Quotes About Gordian

Twenty-two acknowledged concubines and a library of sixty-two thousand volumes attested the variety of [Gordian's] inclinations; and from the productions which he left behind him, it appears that the former as well as the latter were designed for use rather than for ostentation.

Turn him to any cause of policy,The Gordian knot of it he will unloose,Familiar as his garter; that, when he speaks,The air, a charter'd libertine, is still.

Gordian pays you to sleep with unicorn hunters. That's the definition of a whore.

Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.

French editor Octave Uzanne called it "that Gordian city, so excessive, so satanic."27 Paul Lindau, an author and publisher, described it as "a gigantic peepshow of utter horror, but extraordinarily to the point."28

The enlightened consciousness of life capitulates in the face of death, the ecclesiastical one cuts through it, but nowhere is the Gordian knot really entwined into victory.

The human spirit is a mysterious thing: traumas that flatten some people bounce off of others. Pain and hope get tangled into uncuttable Gordian knots.

In The Prince he says that "a just war is a necessary war," thus cutting through the Gordian knot formed by endless Medieval discussions of Just War from Saint Augustine to Saint Thomas Aquinas.