Captives Quote by Horace Download Open image “Captive Greece took captive her savage conqueror.” — Horace ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Captives Conqueror Greece Latin Savages
If you deconstruct Greece, you will in the end see an olive tree, a grapevine, and a boat remain. That is, with as much,… — Odysseas Elytis Copy Share Image
Greece expects you not merely to die for her, for that is little, indeed; she expects you to conquer. That is why each one… — Eleftherios Venizelos Copy Share Image
With all her masculine vigour and glory, Greece fell, gradually atrophied, because one half of her had been, of set purpose, intellectually and politically… — Tennessee Celeste Claflin Copy Share Image
“if Greece were a woman so sensually provocative that I must fall physically and desperately in love with her, and at the same time… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Your ancestors invaded Macedonia and the rest of Greece and did us great harm, though we had done them no prior injury; ... [and]… — Arrian Copy Share Image
“Every corner of the island was ransacked; every human being that could be found, was slain or carried into captivity. Nothing was to be… — William Deans Copy Share Image
“In the Greek Olympics, women, slaves, and foreigners never took part. Not in Greek democracy either.” — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
She is an excellent creature, but she can never remember which came first, the Greeks or the Romans. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Your ancestors came to Macedonia and the rest of Hellas [Greece] and did us great harm, though we had done them no prior injury.… — Alexander the Great Copy Share Image
For the sake of historical truth I must verify that only the Greeks, of all the adversaries who confronted us, fought with bold courage… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
The Greek nation has to be respected. I am not in the camp of those who openly want to humiliate Greece. — Jean-Claude Juncker Copy Share Image
“The revolt in Asia Minor was snugged out in 494, and the Athenians realized that they had acquired a dangerous enemy. Darius I's first… — Alan Ryan Copy Share Image
Strange - is it not? That of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us… — Horace Copy Share Image
“Finxerunt animi, raro et perpauca loquentis. (To action little, less to words inclinded.)” — Horace Copy Share Image
No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water. — Horace Copy Share Image
Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind. — Horace Copy Share Image
In a moment comes either death or joyful victory. [Lat., Horae Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.] — Horace Copy Share Image
Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori - It is a sweet and becoming thing to die for ones country. — Horace Copy Share Image
Neither men, nor gods, nor booksellers' shelves permit ordinary poets to exist. [Lat., Mediocribus esse poetis Non homines, non di, non concessere columnae.] — Horace Copy Share Image
Don't yield to that alluring witch, laziness, or else be prepared to surrender all that you have won in your better moments. — Horace Copy Share Image
Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted… — Horace Copy Share Image
“You may drive out Nature with a pitchfork, yet she still will hurry back.” — Horace Copy Share Image
People without an internalized symbolic system can all too easily become captives of the media. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
My favorite job is being a father. I have four girls now. They're a captive audience. — Bruce Willis Copy Share Image
We live in all we seek. The hidden shows up in too-plain sight. It lives captive on the face of the obvious - the… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Of all the jaw-droppingly beautiful women who've become genuine movie stars, none has had a longer film career (62 years), has been filmed in… — Robert Osborne Copy Share Image
Jah come to break downpression, rule equality, wipe away transgression, set the captives free. — Bob Marley Copy Share Image
The cry for freedom is a sign of suppression. It will not cease to ring as long as man feels himself captive. As diverse… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
It would drive the photographers crazy because I would giggle and tell jokes. I was gregarious, and looking back, I realize I had a… — Tracee Ellis Ross Copy Share Image
I envy not in any moods The captive void of noble rage, The linnet born within the cage, That never knew the summer woods. — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
