| A | B |
|---|
| “A thousand women are not worth one man!” | Iphigenia |
| “Are these the words of a chief? For shame! You were not born for a life of ease, Lord Agamemnon!” | Old Servant |
| “Are you a man? Or nothing but a scepter and a sword?” | Clytemnestra |
| “Be at rest: I seem a god to you and I am none, yet will play this part you choose for me.” | Achilles |
| “Brothers should share their griefs.” | Menelaus |
| “Do you remember when your heart was set, though you concealed it, on this high command? How suave you were, how friendly to each clown, doors open to the world … and so you bought your power.” | Menelaus |
| “Even you may find meaning in my words when the sharp steel is close upon your neck. Your rashness must not bring you to your death.” | Achilles |
| “Have I been made to woo you for my daughter against your will?” | Clytemnestra |
| “I am compelled to that dread slaughter now.” | Agamemnon |
| “I am saved, saved! You will be proud of me!” | Iphigenia |
| “I have chosen death: it is my own free choice.” | Iphigenia |
| “I see your nature now, see what you are, and thirst to win you, soul of nobleness!” | Achilles |
| “I’ll not play decoy to lure the victim to the net of death.” | Achilles |
| “I’ll speak the naked truth, no dark hints now!... I never loved you!” | Clytemnestra |
| “If once you killed your child, how could you pray? What good thing ask for? Rather for defeat, disgrace, and exile! .. We make fools of the gods if we suppose they can love murderers.” | Clytemnestra |
| “It is a fearful thing to do this deed, yet fearful not to do it: I am bound.” | Agamemnon |
| “Life, the worst of lives, is better than the proudest death can be!” | Iphigenia |
| “My blood’s on fire. All tyrants I detest, though I yield gladly to a tempered rule.” | Achilles |
| “Now, by Hera, husband, do your man’s work and leave the home to me.” | Clytemnestra |
| “O goddess born! You see a wretched woman at your knees! All pride has left me!” | Clytemnestra |
| “O, you are fortunate, fortunate, all of you humble men, unknown, unhonored, and free from fear!” | Agamemnon |
| “Shame on you, Menelaus! You had no right to read the words I bore!” | Old Servant |
| “The face of Helen has roused war enough, battles of men and murders. O my friend, die not because of me, slay none for me.” | Iphigenia |
| “What can I do, a king? Our dignity still rules our lives, and still we serve the mob. I shame to weep, and yet I shame to weep not, in this sore strait.” | Agamemnon |
| “Why should you mourn and I have joy thereby? Your dear ones fall and mine have light and life?” | Menelaus |
