Ancient greek Quote by Ruth Ozeki

“Ancient writers sometimes meant what they said and occasionally even knew what they were talking about.”

— George Kennedy

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

— Jarod Kintz

“Cadus spoke the local Greek better than I did; they stretch the vowels here, and round them off, so that words that look the…

— M.C. Scott

“The words of the Greeks are born on their lips, but those of the Romans in their hearts.”

— Cato

“What the dead had no speech for, when living, They can tell you, being dead: the communication Of the dead is tongued with fire…

— T.S. Eliot

“All in all, I was harking back to the Ancient Greeks. When you get old, you always hark back to the Ancient Greeks.”

— Michel Houellebecq

“To make the ancients speak, we must feed them with our own blood.”

— von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff

“Here is a book of tongues. Take it. (Dark leaves invade the air.) Beware! I now know a language so beautiful and lethal My…

— Gwendolyn MacEwen

“The ancient Oracle said that I was the wisest of all the Greeks. It is because I alone, of all the Greeks, know that…

— Socrates

“Accents must have been pretty important in Ancient Greek, because a man called Herodian wrote a treatise in twenty-one books about them, most of…

— Caroline Taggart

“If you ask me if I know how to speak Latin, I’ll say, “No, it’s all Greek to me.”

— Jarod Kintz

“Maybe this had been something like the colour blindness of the ancient Greeks, before words had ushered in vision - we do not see…

— Jennifer duBois