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

The ancient Greeks noticed that a man with arms and legs extended described a circle, with his navel as the center.
Stephen Gardiner

The first of these phases is that of grammar, invented by the Greeks and carried on unchanged by the French. It never had any philosophical view of a language as such.
Ferdinand de Saussure

The Greeks already understood that there was more interest in portraying an unusual character than a usual character - that is the purpose of films and theatre.
Isabelle Huppert

The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;' to which I would add, 'Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy.'
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The Greeks said very, very extreme things in their tragedies.
Edward Bond

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

The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.
Madame de Stael

The theatre, our theatre, comes from the Greeks.
Edward Bond

The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life and the social situation.
Stella Adler

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

We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness.
Thucydides

We thus see that the Greeks of the early ages knew little of any real people except those to the east and south of their own country, or near the coast of the Mediterranean.
Thomas Bulfinch

We were discussing civilization and the fact that young men among the Greeks at that time were idiots and uneducated, so the men had emotional and friendly relationships with members of their own sex.
Marion Zimmer Bradley

We, to some degree, are like what we are because we inherited certain things from the Greeks and the Romans. One of them that's so striking is the whole area of politics.
Donald Kagan

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.
Marilyn French

What Shakespeare and the Greeks were able to do was radically question what it meant to be a human being.
Edward Bond

When Greeks joined Greeks, then was the tug of war.
Nathaniel Lee

Why do Greeks always open restaurants that fail?
George Chakiris