Famous quotes containing the words greek, foreign and/or affairs:
“So you may say,
Greek flower; Greek ecstasy
reclaims for ever
one who died
following
intricate songs lost measure.”
—Hilda Doolittle (18861961)
“There is a close tie of affection between sovereigns and their subjects; and as chaste wives should have no eyes but for their husbands, so faithful liegemen should keep their regards at home and not look after foreign crowns. For my part I like not for my sheep to wear a strangers mark nor to dance after a foreigners whistle.”
—Elizabeth I (15331603)
“Every new development for the last three centuries has brought men closer to a state of affairs in which absolutely nothing would be recognized in the whole world as possessing a claim to obedience except the authority of the State. The majority of people in Europe obey nothing else.”
—Simone Weil (19091943)