordid view.

Poetry and preaching do not go well together; when the preacher mounts the pulpit the poet usually goes away.

There is no better indication of what the people of any period are like than the plays they go to see.

One form of religion perpetually gives way to another; if religion did not change it would be dead. ... Each time the new ideas appear they are seen at first as a deadly foe threatening to make religion perish from the earth; but in the end there is a deeper insight and a better life with ancient follies and prejudices gone.