Love Quote by John Fowles

“The heroes of ancient Greece wept more often than our silly, sentimental modern women. They knew it did no good to hold it back.…

— Erich Maria Remarque

“Sexual frenzy is our compensation for the tedious moments we must suffer in the passage of life. 'Nothing in excess,' professed the ancient Greeks.…

— Roman Payne

“By my third try, Lady Aithra had lost her patience and brought me to stand before her son while he was in conference with…

— Esther M. Friesner

“Greece is like a mirror. It makes you suffer. Then you learn.”

— John Fowles

“...I like to see things through the lens of Greek tragedy, which teaches us, among other things, that real tragedy is never a straightforward…

— Daniel Mendelsohn

“It has all the terrible beauty of a Greek tragedy, a tragedy in which I took a great part, but by which I have…

— Oscar Wilde

“It's a very Greek idea, and a very profound one. Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.”

— Donna Tartt

“Quotes from Ancient Greece are mostly all bollocks”

— Karl Wiggins

“What did I brood on, sitting there in the classic pose with my elbows on my knees and my chin on my hands? We…

— John Banville

“I’ve always liked it about the Greeks that they kept the violence off the stage.”

— Donna Leon

“In Rome, a woman’s power, however circumspectly exercised, arouses revulsion. Every death in my family circle has been laid at my door.”

— Phyllis T. Smith

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

— Marion G. Harmon