Conger Quotes

Antagoras the poet was boiling a conger, and Antigonus, coming behind him as he was stirring his skillet, said, "Do you think, Antagoras, that Homer boiled congers when he wrote the deeds of Agamemnon?" Antagoras replied, "Do you think, O king, that Agamemnon, when he did such exploits, was a peeping in his army to see who boiled congers?" (Plutarch)
Leave the stronger and the lesser things to me! Lest that conger named Vanessa who is longer than a dresser visits thee. View quote
Mervyn Peake