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I am proud of being a Greek of the diaspora.
— George Papandreou
There is a misleading, unwritten rule that states if a quote giving advice comes from someone famous, very old, or Greek, then it must be good advice.
— Bo Bennett
You don't come to see a Greek play and not want blood and gore and depth of feeling from your boots up.
— Ruth Negga
The visible aspect of modern life disturbs him not; rather is it for him to render eternal all that is beautiful in Greek, Italian, and Celtic legend.
— Oscar Wilde
The world no doubt is the best or most serviceable schoolmaster; but the world's curriculum does not include Latin and Greek.
— E. V. Lucas
Greek tragedy was pre-Freudian, so every emotion has to be so raw; there are no psychological undertones.
— Lydia Leonard
Flirting with random women in a tavern? That sounds like Helios. Well, it sounds like most of the gods, actually.
— Rick Riordan
That is a very good question. I don't know the answer. But can you tell me the name of a classical Greek shoemaker?
— Arthur Miller
Mankind became hysterical in the Middle Ages because it poorly repressed the sexual impressions of its Greek boyhood.
— Karl Kraus
Of all peoples the Greeks have dreamt the dream of life best.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
You can be a German, you can be a Greek or a Spanish or a Japanese etc, but your true nation is the whole humanity!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
The Greek poets had praised virtue as taking several specific forms: wisdom; courage; moderation; justice; and piety.
— Melissa Lane
In addition to English, at least one ancient language, probably Greek or Hebrew, and two modern languages would be required.
— W. H. Auden
He had put on the best-looking uniform that he could, thinking that...victory deserved the best-looking armour.
— Xenophon
Happy endings are best achieved by keeping the right doors locked
— Margaret Atwood
I sort of fell."
"Percy! Six hundred and thirty feet? — Rick Riordan
"Percy! Six hundred and thirty feet? — Rick Riordan
For the first few months I went round in a linguistic fog. Often I only realized what someone had said minutes or even days or weeks afterwards.
— John Mole
Gods are cold. War, killing, and stabbing each other in the back is really what we do best.
— Kendare Blake
Almost everything that men have said best has been said in Greek.
— Rabih Alameddine
Mortal fate is hard. You'd best get used to it.
— Euripides
I think American drama is at its best when it takes the domestic and makes it epic, like a Greek tragedy in the front room.
— Anne-Marie Duff
Enthusiasm is a wonderful thing. In South America they throw flowers to you. In Greece Greeks throw themselves.
— Melina Mercouri
In Classical Greek the word pathos was the same for both suffering and experience. Those Greeks knew a good joke when they heard one.
— Peter Straub
Hi, this is Ganymede, cup-bearer to Zeus, and when I'm out buying wine for the Lord of the Skies, I always buckle up!
— Rick Riordan
She was a living reverie for me: the mere sight of her sparked an almost infinite range of fantasy, from Greek to Gothic, from vulgar to divine.
— Anonymous
A guy in Greek armor drew his sword and charged, but slipped in a puddle of pina colada.
— Rick Riordan
Beware of Greeks bearing gifts,
— Virgil
Mega biblion, mega kakon (Big book, big evil)
— Callimachus
The Egyptian word Pir-em-us meant to them something of great vertical height. From this the Greek form Pyramis, or the plural Pyramides was formed.
— H. Spencer Lewis
I always tried to learn Greek, but all I got out of it was, "poulaki mou." ["My little chicken."]
— Augusten Burroughs
My whore of a brother has done it again." "Then, as always, orders me to clean up the mess." "I think I hate him." Poseidon to his brother, Zeus.
— Yelle Hughes
Proverbs were bright shafts in the Greek and Latin quivers ...
— Isaac D'Israeli
Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.
— Lord Acton
In childbirth grief begins.
— Euripides