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Quotes About Herodias

At other times the children discerned in the water of the vase a figure which Giuliano recognized as the 'mistress of the game', (a designation used alternately for Diana and Herodias) who 'clothed in black, with a chin to her stomach', appeared before Giuliano himself, saying she was ready to reveal to him 'the properties of herbs and the nature of animals
~ Carlo Ginzburg
To be nameless in worthy deeds, exceeds an infamous history. The Canaanitish woman lives more happily without a name, than Herodias with one. And who had not rather have been the good thief, than Pilate?
~ Thomas Browne
Now Herod had arrested John and bound him and put him in prison on account of Herodias, his brother Philipís wife,
~ Matthew 14:3