Grecian Quotes
20 quotes by 17 authors
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ZEUS /n./ The chief of Grecian gods, adored by the Romans as Jupiter and by the modern Americans as God, Gold, Mob and Dog.
— Ambrose Bierce
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There have been two lines of progress in this world-political and religious. In the former the Greeks are everything, the modern political institutions being only…
— Swami Vivekananda
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That the Hindus, absorbed in the ideal, lacked in realistic observation is evident from this. Take painting and sculpture. What do you see in the…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Foreign influence is truly the Grecian horse to a republic. We cannot be too careful to exclude its influence.
— Alexander Hamilton
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Sweet as sweetest Grecian honey will my song be when I sing, O Beloved, in the season of the Spring!
— Ruben Dario
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Once out of nature I shall never take My bodily form from any natural thing, But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make Of hammered…
— William Butler Yeats
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What is the foundation of that interest all men feel in Greek history, letters, art, and poetry, in all its periods, from the Heroic or…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The writer's only responsibility is to his art...If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the 'Ode on a Grecian Urn'…
— William Faulkner
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The Grecian’s maxim would indeed be a sweeping clause in Literature; it would reduce many a giant to a pygmy; many a speech to a…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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As the spring comes on, and the densening outlines of the elm give daily a new design for a Grecian urn, — its hue, first…
— Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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I met a redneck on a Grecian isle who did the Goat Dance very well.
— Joni Mitchell
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The Ethiop gods have Ethiop lips, Bronze cheeks, and woolly hair; The Grecian gods are like the Greeks, As keen-eyed, cold and fair.
— Walter Bagehot
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So far as female beauty is concerned, the Circassian women have no superiors. They have preserved in their mountain home the purity of the Grecian…
— Bayard Taylor
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So erst the Sage [Pythagoras] with scientific truth In Grecian temples taught the attentive youth; With ceaseless change how restless atoms pass From life to…
— Erasmus Darwin
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The writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one. He has a dream. It anguishes…
— William Faulkner
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It was a grey day, that least fleshly of all weathers; a day of dreams and far hopes and clear visions. It was a day…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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What is your substance, whereof are you made, That millions of strange shadows on you tend? Since everyone hath every one, one shade, And you,…
— William Shakespeare
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Our enemies, like the Grecian hero, have one vulnerable point. You have not touched it yet. What should have been their element of weakness has…
— Jay Alan Sekulow
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If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate: The 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' is worth any number of old ladies.
— William Faulkner
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By day, or on a cloudless night, a pilot may drink the wine of the gods, but it has an earthly taste; he's a god…
— Charles A Lindbergh
Who Wrote These Grecian Quotes
17 authors contributed a total of 20 Grecian Quotes as follows: