British Classical Scholar Quotes

Benjamin Jowett

Henry George Liddell

Frederic G. Kenyon

Jane Ellen Harrison

Richard Porson

F. L. Lucas

Learn just enough of the subject [metaphysics] to enable your mind to get rid of it.

Benjamin Jowett

If I think of Death at all it is merely as a negation of life, a close, a last and necessary chord. What I dread is disease, that is, bad, disordered life, not Death, and disease, so far, I have escaped.

Jane Ellen Harrison

A good, very good, not to say admirable schoolmaster, but then he is only a schoolmaster.

Henry George Liddell

A man can make himself put down what comes, even if it seems nauseating nonsense; tomorrow some of it may not seem wholly nonsense at all.

No serious student of the Bible in English can neglect the Revised Version without loss.

Frederic G. Kenyon

There were two parts of the Greek-speaking world at this time which did not suffer from revolution and did not seek to impose rule over the city states. In Epirus there were three clusters of tribal states, called Molossia, Thesprotia and Chaonia[...]the other part of the Greek-speaking world extended from Pelagonia in the north to Macedonia in the south. It was occupied by several tribal states, which were constantly at war against Illyrians, Paeonians and Thracians.

N. G. L. Hammond

I like you the better for your illusions; but it cannot be denied that they prevent you from being effective, and if you do not become effective before you cease to want anything to be done-why, what will be the good of you?

Francis M. Cornford

To a gentleman, who, at the close of a fierce dispute with Porson, exclaimed, "My opinion of you is most contemptible, Sir"; he retorted, "I never knew an opinion of yours that was not contemptible."