The Frogs on Andromeda: “There as, on deck, I'm reading to myself The Andromeda, a sudden pang of longing Shoots through my heart, you can't conceive how keenly.”
The Clouds on The Shearing of the Ram: “After we had feasted, as you know, I first bade him take a lyre, and sing a song of Simonides, "The Shearing of the Ram."”
Eminent Victorians on The Clouds: “As for Aristophanes, owing to his strong moral disapprobation, he could not bring himself to read him until he was forty, when, it is true, he was much struck by the 'Clouds'.”
Quichotte on The Clouds: “In Aristophanes' play The Clouds, Socrates floats overhead in a balloon basket, getting high so he can elevate his thoughts.”
The Last of the Wine on The Clouds: “they had puffed him up with vanity, taught him impious free-thinking (here someone usually quoted The Clouds) until he dared to chop logic with Perikles himself”
The Mask of Apollo on The Clouds: “the character arrested me, since I knew him mostly from the lampoon in The Clouds”
Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea on The Clouds: “There is a moment in Clouds when the avaricious protagonist, Strepsiades, discovers to his horror that his son has learned from the school of sophists”
The Testaments on Lysistrata: “He has several highly valuable editions that I envy: Dore's Inferno, Dali's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Picasso's Lysistrata.”