Greece Quotes

• Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence.

  John Milton

  Mother, Art, Eye

  Paradise Regained bk. 4, l. 240 (1671)

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• The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words.

  Robert South

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

  ROBERT SOUTH (1866). “SERMONS SEVERAL OCCASIONS”, p.318

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• The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

  Socrates

  Wise, Wisdom, Philosophy

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• The mention of Greece fills the mind with the most exalted sentiments and arouses in our bosoms the best feelings of which our nature is capable.

  James Monroe

  Feelings, Mind, Sentiments

  Message to Congress, December 1822.

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• Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentlemen.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Men, Greek, Gentleman

  'Major Barbara' (1907) act 1

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• In many ways we are all sons and daughters of ancient Greece.

  Nia Vardalos

  Mother, Daughter, Son

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• In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.

  George Santayana

  Wise, Men, Talking

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• England and Greece are friends. English blood was shed on Greek soil in the war against fascism, and Greeks gave their lives to protect English pilots.

  Melina Mercouri

  War, Blood, Greek

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• I think the Swedish Academy wished to manifest its solidarity with the living spirit of Greece today.

  Giorgos Seferis

  Thinking, Today, Spirit

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• The science, the art, the jurisprudence, the chief political and social theories, of the modern world have grown out of Greece and Rome-not by favour of, but in the teeth of, the fundamental teachings of early Christianity, to which science, art, and any serious occupation with the things of this world were alike despicable.

  Thomas Huxley

  Art, Teaching, Rome

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.315, Cambridge University Press

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• If we were living in ancient Rome or Greece, I would be considered sickly and unattractive. The times dictate that thin is better for some strange reason, which I think is foolish.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Thinking, Rome, Would Be

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• Socrates' fame spread all over Greece, and the most respected and educated men from all around came to him, in order to enjoy his friendly company and instruction.

  Moses Mendelssohn

  Men, Order, Friendly

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• Greece isn't a democracy now it's run through a troika - three foreign officials that fly into Athens airport and tell the Greeks what they can and can't do.

  Nigel Farage

  Running, Airports, Greek

  FaceBook post by Nigel Farage from Feb 15, 2012

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• I was a fighter pilot, flying Hurricanes all round the Mediterranean. I flew in the Western Desert of Libya, in Greece, in Syria, in Iraq and in Egypt.

  Roald Dahl

  Egypt, Iraq, Flying

  Roald Dahl (2008). “Boy: Tales of Childhood”, p.156, Penguin UK

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• We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Art, Law, Roots

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1874). “The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.166

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• To rejoice in life, to find the world beautiful and delightful to live in, was a mark of the Greek spirit which distinguished it from all that had gone before. It is a vital distinction.

  Edith Hamilton

  Beautiful, Greek, Gone

  Edith Hamilton (1987). “The Greek way ; The Roman way”, Random House Value Pub

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• There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible—magic to make the sanest man go mad.

  Homer

  Men, Mad, Magic

  "Iliad: Book XIV". Book by Homer (p.216 - 217), 750 BC.

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• Know ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime? Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, Now melt into sorrow, now madden to crime!

  Lord Byron

  Love, Turtles, Land

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.787, Delphi Classics

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• Come back with your shield - or on it

  Plutarch

  Greek, Sparta, Shields

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• Gone, glimmering through the dream of things that were.

  Lord Byron

  Dream, Gone, Athens

  Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.45, Cambridge University Press

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• I come from a Greek household. My mother wouldn't let the FedEx man come in without eating.

  Arianna Huffington

  Mother, Men, Greek

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• Greece bankruptcy will trigger a market crash. My advice: Buy Bitcoin & Gold Both will rise when the markets crash.

  Kim Dotcom

  Advice, Gold, Bitcoin

  Kim Dotcom @KimDotcom, twitter.com. June 20, 2015.

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• If you deconstruct Greece, you will in the end see an olive tree, a grapevine, and a boat remain. That is, with as much, you reconstruct her.

  Odysseas Elytis

  Country, Poetry, Tree

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• Greece is not a country of happy mediums: everything there seems to be either wonderful or horrible.

  Nancy Mitford

  Country, Wonderful, Horrible

  Nancy Mitford (1962). “The water beetle”

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  I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.

  Alexander the Great

  Inspirational, Leadership, Wisdom

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