Art Quote by Havelock Ellis

“If you ask me if I know how to speak Latin, I’ll say, “No, it’s all Greek to me.”

— Jarod Kintz

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

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

— Juvenal

“The words of the Greeks are born on their lips, but those of the Romans in their hearts.”

— Cato

“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

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

— Jarod Kintz

I much preferred Latin to Greek. I loved the language being such a pattern that you could not shift a word without the whole…

— Alice Oswald

Cicero called Aristotle a river of flowing gold, and said of Plato's Dialogues, that if Jupiter were to speak, it would be in language…

— Plutarch

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

— Edward Gibbon

Greek is the morning land of languages, and has the freshness of early dew in it which will never exhale.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

“But this discourse, expressed in our paternal language, keeps clear the meaning of its words. The very quality of speech and of the Egyptian…

— Hermes Trismegistus

The Greeks understood the mysterious power of the below things. They are the ones who gave us one of the most beautiful words in…

— Louis Pasteur