'Medea' Quotes

Medea is the famous play by the Greek, Euripides. To what extent would a mother go? Here are a few quotes from the Greek drama.

• "Flow backward to your sources, sacred rivers,
  And let the world's great order be reversed.
  It is the thoughts of men that are deceitful,
  Their pledges that are loose."
  - Euripides, Medea
  
  
• "I am afraid of you...
  You are a clever woman, versed in evil arts
  And are angry at having lost your husband's love.
  I hear that you are threatening, so they tell me,
  To do something against my daughter and Jason
  And me too."
  - Euripides, Medea
  
  
• "I have often been the loser.
  Even now I know that I am making a mistake."
  - Euripides, Medea
  
  
• "Do you think that I would ever have fawned on that man
  Unless I had some end to gain or profit in it?"
  - Euripides, Medea
  
  
• "And when I have ruined the whole of Jason's house,
  I shall leave the land and flee from the murder of my
  Dear children, and I shall have done a dreadful deed.
  For it is not bearable to be mocked by enemies.
  So it must happen. What profit have I in life?
  I have no land, no home, no refuge from my pain."
  - Euripides, Medea