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Gold, silver, jewels, purple garments, houses built of marble, groomed estates, pious paintings, caparisoned steeds, and other things of this kind offer a mutable…

— Petrarch

Beware of Greeks bearing gifts.

— Virgil

“It is in the face of all this visual chaos, so opposed to order and simplicity, that I suddenly, perhaps a little guiltily, recall…

— Guy Vanderhaeghe

“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

“The chiseled beauty of his features, like an ancient greek coin.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Modern society calls the beggar bum and panhandler and gives him the bum's rush. But the Greeks used to say that people in need…

— Peter Maurin

“When the travesties scattered throughout our modern art museums are set alongside the glories of ancient Greece, the Christian heart should swell with pride.”

— Douglas Wilson

“The portraits, of more historical than artistic interest, had gone; and tapestry, full of the blue and bronze of peacocks, fell over the doors,…

— W.B. Yeats

I have turned my entire attention to Greek. The first thing I shall do, as soon as the money arrives, is to buy some…

— Desiderius Erasmus

“What is it about the Greek character that has allowed this complex culture to thrive for millennia? The Greek Isles are home to an…

— Laura Brooks

“You see, the foundations of our culture were laid in classical Greece, where physical beauty and the body were celebrated. But our culture is…

— Ted Chiang

“and all the beauty and the blasphemy. Petals, petals, scattering from the stands where only vestals were allowed to sit, having tended the flame…

— Sarah Arvio