Famous quotes containing the words athens and/or village:
“A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.”
—Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881)
“You’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.”
—Stanley Kubrick (b. 1928)