Greek Quotes

Good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends.

First I lost my voice, then I lost my figure and then I lost Onassis.

When my enemies stop hissing, I shall know I'm slipping.

I was always too mature for my age - and not very happy. I had no young friends. I wish I could go back to those days. If I could only live it all again, how I would play and enjoy other girls. What a fool I was.

I don't know what happens to me on stage. Something else seems to take over.

Don't talk to me about rules, dear. Wherever I stay I make the goddam rules.

An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I've left the opera house.

There must be a law against forcing children to perform at an early age. Children should have a wonderful childhood. They should not be given too much responsibility.

That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends.

It's a terrible thing to go through life thinking that you have a rock on your side when you haven't.

You are born an artist or you are not. And you stay an artist, dear, even if your voice is less of a fireworks. The artist is always there.

I am not an angel and do not pretend to be. That is not one of my roles. But I am not the devil either. I am a woman and a serious artist, and I would like so to be judged.

Women are not pals enough with men, so we must make ourselves indispensable. After all, we have the greatest weapon in our hands by just being women.

I don't need the money, dear. I work for art.

When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point.

Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.

Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.

Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.

A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.

It is not I who have lost the Athenians, but the Athenians who have lost me.

Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.

Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god, but a great rock, and the sun a hot rock.

The descent to Hades is the same from every place.

Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine, were taken away.

I both love and do not love; and am mad and not mad.

Cursed be he above all others Who's enslaved by love of money. Money takes the place of brothers, Money takes the place of parents, Money brings us war and slaughter.

Wine is a peep-hole on a man.

'Tis said that wrath is the last thing in a man to grow old.

Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but men able to use their opportunity.

To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to steep the sense in drinking.