Top Greek Quotes
Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy.
Theodore White
Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.
Karl Marx
Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.
Lord Acton
Television? The word is half Greek, half Latin. No good can come of it.
C. P. Scott
The Greek sculptor - I don't think he was very different from any of us.
Michael Tippett
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Vladimir Lenin 
John Eaton 
Margot Kidder 
Nana Mouskouri 
William Shakespeare All Greek Quotes
The British system had requirements, including Latin. I'm not positive you ever had to know Greek, but there are certainly kinds of curricula where you had to know Greek too. I think in Britain there was the most mindless, repetitive sort of learning.
William Scott 
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All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.
John Ruskin
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In England only uneducated people show off their knowledge; nobody quotes Latin or Greek authors in the course of conversation, unless he has never read them.
George Mikes
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A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
Samuel Johnson
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I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.
Heraclitus
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From that moment, I did not cease to pray to God that by his grace it might one day be permitted to me to learn Greek.
Heinrich Schliemann
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I do not read the ancient languages, but I am beginning to study Greek.
Anne Rice
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Greek was very much a live language, and a language still unconscious of grammar, not, like ours, dominated by definitions and trained upon dictionaries.
Gilbert Murray
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