Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek.
Edmund Waller

Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns.
Arne Jacobsen

Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy.
Theodore White

Read Churchill, he tells you how crucial was the Greek role in your decisive desert victory over Rommel.
Melina Mercouri

Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.
Edward Bond

Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.
John Acton

Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.
Lord Acton

Television? The word is half Greek, half Latin. No good can come of it.
C. P. Scott

The ancient Greek oral poets all had this anxiety about the deficiencies of their memories and always began poems by praying to the Muse to help them remember.
David Antin

The British system had requirements, including Latin. I'm not positive you ever had to know Greek, but there are certainly kinds of curricula where you had to know Greek too. I think in Britain there was the most mindless, repetitive sort of learning.
William Scott

The fact is that much misunderstanding is often caused by our modern attempts to limit too strictly the meaning of a Greek word.
Gilbert Murray

The Greek sculptor - I don't think he was very different from any of us.
Michael Tippett

The higher Greek poetry did not make up fictitious plots; its business was to express the heroic saga, the myths.
Gilbert Murray

The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.
Aleister Crowley

The word democracy comes from the Greek and means, literally, government by the people.
Robert Welch

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

There was reference made to a book written in Greek by a former Rabbi who had been converted to Christianity. There was reference to a publication of a high clergyman of Milan. Not even did Jews raise objections to that book.
Julius Streicher

This was nostalgia in the literal Greek sense: the pain of not being able to return to one's home and family.
John Thorn

We read Greek and Norse mythology until it came out of our ears. And the Bible.
Penelope Lively

Well, opera began with an intent to resuscitate Greek drama, that is, modern opera as we know it.
John Eaton