124 Quotes About Greece

Her dress sparkled like the stars that blanketed the Mykonos night sky.

A philosopher named Aristippus, who had quite willingly sucked up to Dionysus and won himself a spot at his court, saw Diogenes cooking lentils for a meal. "If you would only learn to compliment Dionysus, you wouldn't have to live on lentils."Diogenes replied, "But if you would only learn to live on lentils, you wouldn't have to flatter Dionysus.

raised his arms like a magician or religious leader or politician; it was hard to tell which in this day and age

Am I such a devil that I have to have Allah watching me from the front and Christ watching me from the back?

Something which, once made, can never be destroyed, once destroyed, can never be repaired.

Remember us,Should any free soul come across this place,In all the countless centuries yet to be,May our voices whisper to you from the ageless stones,Go tell the Spartans, passerby:That here by Spartan law, we lie.

I killed him because I am Turkish and he was Greek. But when I looked at his face, as he looked up at me blindly, I couldn't see what separated us.

Life - with or without softener- is hard

The political men of Greece who lived under popular government recognized no other force to sustain it than virtue. Those of today speak to us only of manufacturing, commerce, finance, wealth, and even luxury.