Marriage Quote by Jeffrey Eugenides

The squabbles of philandering Zeus and shrewish Hera are the Greeks' comment on married life.

— Mason Cooley

We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness.

— Thucydides

“Every Greek, man, woman, and child, has to two Greeks inside. We even have technical terms for them. They are a part of us,…

— Louis de Bernières

Let Greeks be Greeks, and women what they are.

— Anne Bradstreet

“When an Italian marries a Greek, you get the union of two lots of people who believe themselves to be the creators of modern…

— Joe Novella

We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

The Greeks, with their truly healthy culture, have once and for all justified philosophy simply by having engaged in it, and having engaged in…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“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

Greek culture is pleasant to contemplate because of its great simplicity and naturalness, and because of the absence of gadgets, each of which is…

— George Sarton

Beware of Greeks bearing gifts.

— Virgil

“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

“The Greeks have three words for love, and that night we knew them all.”

— Luna McNamara