"From now on I will call our esteemed EU partner "the former Ottoman possession of Greece"."

"And the hairy he-goat [stands for] the king of Greece; and as for the great horn that was between its eyes, it [stand…"

"Greece is a sort of American vassal; the Netherlands is the country of American bases that grow like tulip bulbs; Cub…"

"Graecia capta ferum victorem cepit et artes intulit agresti Latio."

"Conquered Greece took captive her savage conqueror and brought her arts into rustic Latium."

"Horace, Book II, epistle i, lines 156–157"

"Fuck your parliament and your constitution. America is an elephant. Cyprus is a flea. Greece is a flea. If these two …"

"Who governs this country?"

"The same, yet not the same — her face Has still that Grecian line ; The sculptured perfectness whose grace Has long b…"

"Your ancestors came to Macedonia and the rest of Hellas and did us great harm, though we had done them no prior injur…"