Art Quote by C.S. Lewis

“Lightly men talk of saying what they mean. Often when he was teaching me to write in Greek the Fox would say, “Child, to…

— C.S. Lewis

“Ancient writers sometimes meant what they said and occasionally even knew what they were talking about.”

— George Kennedy

“It may be prodigious, but it's all Greek to me!”

— Hergé

“If you don’t speak Greek, how do you know if it’s all Greek to you?”

— Jarod Kintz

“Sometimes the teachers would ask her to translate bad news. “Please tell Mrs. Fondulas that her son is very disruptive.” And my mom would…

— Tina Fey

“Every Greek, man, woman, and child, has to two Greeks inside. We even have technical terms for them. They are a part of us,…

— Louis de Bernières

“If you knew enough Greek, she thought, you could assemble a word that meant divination via the pattern of grease left on a paper…

— William Gibson

“Cadus spoke the local Greek better than I did; they stretch the vowels here, and round them off, so that words that look the…

— M.C. Scott

“No one can teach anyone to be a great anything. If your blood is on fire with the love of language and the desire…

— Frances Mayes

“I sit up talking till daybreak with the young people and we have almost Athenian evenings, Athenian, I mean, only in their intellectual subtlety…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Beware the Greeks when they bear gifts.”

— Colleen McCullough

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

— Jarod Kintz