Catullus Quotes (14 Quotes)

It is difficult suddenly to put aside a long-standing love it is difficult, but somehow you must do it.

I can imagine no greater misfortune for a cultured people than to see in the hands of the rulers not only the civil, but also the religious power

What is there given by the gods more desirable than a happy hour.

Rise up, lads, the evening is coming. The evening star is just raising his long-awaited light in heaven.

I write of youth, of love, and have access by these to sing of cleanly wantonness

If a man can take pleasure in recalling the kindnesses he has done.

I must confess, mine eye and heart Dote less on Nature than on Art

Let us live my Lesbia, and love, and value at one farthing all the talk of crabbed old men

So a maiden, while she remains untouched, remains dear to her own but when she has lost her chaste flower with sullied body, she remains neither lovely to boys nor dear to girls

Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred, then a thousand more.

No more thy pains for others' welfare spend, Nor think by service to attach a friend All are ungrateful - love goes slighted still - Nor merely so, but is repaid by ill Witness myself, house bitterest foe is he, Who never had a friend on earth bu

Poor Catullus, cease your folly and give up for lost what you see is lost.

I hate and love - wherefore I cannot tell, but by my tortures know the fact too well

Now Spring restores the balmy heat, now Zephyr's sweet breezes calm the rage of the equinoctial sky.