Captive Quote by Horace

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

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

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

“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

Your ancestors invaded Macedonia and the rest of Greece and did us great harm, though we had done them no prior injury; ... [and]…

— Arrian

“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

“In the Greek Olympics, women, slaves, and foreigners never took part. Not in Greek democracy either.”

— Eduardo Galeano

She is an excellent creature, but she can never remember which came first, the Greeks or the Romans.

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

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

The Greek nation has to be respected. I am not in the camp of those who openly want to humiliate Greece.

— Jean-Claude Juncker

“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