Greece Quotes

No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Ita...

In your Curled petals what ghosts Of blue headlands and seas, What perfumed immortal breath sighing ...

And there they ring the walls, the young, the lithe. The handsome hold the graves they won in Troy; ...

If it were not my purpose to combine barbarian things with things Hellenic, to traverse and civilize...

Youths of the Pellaians and of the Macedonians and of the Hellenic Amphictiony and of the Lakedaimon...

Holy shadows of the dead, I am not to blame for your cruel and bitter fate, but the accursed rivalry...

Our enemies are Medes and Persians, men who for centuries have lived soft and luxurious lives; we of...

For thousands of years humans were oppressed— as some of us still are— by the notion that the univer...

She would have been a better fuck in Greece, maybe. America was a shitty place to fuck.

1. Bangladesh.... In 1971 ... Kissinger overrode all advice in order to support the Pakistani genera...

[T]hose who willed the means and wished the ends are not absolved from guilt by the refusal of reali...

As to the gods, I have no means of knowing either that they exist or do not exist. For many are the ...

The glory that was Greece.

I came to the Greeks early, and I found answers in them. Greece's great men let all their acts turn ...

Why should I fear death?If I am, then death is not.If Death is, then I am not.Why should I fear that...

Gradually the magic of the island [Corfu] settled over us as gently and clingingly as pollen.

Out in the stone-pile the toad squatted with its glowing jewel-eyes and, maybe, its memories. I don'...

But now, as it is, sorrows, unending sorrows must surge within your heart as well—for your own son’s...

Let him submit to me! Only the god of death is so relentless, Death submits to no one—so mortals hat...

…but there they lay, sprawled across the field, craved far more by the vultures than by wives.

…There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible—magic to ...

You, you insolent brazen bitch—you really dare to shake that monstrous spear in Father’s face?

Like a girl, a baby running after her mother, begging to be picked up, and she tugs on her skirts, h...

You, why are you so afraid of war and slaughter? Even if all the rest of us drop and die around you,...

Why so much grief for me? No man will hurl me down to Death, against my fate. And fate? No one alive...

And his good wife will tear her cheeks in grief, his sons are orphans and he, soaking the soil red w...

…and they limp and halt, they’re all wrinkled, drawn, they squint to the side, can’t look you in the...

But they could neither of them persuade me, for there is nothing dearer to a man than his own countr...

Come then, put away your sword in its sheath, and let us two go up into my bed so that, lying togeth...

Captive Greece captured her rude conqueror

The young specialist in English Lit, having quoted me, went on to lecture me severely on the fact th...

Athens the eye of Greece mother of arts And eloquence.

Fair Greece! sad relic of departed worth! Immortal though no more though fallen great!

Men are not born equal in themselves, so I think it beneath a man to postulate that they are. If I t...

What is democracy? It is what it says, the rule of the people. It is as good as the people are, or a...

An ardent desire to go took possession of me once more. Not because I wanted to leave - I was quite ...

Concerning the gods I cannot know either that they exist or that they do not exist, or what form the...

If you are a dreamer, come in,If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar,A hope-er, a pray-er, a magic b...

I have seen or heard of no other man whom destiny treated with such enmity as it did Philoktetes

It is but sorrow to be wise when wisdom profits not.