Being Quote by Alice Oswald

For my part, it was Greek to me.

— William Shakespeare

Everything is Greek, when it is more shameful to be ignorant of Latin.

— Juvenal

“If you ask me if I know how to speak Latin, I’ll say, “No, it’s all Greek to me.”

— Jarod Kintz

I think Greek is a really tough language to learn.

— Maria Sakkari

Well, with the French language, which I understood and spoke, however imperfectly, and read in great quantities, at certain times, the matter I suppose…

— Robert Fitzgerald

For mine own part, it was Greek to me

— William Shakespeare

The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity is of wonderful structure, more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin and more exquisitely…

— William Jones

I very much wish that some day or other you may have time to learn Greek, because that language is an idea. Even a…

— Sara Coleridge

I do not read the ancient languages, but I am beginning to study Greek.

— Anne Rice

Greek is the embodiment of the fluent speech that runs or soars, the speech of a people which could not help giving winged feet…

— Havelock Ellis

And though thou hadst small Latin, and less Greek.

— Ben Jonson

I always tried to learn Greek, but all I got out of it was, "poulaki mou." ["My little chicken."]

— Augusten Burroughs