Bronze Quote by Walter Bagehot

“The Ethiops say that their gods are flat-nosed and black, While the Thracians say that theirs have blue eyes and red hair. Yet if…

— Xenophanes

The Ethiops say that their gods are flat-nosed and black, While the Thracians say that theirs have blue eyes and red hair. “If oxen…

— Xenophanes

The Ethiopians say that their gods are snub-nosed and black the Thracians that theirs have light blue eyes and red hair.

— Xenophanes

“Ethiopians imagine their gods as black and snub-nosed; Thracians blue-eyed and red-haired. But if horses or lions had hands, or could draw and fashion…

— Anonymous

The Grecian are youthful and erring and fallen gods, with the vices of men, but in many important respects essentially of the divine race.

— Henry David Thoreau

Gods have many faces.

— Subhash Kak

The Greeks, it will be recalled, regarded Eros, the god of love, as the eldest of the gods; but also as the youngest, born…

— Joseph Campbell

Some gods may cross your path, but why should gods be beautiful? They could also be frightening.

— Jeanne Moreau

The Indian gods are imposing, the Greek gods are not. Indeed they are not brave, not self-controlled, they have no manners, they are not…

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

The Greeks understood perfectly that if there were divine beings they are capricious, unkind, malicious mostly, temperamental, envious and mostly deeply unpleasant because that…

— Stephen Fry

“They prefer a God of an altogether softer flavor. Nothing too extreme. Complaisance, not magnanimity. They do not think upon the “God of God,…

— Geoffrey Wood

The Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of skin.

— Herodotus