Quotations made about Greece

[Jeff Stanton]

Can anyone please cite any eloquent, poetic, positive only quotations
made about Greece and what makes it (it's peoples, history, culture,
etc.) so unique.

[John C. Shepard]

Jeff, here's a few:

Know ye the land where the cypress and myrtle
Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime,
Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle,
Now melt into sorrow, now madded to crime?
- Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), The Bride of Abydos (canto I)

Ancient of days! august Athena! where,
Where are thy men of might? thy grand in soul?
Gone--glimmering through the dream of things that were;
First in the race that led to glory's goal,
They won, and pass'd away--Is this the whole?
- Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Childe Harold (canto II, st.
2)

Fair Greece! and relic of departed worth!
Immortal, though no more; though fallen great!
- Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Childe Harold
(canto II, st. 73)

The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece!
Where burning Sappho loved and sung.
Where grew the arts of war and peace,--
Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung!
Eternal summer gilds them yet,
But all, except their sun, is set.
- Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Don Juan (canto III, st. 86)

Such is the aspect of this shore;
'Tis Greece, but living Greece no more!
So coldly sweet, so deadly fair,
We start, for soul is wanting there.
- Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), The Giaour (l. 90)

Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts
And eloquence.
- John Milton, Paradise Regained (bk. IV, l. 240)

To Greece we give our shining blades.
- Thomas Moore, Evenings in Greece--First Evening

Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated
gentlemen.
- George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara


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Post by Jeff Stanton
Can anyone please cite any eloquent, poetic, positive only quotations
made about Greece and what makes it (it's peoples, history, culture,
etc.) so unique.

[dolo]

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Post by John C. Shepard
The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece!
Where burning Sappho loved and sung.
Where grew the arts of war and peace,--
Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung!
Eternal summer gilds them yet,
But all, except their sun, is set.
- Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Don Juan (canto III, st. 86)

"I've built the perfect time machine. We're going to Greece."
"And swim the English Channel?"
"...No, no, to Ancient Greece, where burning Sappho stroked the Wine-Dark
sea,
in the temple by the moonlight, wa-de-do-dah..."
-Firesign Theatre "Nick Danger, Third Eye", 'How Can You Be in Two
Places At Once When You're Not Anywhere at All?'

Post by John C. Shepard
Regards, John C. Shepard
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dolo
:D

[Amazing Grace]

Americans believe that freedom was their invention. They have been known
to send peace-corps troops to Athens to teach the Greeks the meaning of
democracy. Peter Ustinov

Greek genius . . . Then we have it once more in their architecture, a
beauty as of temperance itself, limited to the straight line and the
square, - a builded geometry. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

The (ancient) Greeks believed that character was formed in part by fate
and in part by parental training, and that character was exemplified not
only by acts of bravery in battle but in the habits of daily conduct.
James Cannon

Christianity did not destroy paganism; it adopted it. The Greek mind
dying, came to a tranmigrated life in the theology and liturgy of the
Church; the Greek language, having reigned for centuries over
philosophy, became the vehicle of Christian literature and ritual; the
Greek mysteries passed down into the impressive mystery of the Mass.
Will and Ariel Durant

The Greeks surpassed us in artistic culture and in architecture five
hundred years before Christian religion was born. Mark Twain (Samuel
Clemens)

Post by Jeff Stanton
Can anyone please cite any eloquent, poetic, positive only quotations
made about Greece and what makes it (it's peoples, history, culture,
etc.) so unique.

[Jay Robert]

I think that a knowledge of Greek thought and life, and of the arts in which
the Greeks expressed their thought and sentiment, essential to high culture.
---Charles Eliot Norton, letter to F. A. Tupper, 1885

When the sceptre shall have passed away from England; when perhaps, travellers
from distant regions shall in vain labor to decipher on some mouldering
pedestal the name of our proudest chief…her [Athens'] influence and her glory
will still survive, fresh in eternal youth.
---Thomas Babington Macaulay, _Knight's Quarterly Magazine _, 1829

Neither Plato nor Homer takes pride in pictures or monuments, but in wisdom
alone. Blessed are they whose memory is enshrined in wise volumes and not in
empty images.
---Agathias Scholasticus of Myrina, _The Greek Anthology_

Nocturna versate manu, versate diurna---.
Read nightly and daily [the Greek authors].
(Note: Literally, "turn over…")
---Horace, _De Arte Poetica _, 269

Land of lost gods and godlike men.
---George Gordon, Lord Byron, _Childe Harold _, Stanza 85, 1812

Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face,
Thy naiad airs have brought me home
To the glory that was Greece,
To the grandeur that was Rome.
---Edgar Allan Poe, _To Helen_

- -
If an ancient Greek were to come to life now he would be found far oftener at
the circus than at the theatre.
---Oscar Wilde,_London Models_, _English Illustrated Magazine_, Jan. 1889

Post by Jeff Stanton
Can anyone please cite any eloquent, poetic, positive only quotations
made about Greece and what makes it (it's peoples, history, culture,
etc.) so unique.

--Jay

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To unpathed waters, undreamed shores.
---William Shakespear
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Post by Jeff Stanton
Can anyone please cite any eloquent, poetic, positive only quotations
made about Greece and what makes it (it's peoples, history, culture,
etc.) so unique.

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Poetic quotes about Greece, Mexico, the colour red -and possibly Italy
too!
Pardon my musings, Jeff but one sometimes becomes lost in reverie
considering the possible links when there is a quotation request.
One hopes it is romantic <s>

OBQ
Greece is a good place for rebirths.
~Judith Martin, Style and Substance (1986)

[As I am visiting there next year one can only hope..I may return a
totally new woman!!]

libreria
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