Greek Revival Style

Famous quotes containing the words greek, revival and/or style:

    “In the Greek cities, it was reckoned profane, that any person should pretend a property in a work of art, which belonged to all who could behold it.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “I do not think a revival of business will be greatly postponed by [Samuel J.] Tilden’s election. Business prosperity does not, in my judgment, depend on government so much as men commonly think.”
    —Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)

    “Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.”
    —Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)