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702 Greek quotes by 506 unique authors

In 100 years we have gone from teaching Latin and Greek in High School to teaching remedial English in college. — Joseph Sobran
Versatility is one of the few human traits which are universally intolerable. You may be good at Greek and good at painting and be popular.… — Dorothy Dunnett
I've played American, Italian, Greek, French. I've been really lucky that way. — Chita Rivera
Envy is what makes you, when an acquaintance is lustily telling you that she's dating a Greek god of a guy, ask, 'Which one, Hades?' — Gina Barreca
Greek was very much a live language, and a language still unconscious of grammar, not, like ours, dominated by definitions and trained upon dictionaries. — Gilbert Murray
It helps to regard soul as an active intelligence, forming and plotting each person's fate. Translators use "plot" to render the ancient Greek word mythos… — James Hillman
The ancient Greeks noticed that a man with arms and legs extended described a circle, with his navel as the center. — Stephen Gardiner
When I was a kid, I'd kneel down at the side of my bed every night before I went to sleep, and my mother and… — Olympia Dukakis
By being so long in the lowest form [at Harrow] I gained an immense advantage over the cleverer boys. . . . I got into… — Winston Churchill
Mass ought to be in Latin, unless you could do it in Greek or Chinese. In fact, any abracadabra that no bloody member of the… — Ezra Pound
To save the theatre, the theatre must be destroyed, the actors and actresses must all die of the plague. They poison the air, they make… — Eleanora Duse
Attainment is followed by neglect, possession by disgust, and the malicious remark of the Greek epigrammatist on marriage may be applied to many another course… — Samuel Johnson
It's ironic that Olympic spectators will never have seen Yiannis Kouros, the greatest Greek athlete since Pheidippides — Ed Ayres
I think the Greeks first took astrology to India and took from the Hindus the science of astronomy and carried it back with them from… — Swami Vivekananda
The Greeks understood that mind and body must develop in harmonious proportions to produce a creative intelligence. And so did the most brilliant intelligence of… — John F. Kennedy
Whoever heard of such a mixture of languages in one army, since there were French, Flemings, Frisians, Gauls, Sayonards, Lotharingians, Allemani, Bavarians, Normans, English, Scots,… — Unknown Author
Ruth and I don't have a perfect marriage, but we have a great one. How can I say two things that seem so contradictory? In… — Billy Graham
Demon mean knowledge in Greek, especially about the material world. Science means knowledge in Latin. A jurisdictional dispute is exposed, even if we look no… — Carl Sagan
She is an excellent creature, but she can never remember which came first, the Greeks or the Romans. — Benjamin Disraeli
I suppose I walk that line between comedy and cruelty because I think one illuminates the other. We're all cruel, aren't we? We are all… — Martin McDonagh
After independence was gained, one of the first Acts passed by the Greek government was for the protection and preservation of national monuments. — Melina Mercouri
Enthusiasm is a wonderful thing. In South America they throw flowers to you. In Greece Greeks throw themselves. — Melina Mercouri
The only way for us to become great, or even inimitable if possible, is to imitate the Greeks. — Johann Joachim Winckelmann
The ‘I’ character in journalism is almost pure invention. Unlike the ‘I’ of autobiography, who is meant to be seen as a representation of the… — Janet Malcolm
Edited by mostly unknown scholars in A.D. 367, compiled from documents written 30 to 110 years after the Christ event by no one who was… — Leonard Shlain

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