Greek Quotes

• They tell us sometimes that if we had only kept quiet, all these desirable things would have come about of themselves. I am reminded of the Greek clown who, having seen an archer bring down a flying bird, remarked, sagely: 'You might have saved your arrow, for the bird would anyway have been killed by the fall.'

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Killed
  • Reminded
  • Arrow

• And, of course, it must be asked: is it proper to transact with the Turks for the most reassured of Greek possessions when Greece is under Turkish invasion and subjugation?

  

  Melina Mercouri
  • Greek

• To defer anything to the Greek Calends is to defer it sine die. There were no calends in the Greek months. The Romans used to pay rents, taxes, bills, etc., on the calends, and to defer paying them to the “Greek Calends” was virtually to repudiate them. (See NEVER.)

  

  E. Cobham Brewer
  • Die
  • Pay
  • Bills

• Ergometer is Greek for 'work meter'.

  

  Barry S. Strauss
  • Work
  • Greek
  • Ergometer

• Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns.

  

  Arne Jacobsen
  • Air
  • Greek

• It is certainly possible that the Greek economy can revive and achieve some growth over the years ahead.

  

  Charles Dallara
  • Growth
  • Greek

• The nomads' egalitarian lifestyle astonished the Greeks, who kept their own women indoors weaving and minding children. The exotic Scythian lifestyle fueled the Greek imagination and led to an outpouring of myths about fierce Amazons, 'the equals of men.'

  

  Adrienne Mayor
  • Men
  • Women
  • Children

• 147, on the situation in Greece: 'imminent collapse due to mounting guerrilla activity, supplied and directed from outside, economic chaos, and the Greek governmental inability to meet the crisis.'

  

  Dean Acheson
  • Chaos
  • Greek

• A state is not the same thing as a society, although the Greeks and Romans thought it was. A state is an organization of power on a territorial basis.

  

  Carroll Quigley
  • Organization
  • States
  • Bases

• 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
  • Art
  • True
  • Greek

• In addition to English, at least one ancient language, probably Greek or Hebrew, and two modern languages would be required.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • English
  • Greek

• I'm this dude that can play a farmhand and a handyman and sometimes a Greek god.

  

  Luke Evans
  • God
  • Greek

• In the entire first Christian century Jesus is not mentioned by a single Greek or Roman historian, religion scholar, politician, philosopher or poet. His name never occurs in a single inscription, and it is never found in a single piece of private correspondence. Zero! Zip references!

  

  Bart Ehrman
  • Christian
  • Poet
  • Historian

• 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
  • Words
  • Greek

• The modern sensibility attempts to drain the contents of experience; these Greek poets strive to state the fact so poignantly that it becomes an ever-flowing spring - as Sappho says, 'More real than real, more gold than gold.'

  

  Kenneth Rexroth
  • Real
  • Experience
  • Gold

• I have a confession to make. The love affair of my life has been with the Greek language. I have now reached the age when it has occurred to me that I may have read some books for the last time. I suddenly thought that there are books I cannot bear not to read again before I die. One that stands out a mile is Homer's Iliad.

  

  William Golding
  • Book
  • Age
  • Language

• One of the rules of Greek lament poetry is that it mustn't mention the dead by name in case of invoking a ghost. Maybe the 'Iliad,' crowded with names, is more than a poem. Maybe it's a dangerous piece of the brightness of both this world and the next.

  

  Alice Oswald
  • World
  • Poetry
  • Greek

• Greek tragedy was pre-Freudian, so every emotion has to be so raw; there are no psychological undertones.

  

  Lydia Leonard
  • Greek

• I thought that the chief thing to be done in order to equal boys was to be learned and courageous. So I decided to study Greek and learn to manage a horse.

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Horse
  • Learned
  • Chief

• Socrates... said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

  

  Plutarch
  • World
  • Greek

• The slight, the facile and the merely self-glorifying tend to drop away over the centuries, and what we are left with is the bedrock: Homer and Milton, the Greek tragedian and Shakespeare, Chaucer and Cervantes and Swift, Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy and James and Conrad. Time does not make their voices fainter, on the contrary, it reinforces our sense of their truth-telling capacity.

  

  Wendy Lesser
  • Truth
  • Century
  • Capacity

• In the reign of the Greek Emperor Justinian , and again in the reign of Phocas , the Bishop of Rome obtained some dominion over the Greek Churches, but of no long continuance. His standing dominion was only over the nations of the Western Empire, represented by Daniel's fourth Beast.

  

  Isaac Newton
  • Greek
  • Reign
  • Emperor Justinian

• American culture is kind of a universal culture, I guess. It's things Greeks grew up with, common references you can use. It's very interesting.

  

  Yorgos Lanthimos
  • Culture
  • Interesting
  • Common

• Fall Greeks; fail fame; honour or go or stay; My major vow lies here, this I'll obey.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Fall
  • Lying
  • Fame

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