Monologue Search Monologues by Aristophanes http://www.monologuesearch.com/authors/Aristophanes/rss This channel provides quotes from monologues by Aristophanes added by the members of MonologueSearch.com. en-us #2675 — Praxagora from The Ecclesiazusae by Aristophanes http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2675 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2675 "(Disguised as a man.) My country is as dear to me as it is to you, and I groan, I am grieved at all that is happening in it. Scarcely one in ten of those who rule it is honest, and all the others are bad. If you appoint fresh…" #2318 — Commissioner from Lysistrata by Aristophanes http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2318 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2318 "These degenerate women! What a racket of little drums,/ what a yapping for Adonis on every house-top!/ It's like the time in the Assembly when I was listening/ to a speech --- out of order, as usual --- by that fool/ Demostratos, all about troops for Sicily,/ that kind of…" #1575 — Female Chorus from Lysistrata by Aristophanes http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1575 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1575 "Nay, never play the brave man, else when you go back home, your own mother won't know you. But, dear friends and allies, first let us lay our burdens down; then, citizens all, hear what I have to say. I have useful counsel to give our city, which deserves it…" #2106 — STREPSIADES from The Clouds by Aristophanes http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2106 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2106 "Great gods! will these nights never end? will daylight never come? I heard the **** crow long ago and my slaves are snoring still! Ah! 'twas not so formerly. Curses on the War! has it not done me ills enough? Now I may not even chastise my own slaves--they never…" #634 — First Woman from The Thesmophoriazusae by Aristophanes http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/634 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/634 "FIRST WOMAN: If I have asked to speak, may the goddesses bear me witness, it was not for sake of ostentation. But I have long been pained to see us women insulted by this Euripides, this son of the grocer-woman, who loads us with every kind of indignity. Has he…" #1580 — Philocleon from The Wasps by Aristophanes http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1580 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1580 "At the outset I will prove to you that there exists no king whose might is greater than ours. Is there a pleasure, a blessing comparable with that of a juryman? Is there a being who lives more in the midst of delights, who is more feared, aged though he…"