Greek Quotes

Greek culture is pleasant to contemplate because of its great simplicity and naturalness, and because of the absence of gadgets, each of which is sooner or later a cause of servitude.

George Sarton
The Greek 'point of view' in both art and chronology has little in common with ours but was much like that of the Middle Ages. (p. 64)

Marshall McLuhan
- Art
- Greek

Superheroes fill a gap in the pop culture psyche, similar to the role of Greek mythology. There isn't really anything else that does the job in modern terms. For me, Batman is the one that can most clearly be taken seriously.

Christopher Nolan
- Job
- Culture
- Taken
Indeed, many ancient Greek writers do treat Amazons as a tribe of men and women. They credit the tribe with innovations such as ironworking and domestication of horses. Some early vase paintings show men fighting alongside Amazons.

Adrienne Mayor
- Men
- Women
- Fighting
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
Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentlemen.

George Bernard Shaw
- Word
- Greek
- Against
Fall Greeks; fail fame; honour or go or stay; My major vow lies here, this I'll obey.

William Shakespeare
- Fall
- Lying
- Fame
From Architecture down to the Zodiac, every science worthy of the name was imported by the Greeks

H. P. Blavatsky