Rome Quotes

Volvo: Because all roads to Rome are twisted.

— Anonymous

Every one soon or late comes round by Rome.

— Robert Browning

All things may be bought in Rome with money.

— Juvenal

Everything in Rome has its price.

— Juvenal

Moving from Rome to Brussels was hard.

— Federica Mogherini

Oh Rome! My country! City of the soul!

— Lord Byron

Italy has changed. But Rome is Rome.

— Robert De Niro

Curiosity in Rome is a form of courtesy.

— Elizabeth Bowen

I wanted to go to Rome. I got an offer to do an Italian film and I went.

— David Naughton

It was like the Colosseum in Rome and we were the Christians.

— Bobby Dodd

I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.

— Augustus

For thogh we slepe, or wake, or rome, or ryde, Ay fleeth the tyme; it nyl no man abyde.

— Geoffrey Chaucer

I'm sure when they partied when Rome was burning, that was a really great party.

— Adam McKay

We later moved to Rome, where I am presently living.

— Grazia Deledda

When in Rome, live as the Romans do. When elsewhere, live as they live elsewhere.

— Anonymous

Fellini is a just a province kid. Rome exists for Fellini, not the other way around.

— Scott McClanahan

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?

— Will Rogers

I was born in London and raised in Rome until I was 4. Then we went back to London, where I went…

— Naomi Campbell

In ancient Israel and Rome the judge had appeared as a stand-in for the divine, and corruption was a blinding of the…

— Peggy Noonan

Rome is not outside me, but inside me.. Her feverish sweetness, her tragic countryside, her own beauty and harmony, all these are…

— Anonymous

[William] Klein has eyes like a knife. He is ruthless and outrageous but never mean - he is tender and funny and…

— Sophia Loren

Rome remained great as long as she had enemies who forced her to unity, vision, and heroism. When she had overcome them…

— Will Durant

While the Coliseum stands, Rome shall stand; when the Coliseum falls, Rome shall fall; when Rome falls, the world shall fall.

— Venerable Bede

'La Dolce Vita' made we want to go to Rome and, if not jump into the Trevi Fountain, at least watch someone…

— Colin Firth

New York is my home and I have a particular fondness for it. I think it's a place where you can generate…

— Woody Allen

There's only one reason to be crucified under the Roman Empire, and that is for treason or sedition. Crucifixion, we have to…

— Reza Aslan

Men, I'm getting out of Rome. Anyone who wants to carry on the war against the outsiders, come with me. I can…

— Giuseppe Garibaldi

When I am at Rome I fast as the Romans do; when I am at Milan I do not fast. So likewise…

— Ambrose

“I don't have a ring. I don't have a pretty speech prepared. All I know is that I love you more than…

— Jay Crownover

I mean my mother migrated from Georgia -Rome, Georgia, to Washington, D.C., where she then met my father, who was a Tuskegee…

— Isabel Wilkerson

Italy will never be a normal country. Because Italy is Italy. If we were a normal country, we wouldn't have Rome. We…

— Matteo Renzi

It was my proudest moment as a manager when England drew 0-0 with Italy in Rome to qualify for the World Cup…

— Glenn Hoddle

Historically the belief in heaven and the belief in utopia are like compensatory buckets in a well: when one goes down the…

— Will Durant

“The melancholy of the antique world seems to me more profound than that of the moderns, all of whom more or less…

— Flaubert Gustave

When we affect to condemn savages, we should remember that by doing so we asperse our own progenitors; for they were savages…

— Herman Melville

“One encounters in the streets, late at night on the evenings of fetes, the most strange and bizarre passers-by. Do these nights…

— Jean Lorrain

Our patriotism comes straight from the Romans. This is why French children are encouraged to seek inspiration for it in Corneille. It…

— Simone Weil

I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so-called History is. How many times must we say Rome, and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Doxology ... that testimonial to the Platonic Trinity, which divided the Roman Empire into at least eighteen quarreling sects, none of…

— Ruth Hurmence Green

“I always wonder about people who go to Rome as they might go, for example, to Paris or to London. Certainly Rome…

— C.G. Jung