Top Greek Quotes
Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy.
Theodore White
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
Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.
Karl Marx
People try to make a Greek tragedy of my life, and they can't do it. I'm too happy.
Curt Flood
Melina Mercouri 
Marcus V. Pollio 
William Shakespeare 
Thomas Jefferson 
Nana Mouskouri 
Heinrich Schliemann 
Aleister Crowley 
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I like to cook, but mostly Greek. When I am confused or tired, I think about what I can cook. It takes you away from everything, as you are thinking only of your dish.
Nana Mouskouri 
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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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No matter how thoroughly a person may have learned the Greek alphabet, he will never be in a condition to repeat it backwards without further training.
Hermann Ebbinghaus
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Read Churchill, he tells you how crucial was the Greek role in your decisive desert victory over Rommel.
Melina Mercouri
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Knowing some Greek helped defuse forbidding words - not that I counted much on using them. You'll find only trace elements of this language in the poem.
James Merrill
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My mother, Dorothy Watson, had met my father in a Greek class at Northwestern University.
James Cronin
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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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Few of the great works of ancient Greek literature are easy reading.
Gilbert Murray
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Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.
Edward Bond
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