Christmas lights Quote by Jeffrey Eugenides

People try to make a Greek tragedy of my life, and they can't do it. I'm too happy.

— Curt Flood

“The ancient Greeks considered love a mental illness that led to suicide, homicide, betrayal, war, all sorts of fun.”

— Marion G. Harmon

Greece is like a mirror. It makes you suffer. Then you learn.' To live alone?' To live. With what you are.

— John Fowles

“moment to answer. He looked over the railing at our small backyard, which, no matter how our mother tried to dress up with annuals…

— Tom Upton

Life to most Greeks may be either tragic or comic or a mixture of both; but one thing it never is - and that…

— Helen Clark MacInnes

The situation in Greece just goes from bad to worse. We’ve now got a situation where there was the big suicide a few weeks…

— Nigel Farage

Many people have been pontificating, and patronizing, and moralizing, and scapegoating, saying you Greeks, you are the problem. I would say we Greeks have…

— George Papandreou

“I had read that more people committed suicide on Christmas Eve and on Christmas Day than at any other time. The holiday had little…

— Charles Bukowski

The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;' to which I would add, 'Let no…

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“If the Greeks were—as they were indeed—a brilliant people, they were individualistic to a fault, and concerned with the fate and fortune of themselves…

— Ernle Bradford

“Beware the Greeks when they bear gifts.”

— Colleen McCullough