Greek Quotes

khalepa ta kala, greek. It means 'beauty is harsh'.

I've played American, Italian, Greek, French. I've been really lucky that way.

You can be a Polish American, or an Arab American, or a Greek American but you can't be English American. Why not?

The Olympics have just started and the Greeks are already 14 medals in debt.

Do you have any Greek in you? That was just a tactful way of asking if you're pregnant. If you're not, then let's break up.

Forgiveness is a beautiful thing. That's why I forgive Reince Priebus, that little Greek rascal.

The games of the ancient Greeks were, in their original institutions, religious solemnities.

They were the first Westerners. The spirit of the West, the modern spirit, is a Greek discovery; and the place of the Greeks is in the modern world.

The Greeks were the first intellectualists. In a world where the irrational had played the chief role, they came forward as the protagonists of the mind.

The Greek temple is the creation, par excellence, of mind and spirit in equilibrium.

What Shakespeare and the Greeks were able to do was radically question what it meant to be a human being.

The theatre, our theatre, comes from the Greeks

In families well ordered, there is always one firm, sweet temper, which controls without seeming to dictate. The Greeks represented Persuasion as crowned.

Greek is a musical and prolific language, that gives a soul to the objects of sense, and a body to the abstractions of philosophy.

Greek is doubtless the most perfect [language] that has been contrived by the art of man.

We all know what tragedy is. "Yes, I'd rather not have any more tragedy, please. I'll have comedy, please." Comedy, in the Greek sense, only means that it has a happy ending.

When the Greeks said, Whom the gods love die young, they probably meant, as Lord Sankey suggested, that those favored by the gods stay young till the day they die; young and playful.

The vast majority of Greeks accept the need for reform and want to keep our country inside the euro zone.

Those who have a lot of money in Greece invest in housing abroad. It's all immoral. The Greek crisis is structural, but also political.

For example, I like using strong Greek and Roman Renaissance characters as part of my series.

Although it is true that petros and petra can mean 'stone' and 'rock' respectively in earlier Greek, the distinction is largely confined to poetry.

The Greek makes the distinction between petros and petra simply because it is trying to preserve the pun, and in Greek the feminine petra could not very well serve as a masculine name.

Greek mathematics is the real thing. The Greeks first spoke a language which modern mathematicians can understand... So Greek mathematics is 'permanent', more permanent even than Greek literature.

The Greeks according to official history used letters for hundreds, for tens, and ones.It was extremely complicated. If you talk about Archimedes, you should use Greek letters.

I will always be upfront with the Greek people, so we can solve the country's problems together.

I have a deep sense of responsibility to my country and Greek people.

Politics also means educating people. It's important to speak openly with our fellow Greeks, to tell them what our problems are and that we have to change something.

Today I want to send a message of optismism to all Greeks. Our road, our path, will be more stabilised. Our country will be in a better situation. We will be stronger.

It is important that the Greek people make decisions on important developments.

Many people have been pontificating, and patronizing, and moralizing, and scapegoating, saying you Greeks, you are the problem. I would say we Greeks have a problem. We are not the problem.

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.

If ever the Greeks needed a Trojan horse, it is now.

The Indian gods are imposing, the Greek gods are not. Indeed they are not brave, not self-controlled, they have no manners, they are not gentlemen and ladies.

Plato was only a Bernard Shaw who unfortunately made his jokes in Greek.

The fact is that much misunderstanding is often caused by our modern attempts to limit too strictly the meaning of a Greek word.

The ancient philosophers, Chinese, Hindu, Persian, and Greek, were a class than which none has been poorer in outward riches, none so rich inward.

The world, which the Greeks called Beauty, has been made such by being gradually divested of every ornament which was not fitted to endure.

The husbandman is always a better Greek than the scholar is prepared to appreciate, and the old custom still survives, while antiquarians and scholars grow gray in commemorating it.

The Greeks have snatched up their spears. They have pointed the helms of their ships Toward the bulwarks of Troy.

The Muse gave the Greeks genius and the art of the well-turned phrase.

If my luck held, it wouldn't be a handsome Greek demigod looking for the love of his life or at least his love of a couple of hours.

Proverbs were bright shafts in the Greek and Latin quivers.

The Macedonian people and their kings were of Greek stock, as their traditions and the scanty remains of their language combine to testify.

Laughter on American television has taken the place of the chorus in Greek tragedy. It is unrelenting; the news, the stock-exchange reports, and the weather forecast are about the only things spared.

What can we expect from nations still less advanced in civilization than the Greeks?

Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events.

The life of the ancient Greeks and Romans has profoundly influenced our own, and yet the ways in which they affect us do not present themselves on the surface of our ordinary experiences.

There are more myths about Black Wednesday than the Greeks ever created.

Genetically, I'm pure Greek. Psychologically, environmentally, culturally, by choice, I'm a member of the black community.

Enthusiasm comes from the Greek word entheos, which means, "inspired" or "filled with the divine."