Quotes about Greece

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For many of our Greek friends a book is a final desperate attempt to fill the existential void when there is no one to t — John Mole, It's All Greek to Me!: A Tale of a Mad Dog and an Englishman, Ruins, Retsina--and Real Greeks
It is well known how the monks wrote silly lives of Catholic Saints over the manuscripts on which the classical works of — Karl Marx
Come then, put away your sword in its sheath, and let us two go up into my bed so that, lying together in the bed of lov — Homer, The Odyssey
The person who has trust in divine justice is neither upset when treated unfairly, nor seeks his justice; on the contrar — Elder Paisios of the Holy Mountain
You, you insolent brazen bitch—you really dare to shake that monstrous spear in Father’s face? — Homer, The Iliad
It is not the bloodletting that calls down power. It is the consenting. — Mary Renault, The King Must Die
Sexual frenzy is our compensation for the tedious moments we must suffer in the passage of life. 'Nothing in excess,' pr — Roman Payne
She would have been a better fuck in Greece, maybe. America was a shitty place to fuck. — Charles Bukowski, Women
Don't you remember what your grandfather used to say? That thing about pots and people?""That pots were like people," Al — Julia Wills, Fleeced!
I have seen or heard of no other man whom destiny treated with such enmity as it did Philoktetes — Sophocles, Philoctetes
As to the gods, I have no means of knowing either that they exist or do not exist. For many are the obstacles that imped — Diogenes Laërtius
Let's stop kidding ourselves that Greek debt is the Euro's key problem. With Greece gone, who's next ? — Alex Morritt, Impromptu Scribe
To those who have been accustomed to the difficulties and dangers of a sea-faring life, there are no lines which speak m — Frederick Marryat, The Pirate
Sergeant Pietro Oliva was a good Catholic. He liked to go into a church and cross himself, genuflect to the alter, and t — Louis de Bernières, Birds Without Wings
For thousands of years humans were oppressed— as some of us still are— by the notion that the universe is a marionette w — Carl Sagan, Cosmos
Youths of the Pellaians and of the Macedonians and of the Hellenic Amphictiony and of the Lakedaimonians and of the Cori — Alexander the Great
…and they limp and halt, they’re all wrinkled, drawn, they squint to the side, can’t look you in the eyes, and always be — Homer, The Iliad
And his good wife will tear her cheeks in grief, his sons are orphans and he, soaking the soil red with his own blood, h — Homer, The Iliad
Life is Not a perpetual climb towards Greatness.For our family, ourselves, and friends,It is but sad Decay, so,Let every — Roman Payne
If it were not my purpose to combine barbarian things with things Hellenic, to traverse and civilize every continent, to — Alexander the Great