"I, Tiberius Claudius Drusus Nero Germanicus This-that-and-the-other (for I shall not trouble you yet with all my titles) who was once, and not so long ago either, known to my friends and relatives and associates as “Claudius the Idiot,” or “That Claudius,” or “Claudius the Stammerer,” or “Clau-Clau-Claudius” or at best as “Poor Uncle Claudius,” am now about to write this strange history of my life; starting from my earliest childhood and continuing year by year until I reach the fateful point of change where, some eight years ago, at the age of fifty-one, I suddenly found myself caught in what I may call the “golden predicament” from which I have never since become disentangled."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
I, Claudius by Robert Graves.
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Opening_lines
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Opening lines
337 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Opening lines →
Related Quotes
"'Take my camel, dear,' said my aunt Dot, as she climbed down from this animal on her return from High Mass."
"A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away"
"Probable-Possible, my black hen,She lays eggs in the Relative-when. She doesn't lay eggs in the Positive-now. Because…"
"Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board."
"The sweat wis lashing oafay Sick Boy; he wis trembling."
"You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door."
"The primroses were over."
"Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested."
"When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow."
"Did you hear that? They've shut down the main reactor. We'll be destroyed for sure. This is madness!"