Definitions Quote by Gilbert Murray

I think Greek is a really tough language to learn.

— Maria Sakkari

Greek is a musical and prolific language, that gives a soul to the objects of sense, and a body to the abstractions of philosophy.

— Edward Gibbon

What I liked about Greece was [...] the impressive force of the language itself, unconfined by dictionaries, spoken in the streets, in cafés and…

— Peter Levi

When I first started studying Greek, one of my absolute favorite parts was realizing that so many English words had these old, secret roots.…

— Madeline Miller

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

— Jarod Kintz

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

— Anne Rice

There's nothing a well-regulated child hates so much as regularity. I believe a really healthy boy would thoroughly enjoy Greek Grammar--if only he might…

— Lewis Carroll

“I was made to learn Latin and Greek, but I resented it, being of opinion that it was silly to learn a language that…

— Bertrand Russell

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

The fact is that much misunderstanding is often caused by our modern attempts to limit too strictly the meaning of a Greek word.

— Gilbert Murray

“Even after the Hellenistic empire of Alexander’s successors was supplanted by that of the Latin-speaking Romans, the usual linguistic development – the language of…

— Dimitri Gutas