Medea Quotes

“She is a frightening woman; no one who makes an enemy of her will carry off an easy victory”

• Nurse

• Chorus

• Aegus

• Jason

“Death take you, with your father, and perish his whole house!”

• Jason

• Medea

• Creon

• Chorus

“…we women are the most wretched.”

• Medea

• Chorus

• Glauce

• Nurse

“I’d rather stand three times in the front line than bear one child.”

• Nurse

• Medea

• Chorus

• Glauce

“I fear you”

• Jason

• Nurse

• Creon

• Medea

“Your words are gentle; but my blood runs cold to think what plots you may be nursing within your heart.”

• Jason

• Medea

• Aegeus

• Creon

“If your husband is won to a new love – the thing is common; why let it anger you?”

• Nurse

• Chorus

• Jason

• Creon

“Now I have no more hope; no more hope that the children can live.”

• Medea

• Nurse

• Chorus

• Jason

“You are acting wrongly in thus abandoning your wife.”

• Creon

• Medea

• Chorus

• Nurse

“All happiness to you, Medea!”

• Jason

• Creon

• Aegeus

• Nurse