13/09/2020
You don’t need much to love Greece. Usually it’s enough to visit it. No matter whether you’ve already visited the country or you are planning a trip to Greece, fuel your inspiration with the best Greece quotes from people who have fallen in love with it.
I wonder if Socrates and Plato took a house on Crete during the summer. – Woody Allen
Happy is the man, I thought, who, before dying, has the good fortune to sail the Aegean sea. – Nikos Kazantzakis
I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else. – Nikos Kazantzakis
There us a kind of flame in Crete – let us call it “soul” – something more powerful than either life or death. There is pride, obstinacy, valor, and together with these something else inexpressible and imponderable, something which makes you rejoice that you are a human being, and at the same time tremble. – Nikos Kazantzakis
Gradually the magic of the island [Corfu] settled over us as gently and clingingly as pollen. – Gerald Durrell
My childhood in Corfu shaped my life. If I had the craft of Merlin, I would give every child the gift of my childhood. – Gerald Durrell
