Top 1200 Greek Tragedy Quotes & Sayings - Page 15
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Last updated on November 25, 2024.
When my father died in Greece, leaving my mother strapped, a cheque arrived next day from my Greek publishers who'd just bought two of my books for pounds 500.
A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
If you could envision... the meaning of a tragedy... you might be surprised to hear, its you and me.
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.
Politics is made up of two words: "Poli," which is Greek for "many," and "tics," which are bloodsucking insects.
Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.
Of all the subjects on this planet, I think my parents would have been hard put to name one less useful than Greek mythology to securing the keys to an executive bathroom.
That is the mysterious thing about tragedy- it often strikes at the happiest moment.
In the English language, I can love my car, or my house, or my daughter, or traveling, but in Greek and how I grew up, love is described with different words.
Isocrates was in the right to insinuate, in his elegant Greek expression, that what is got over the Devil's back is spent under his belly.
The husbandman is always a better Greek than the scholar is prepared to appreciate, and the old custom still survives, while antiquarians and scholars grow gray in commemorating it.
In an environment in which tragedy is genuine and frequent, laughter is essential to sanity.
We saw that on the Turkish side there was a sincere wish for peace. But before I could even put my foot back on Greek soil people called me a traitor.
In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.
A lot of names in America and Europe have their roots in Latin and Greek words. A lot of them go back to archetypes and their stories.
One meets the cat in nearly all forms of art...curiously enough she is not a conspicuous figure in Roman or Greek art.
And, with much of Europe occupied by Nazi Germany, and Mussolini's armies in Albania, on the Greek frontier, one wasn't sure what came next. So, don't trust the telephone. Or the newspapers. Or the radio. Or tomorrow.
I always read the Capitol as f—ked up pansexuality, everybody is doing everybody. Back to Greek and Roman times! It’s all happening.
The essence of dramatic tragedy is not unhappiness. It resides in the solemnity of the remorseless working of things.
Man and nature belong together in their created glory – in their tragedy and in their salvation.
The first time I was paid was with 'The Lobster,' because with the Greek films, we just had to pay ourselves - work for free while making commercials in order to survive.
I think my strength as a performer is my ability to straddle the fence between comedy and tragedy.
Laughter is the climax in the tragedy of seeing, hearing and smelling self-consciously.
Marriage, children-you never expect it to end in tragedy. Unless you're me.
I learned you could suffer a terrible tragedy and still be happy again.
Is it possible that a tragedy can look so beautiful? The death of the leaves is the answer for this question!
There's no genetic basis for any kind of rigid ethnic or racial classification. I'm always asked is there Greek DNA or an Italian gene, but, of course, there isn't. We're very closely related.
What makes America great is that we can come together during times of national tragedy.
One cannot balance tragedy in the scales Unless one weighs it with the tragic heart.
Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
The forge looked like a steam-powered locomotive had smashed into the Greek Parthenon and they had fused together.
Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
... passion, once unleashed, has a way of unleashing other passions -- a principle adhered to as firmly by the police force of any large modern city as by the Greek tragedians.
Bid the hungry Greek go to heaven, he will go.
[Lat., Graeculus esuriens in coelum, jusseris, ibit.]
The ancient Greek view of happiness was really defined by leading a productive life: It's not about how much you have, it's about what you do with it.
As an actor, you can do everything. I grew up in the theater, and you could do a musical, a comedy, a tragedy.
I thought I was attractive when I shot 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding.' Studio executives and movie reviewers let me know I had a confidence in my looks that was not shared by them.
The term "paradigm," from the Greek paradeigma ("pattern"), was used by Kuhn to denote a conceptual framework shared by a community of scientists and providing them with model problems and solutions
Laughter rises out of tragedy when you need it the most, and rewards you for your courage.
when I came to know Greek art I instantly understood that excess and perfection are enemies; yet on the other hand this world and the millions of worlds around us live by fire ... !
I like a man who likes to see a fine barn as well as a good tragedy.
The tragedy is women of color have made more progress in basketball than they have in broadcasting.
The first divorce in the world may have been a tragedy, but the hundred-millionth is not necessarily one.
The greatest tragedy for a good quotation is to be anonymous; and for the bad one, is to be known and famous!
The ability to understand and deliver comedy and tragedy is extremely rare in one composer.
The tragedy of human history is decreasing happiness in the midst of increasing comforts.
Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant
Silly of me not to have realized it. One often finds Greek temples lurking in the woods of English estates. Sneaky things, temples.
Some things in life are out of your control. You can make it a party or a tragedy.
Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.
In Kurosawa's films, the tragedy is that this strong man was crushed by corruption or mistrust at the end.
In England only uneducated people show off their knowledge; nobody quotes Latin or Greek authors in the course of conversation, unless he has never read them.
Reverend Samuel H. Weed, at my request selected two Greek words, 'cheir' and 'praktikos', meaning when combined, 'done by hand.' From which I coined the word, 'CHIROPRACTIC.'
Theatre probably originated without texts, but by the time we get to the classical Greek period, theatre has become text-based.
The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present.
Vegas means comedy, tragedy, happiness and sadness all at the same time.
To live two days in succession on the same spiritual plane is a tragedy
The only thing tragedy gives us is the opportunity to rebuild our life.
The word aerobics comes from two Greek words: aero, meaning “ability to,” and bics, meaning “withstand tremendous boredom.
Women aren't the problem but the solution. The plight of girls is no more a tragedy than an opportunity.
