Greater

Greater may refer to:

  • Greatness, the state of being great
  • Greater than, in inequality
  • In terms of geography and politics it is used in referring to a region or place together with the surrounding area, therefore implying expansive area and/or influence

Famous quotes containing the word greater:

    Love has its name borrowed by a great number of dealings and affairs that are attributed to it—in which it has no greater part than the Doge in what is done at Venice.
    François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

    I never dreamed of any enormity greater than I have committed. I never knew, and never shall know, a worse man than myself.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    So cruel prison how could betide, alas,
    As proud Windsor, Where I in lust and joy
    With a king’s son my childish years did pass
    In greater feast than Priam’s sons of Troy?
    Where each sweet place returns a taste full sour;
    Henry Howard, Earl Of Surrey (1517?–1547)