Greeks Quotes

The ancient Greeks have a knack of wrapping truths in myths.

– George Lloyd

I have been as sincere a worshipper of Aurora as the Greeks.

– Henry David Thoreau

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

– John Major

There are proofs that date back to the Greeks that are still valid today.

– Andrew Wiles

Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks.

– Alistair Cooke

It’s only very recently that women have succeeded in entering those professions which, as Muses, they typified for the Greeks.

– Mary Ritter Beard

For the Greeks, there was no single canonical version of creation, but a number of overlapping stories.

– Neil MacGregor

The question of the composition of perceptible objects is one which already occupied the mind of the ancient Greeks.

– Johannes Stark

A lot of people don’t know that my background is completely classical. For a while there, I was all about Moliere and the Greeks and Brecht and Tennessee Williams.

– Katy Mixon

Everyone – whether it’s the Jews, the Greeks, the Catholics – everybody is entitled to religious beliefs and entitled to their traditions.

– John Catsimatidis

I love the Greeks. There’s no messing around – it’s all do or die with them.

– Ruth Negga

I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts.

– Virgil

We Greeks are the blacks of Europe.

– Yanis Varoufakis

Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns.

– Willem de Kooning