Greek Quote by Gilbert Murray

Words are the source of misunderstandings.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Everything is Greek, when it is more shameful to be ignorant of Latin.

— Juvenal

“To be sure, there were attempts at translating the philosophy that was written in Greek into other languages – the presumed intention being to…

— Dimitri Gutas

For my part, it was Greek to me.

— William Shakespeare

My Greekness was bound to come out of one orifice or another because I am Greek.

— Jamie Demetriou

Christianity did take a lot of Greek concepts.

— Oliver Stone

Language is the source of misunderstandings.

— Anonymous

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

— Edward Gibbon

Well, with the French language, which I understood and spoke, however imperfectly, and read in great quantities, at certain times, the matter I suppose…

— Robert Fitzgerald

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 translators of the LXX did not attempt to find a Greek word to correspond in sense with every Hebrew word or phrase. Sometimes…

— James John Courtenay

“Other instances can hardly be regarded as natural developments of the Greek, or as accidental coincidence with Hebrew or Aramaic. They must be explained…

— James John Courtenay