124 Quotes About Greece

If you wish to make Pythocles wealthy, don't give him more money; rather, reduce his desires.

Days of Kindness Greece is a good place to look at the moon, isn’t it

He was going to escort us to the Temple of Jupiter and the Theseion and other places as soon as we had had our fill of the Acropolis. We never went to these places, of course. We told him to drive into town, find a cool spot and order some ice cream.

The forces that drove Britain and the United States to control the world's shipping lanes in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, respectively, first saw light of day in Greece's need to feed itself with imported wheat and barley.

Captive Greece took captive her savage conquerer and brought the arts to rustic Latium

I was just thinking about Byron,’ said Jude. ‘He went to Greece, you know, Athens, during his gap years. A young man doing the grand tour; loved ancient Greece and all it stood for; put it all down in a poetic travelogue, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage … yeah. There’s a bit about Albania in it too.’ Jude covered his mouth and coughed lightly. ‘“Morn dawns and with it stern Albania’s hills … birds, beasts of prey, and wilder men appear … and gathering storms around, convulse the closing year.

I think: this is what I will miss. I think: I will kill myself rather than miss it. I think: how long do we have?

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

We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts have their root in Greece