--- title: "4 Greece Quotes By Lord Byron" description: "4 Greece quotes by Lord Byron. Plus more from Lord Byron and more Greece sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a62/lord-byron-356_ancient_ancient-of-days-august-athena-where-wher_1327469.jpg" --- > [Ancient of days! august Athena! where, Where are thy men of might? thy grand in soul? Gone--glimmering through the dream of things…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lord-byron/ancient-of-days-august-athena-where-where-are-thy-men-of-might-thy/) [Lord Byron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lord-byron/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a62/lord-byron-356_ancient_ancient-of-days-august-athena-where-wher_1327469.jpg) > [Know ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime? Where the rage…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lord-byron/know-ye-the-land-where-the-cypress-and-myrtle-are-emblems-of-deeds/) [Lord Byron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lord-byron/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7df/lord-byron-356_crime_know-ye-the-land-where-the-cypress-and-m_2008982.jpg) > [Gone, glimmering through the dream of things that were.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lord-byron/gone-glimmering-through-the-dream-of-things-that-were/) [Lord Byron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lord-byron/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/750/lord-byron-356_athens_gone-glimmering-through-the-dream-of-thi_2209904.jpg) > [Fair Greece! sad relic of departed worth! Immortal, though no more! though fallen, great!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lord-byron/fair-greece-sad-relic-of-departed-worth-immortal-though-no-more/) [Lord Byron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lord-byron/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/504/lord-byron-356_departed_fair-greece-sad-relic-of-departed-worth_2855204.jpg) ## Other authors on Greece - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-george-papandreou-37900.jpg) George Papandreou 20 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/greece/george-papandreou/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b011/author-homer-42227.jpg) Homer 13 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/greece/homer/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b005/author-barack-obama-16275.jpg) Barack Obama 12 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/greece/barack-obama/) - [Alexis Tsipras 11 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/greece/alexis-tsipras/) - [Yorgos Lanthimos 10 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/greece/yorgos-lanthimos/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b013/author-jeanclaude-juncker-48134.jpg) Jean-Claude Juncker 9 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/greece/jean-claude-juncker/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b016/author-lucas-papademos-61709.jpg) Lucas Papademos 8 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/greece/lucas-papademos/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b018/author-noam-chomsky-71799.jpg) Noam Chomsky 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/greece/noam-chomsky/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b011/author-henry-david-thoreau-41473.jpg) Henry David Thoreau 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/greece/henry-david-thoreau/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b004/author-antonis-samaras-14312.jpg) Antonis Samaras 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/greece/antonis-samaras/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b017/author-michael-hudson-67160.jpg) Michael Hudson 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/greece/michael-hudson/) - [Evangelos Venizelos 6 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/greece/evangelos-venizelos/) ## More by Lord Byron > [A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lord-byron/a-thousand-years-may-scare-form-a-state-an-hour-may-lay-it-in-ruins/) [Lord Byron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lord-byron/) > [To chase the glowing hours with flying feet.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lord-byron/to-chase-the-glowing-hours-with-flying-feet/) [Lord Byron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lord-byron/) > [Your thief looks Exactly like the rest, or rather better; 'Tis only at the bar, and in the dungeon, That wise men know your…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lord-byron/your-thief-looks-exactly-like-the-rest-or-rather-better-tis-only-at/) [Lord Byron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lord-byron/) > [Age shakes Athena's tower, but spares gray Marathon.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lord-byron/age-shakes-athena-s-tower-but-spares-gray-marathon/) [Lord Byron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lord-byron/) > [She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lord-byron/she-walks-in-beauty-like-the-night-of-cloudless-climes-and-starry/) [Lord Byron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lord-byron/) > [“We of the craft are all crazy. Some are affected by gaiety, others by melancholy, but all are more or less touched.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lord-byron/we-of-the-craft-are-all-crazy-some-are-affected-by-gaiety-others-by/) [Lord Byron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lord-byron/) > [Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lord-byron/men-love-in-haste-but-they-detest-at-leisure/) [Lord Byron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lord-byron/) > [And the commencement of atonement is the sense of its necessity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lord-byron/and-the-commencement-of-atonement-is-the-sense-of-its-necessity/) [Lord Byron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lord-byron/) > [Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lord-byron/self-love-for-ever-creeps-out-like-a-snake-to-sting-anything-which/) [Lord Byron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lord-byron/) > [Lord of himself; that heritage of woe!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lord-byron/lord-of-himself-that-heritage-of-woe/) [Lord Byron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lord-byron/) > [Here's a sigh to those who love me,And a smile to those who hate;And, whatever sky's above me,Here's a heart for every fate.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lord-byron/here-s-a-sigh-to-those-who-love-me-and-a-smile-to-those-who-hate-and/) [Lord Byron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lord-byron/) > [For most men (till by losing rendered sager), Will back their own opinions by a wager](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lord-byron/for-most-men-till-by-losing-rendered-sager-will-back-their-own/) [Lord Byron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lord-byron/) > [It is by far the most elegant worship, hardly excepting the Greek mythology. What with incense, pictures, statues, altars, shrines, relics, and the real…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lord-byron/it-is-by-far-the-most-elegant-worship-hardly-excepting-the-greek/) [Lord Byron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lord-byron/) > [I should like to know who has been carried off, except poor dear me - I have been more ravished myself than anybody since…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lord-byron/i-should-like-to-know-who-has-been-carried-off-except-poor-dear-me-i/) [Lord Byron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lord-byron/) > [O thou beautiful And unimaginable ether! and Ye multiplying masses of increased And still increasing lights! what are ye? what Is this blue wilderness…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lord-byron/o-thou-beautiful-and-unimaginable-ether-and-ye-multiplying-masses-of/) [Lord Byron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lord-byron/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/greece/lord-byron/#itemlist", "name": "4 Greece Quotes By Lord Byron", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Ancient of days! august Athena! where, Where are thy men of might? thy grand in soul? 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