Britain Quote by William Scott

“It was not until 1948 that Cambridge University stopped requiring a knowledge of classical (ancient) Greek as a prerequisite for admission. This requirement was…

— Norman F. Cantor

In 100 years we have gone from teaching Latin and Greek in High School to teaching remedial English in college.

— Joseph Sobran

I actually only speak English and Latin. Medieval philosophy was my major, so we pretty much had to study in Latin.

— Dakin Matthews

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

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

The world no doubt is the best or most serviceable schoolmaster; but the world's curriculum does not include Latin and Greek.

— E. V. Lucas

I took Latin and Spanish. I can speak a very small amount of Spanish, but Latin has sort of gone away! Unless I was…

— Madeline Zima

I think Greek is a really tough language to learn.

— Maria Sakkari

In all the twelve years I was at school no one ever succeeded in making me write a Latin verse or learn any Greek…

— Winston Churchill

“No;—nobody in England ever is taught anything but Latin and Greek,—with this singular result, that after ten or a dozen years of learning not…

— Anthony Trollope

I am not of the opinion generally entertained in this country [England], that man lives by Greek and Latin alone; that is, by knowing…

— Lord Chesterfield

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

— Juvenal