Greek Quotes

After the Egyptian and Indian, the Greek and Roman, the Teuton and Mongolian, the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in this American world, - a world which yields him no self-consciousness, but only lets him see himself through the revelation of the other world.

W. E. B. Du Bois
- World
- American
- Son
Television? The word is half Greek, half Latin. No good can come of it.

C. P. Scott
- Good
- Television
- Word

Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'

Immanuel Kant
- War
- Bad
- Evil
To be half-naked for a Greek mythology movie, it's a piece of art. You know, there's nothing vulgar in there.

Irina Shayk
- Art
- Movie
- You
I was sick and tired of reading other people's epigraphs. They all seemed to be in ancient Greek, middle French or, when they were translated, they never seemed to relate to the book at hand. Basically, they seemed to be there just to baffle you and to impress you with how smart the writer is.

Jim Crace
- People
- Book
- Reading
My father is Chinese, Spanish, and Filipino; my mother is half-Irish and half-Japanese; Greek last name; born in Hawaii, raised in Germany.

Mark Dacascos
- Mother
- Father
- Chinese
The bicycle had, and still has, a humane, almost classical moderation in the kind of pleasure it offers. It is the kind of machine that a Hellenistic Greek might have invented and ridden. It does no violence to our normal reactions: It does not pretend to free us from our normal environment.

J. B. Jackson
'The most perfect art was Greek art. Raphael is the greatest of all masters in painting'. Such were the doctrines of every art teacher only twenty or thirty years ago.

Emil Nolde
- Art
- Perfect
- Teacher