Pericles Quotes
6 quotes by 6 authors
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The chief glory of a woman is not to be talked of, said Pericles, himself a much-talked-of-man.
— Virginia Woolf
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There is a connection, hard to explain logically but easy to feel, between achievement in public life and progress in the arts. The age of…
— John F. Kennedy
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I envy those old Greek bathers, into whose hands were delivered Pericles, and Alcibiades, and the perfect models of Phidias. They had daily before their…
— Bayard Taylor
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Baseball, like Pericles' Athens (or any other good society), is simultaneously democratic and aristrocratic. Anyone can enjoy it, but the more you apply yourself, the…
— George Will
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Homer, Hesiod, Pythagoras, Plato, and Cicero, just to name a few, all lived in pagan societies. Some of the greatest political and military leaders of…
— Brendan Myers
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A leader may symbolize and express what is best in people, like Pericles, or what is worst, like Hitler, but he cannot successfully express what…
— Charles Yost
Who Wrote These Pericles Quotes
6 authors contributed a total of 6 Pericles Quotes as follows: