You will find the Americans much like the Greeks found the Romans: great, big, vulgar, bustling people more vigorous than we are… — Harold Macmillan Copy Share Image
“It's a very Greek idea, and a very profound one. Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it. And… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“It is an interesting, though idle, speculation, what would be the effect on us if all our reformers, revolutionaries, planners, politicians, and… — H.D.F. Kitto Copy Share Image
Hence we will not say that Greeks fight like heroes, but heroes fight like Greeks. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The Ethiop gods have Ethiop lips, Bronze cheeks, and woolly hair; The Grecian gods are like the Greeks, As keen-eyed, cold and… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
