Character Quote by Marlon James

“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

Hence we will not say that Greeks fight like heroes, but heroes fight like Greeks.

— Winston Churchill

“Heroism isn’t some mysterious inner virtue, the Greeks believed; it’s a collection of skills that every man and woman can master so that in…

— Christopher McDougall

Any time the character is in a moral quandary is interesting. That's been true from the Greeks on down.

— Robert Sean Leonard

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

In art the Greeks were the children of the Egyptians. The day may yet come when we shall do justice to the high powers…

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

A heroic nature is very Greek.

— Patrick Wilson

If you look at the heroes of antiquity and myth, they all have flaws. It's something that they have to overcome; their flaws are…

— Nicholas Meyer

The Greek people not only relate to the ancient traditions, they have fought, they have shed blood, until recently, to defend the values of…

— Alexis Tsipras

The Greeks had had vast experience in this world, their imagination had been fertile and they had created much...that, in these circumstances, they should…

— Joseph Kastein

In earlier antiquity, no doubt, the multiple and not necessarily consistent aspects of the Greek character found little difficulty in embracing spiritually, if not…

— Cedric H Whitman