The average beast of prey is a decent creature who merely kills for the sake of food or in a fight against an enemy. It is only man who calls killing…

- Gilbert Murray

A machine is a great moral educator. If a horse or a donkey won’t go, men lose their tempers and beat it; if a machine won’t go, there is no use beat…

- Gilbert Murray

It is doubtless one of Aristotle's great services that he conceived so clearly the truth that literature is a thing that grows and has a history.

- Gilbert Murray

The fashions of the ages vary in this direction and that, but they vary for the most part from a central road which was struck out by the imagination…

- Gilbert Murray

Greek was very much a live language, and a language still unconscious of grammar, not, like ours, dominated by definitions and trained upon dictionar…

- Gilbert Murray

The fact is that much misunderstanding is often caused by our modern attempts to limit too strictly the meaning of a Greek word.

- Gilbert Murray

The life and liberty and property and happiness of the common man throughout the world are at the absolute mercy of a few persons whom he has never s…

- Gilbert Murray

Where words can be translated into equivalent words, the style of an original can be closely followed; but no translation which aims at being written…

- Gilbert Murray

Few of the great works of ancient Greek literature are easy reading.

- Gilbert Murray