Able Quote by Sarah Monette

I very much wish that some day or other you may have time to learn Greek, because that language is an idea. Even a…

— Sara Coleridge

It is great to be Greek, because I have one of the best heritages in the world.

— Demis Roussos

What I liked about Greece was [...] the impressive force of the language itself, unconfined by dictionaries, spoken in the streets, in cafés and…

— Peter Levi

I do not read the ancient languages, but I am beginning to study Greek.

— Anne Rice

The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity is of wonderful structure, more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin and more exquisitely…

— William Jones

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

I think Greek is a really tough language to learn.

— Maria Sakkari

I'd love to go back to Greek times and see the birth of theater and performing, in that time. It would be so extraordinary…

— Michael Sheen

I started to learn Greek when I was in high school, the last year of high school, by accident, because my teacher knew Greek…

— Anne Carson

Greek is a musical and prolific language, that gives a soul to the objects of sense, and a body to the abstractions of philosophy.

— Edward Gibbon

From that moment, I did not cease to pray to God that by his grace it might one day be permitted to me to…

— Heinrich Schliemann

I'd like to speak a foreign language well enough to get the jokes. I'd like to talk with Socrates, and watch Michelangelo sculpt David.…

— Robert Fulghum