Abstraction Quote by Edward Gibbon

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

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

The Greek language seems different than other languages. I'm not the only person to think this. Usually, I come up with some kind of…

— Anne Carson

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

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

— Jarod Kintz

“I never thought Greek philosophy could make a damn bit of sense to me. And most of it didn't, but those words just seemed…

— Tessa Dare

Greek culture is pleasant to contemplate because of its great simplicity and naturalness, and because of the absence of gadgets, each of which is…

— George Sarton

Greek is doubtless the most perfect [language] that has been contrived by the art of man.

— Edward Gibbon

We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

I think Greek is a really tough language to learn.

— Maria Sakkari

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

— Anne Rice

If you look at the timing of many of the Greek dramas from the theatrical point of view, it's all off, and I think…

— John Eaton