Describing Quote by Richard Asher

The fact is that much misunderstanding is often caused by our modern attempts to limit too strictly the meaning of a Greek word.

— Gilbert Murray

It is useless to read Greek in translation; translators can but offer us a vague equivalent.

— Virginia Woolf

For my part, it was Greek to me.

— William Shakespeare

Everything is Greek, when it is more shameful to be ignorant of Latin.

— Juvenal

“If you don’t speak Greek, how do you know if it’s all Greek to you?”

— Jarod Kintz

Greek is the morning land of languages, and has the freshness of early dew in it which will never exhale.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

I much preferred Latin to Greek. I loved the language being such a pattern that you could not shift a word without the whole…

— Alice Oswald

Well, with the French language, which I understood and spoke, however imperfectly, and read in great quantities, at certain times, the matter I suppose…

— Robert Fitzgerald

Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentlemen.

— George Bernard Shaw

There is a duality with Stath, which is that he probably wishes he was an English gentleman deep down - but he is simultaneously…

— Jamie Demetriou

I've always said that I don't necessarily feel stereotypically Greek.

— Jamie Demetriou

Cacus.” I’d had years of practice looking dumb when people threw out Greek names I didn’t know. It’s a skill of mine. Annabeth keeps…

— Rick Riordan