World Literature Quotes identification

"I can't get any farther/Than the door. I am afraid/I will never make it to your house."

- from: An Excuse for not Returning the Visit of a Friend - speaker: the main speaker

"For whom has my heart's blood been poured out?/For myself I have obtained no benefit,/I have done a good deed for a reptile."

- from: Epic of Gilgamesh - speaker: Gilgamesh

"But I am deserted, a refugee, thought nothing of/ By my husband, --something he won in a foreign land."

- from: Medea - speaker: Medea

"Father dear, turn me into a mouse, and give me to him. Then I can keep house as my kind of people ought to do."

- from: Mouse- Maid Made Mouse - speaker: the mouse

"May Allah continue to shower His blessings upon our master! Your slave would prefer to return to the the house of him who brought her here."

- from: Sympathy the learned - speaker: Klalifah

"But more I wish you'd tell him, messenger, That too much pride has much harm done to men."

- from: To Sing of what I would not want i must - speaker: the author of the poem (Beatriz, Comtessa de Dia)

"But armor he will have, forged to a wonder, And its terrible beauty will be a marvel to me."

- from: the Iliad -speaker: Zeus's cripple son

"For being clever, I find that some will envy me/Others despise me."

- from:Medea - speaker: Medea

"At fifteen I stopped scowling,/I desired my dust to be mingled with yours/Forever and forever"

- from:The River- Merchant's Wife; A Letter - speaker: the wife