“Most women run from danger like mice from a cat. You turn into a lion and take whatever comes. [Aurelia as seen… — Jane Finnis Copy Share Image
“I found out later than even an education and a cushioned introduction to power cannot make a great leader.” — Fredrik Nath Copy Share Image
“I kept secrets from you. I let you believe a lie. I am an impious son. But I made my choice, as… — Steven Saylor Copy Share Image
“We will only understand the Torah if we recall that every other religion in the ancient world worshiped nature. That is where… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
As the profoundest philosophy of ancient Rome and Greece lighted her taper at Israel's altar, so the sweetest strains of the pagan… — Edward Thomson Copy Share Image
Football is controlled violence, but it is violence, which people have loved to watch since the gladiatorial contests in ancient Rome. — Michael Mandelbaum Copy Share Image
“I may add as a fourth reason, which diminishes the authority of prodigies, that there is no testimony for any, even those… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen: all know how to die: but… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
From the very beginning, Americans have exhibited a taste for expansion, an appetite for empire. One of the fundamental reasons for this… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
Women [in ancient Rome] were condemned to the perpetual tutelage of parents, husbands, or guardians; a sex created to please and obey… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Geological facts being of an historical nature, all attempts to deduce a complete knowledge of them merely from their still, subsisting consequences,… — Richard Kirwan Copy Share Image
Putting gloves on the fighters was a symbolic change that suggested that we were now making it a civilized sport, and it… — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
“Addiction originally meant a different kind of strong connection: in ancient Rome, being addicted meant you had just been sentenced to slavery.” — Adam Alter Copy Share Image
“... all his faces were designed to express rage or loathing. Now that something had happened which really deserved a face, he… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
“Blood & Sand by Stewart Stafford Enduring to be burned, bound, beaten, And to die by the sword if necessary; Verus and… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
“Ancient Rome According to legend, the ancient city of Rome was built by Romulus and Remus. They were twin sons of Mars,… — Lisa Halvorsen Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Men like Caesar and Pompey--they're not heroes, Meto. They're monsters. They call their greed and ambition "honour," and to satisfy their so-called… — Steven Saylor Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
I devoured Gibbon. I rode triumphantly through it from end to end and enjoyed it all. I scribbled all my opinions on… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“the emperor had chewed off his balls and stuffed a one-way ticket to the Black Sea up his rectum [Marcus Corvinus explains… — David Wishart Copy Share Image
“Demalion, we’re alive.’ Pantera’s voice was unusually clipped, as if his patience had finally run to an end. ‘If we were trying… — M.C. Scott Copy Share Image
“Harder! Harder! Strike at it, for the gods’ sake! It’s a Parthian, not your grandmother! I swear if you don’t put some… — M.C. Scott Copy Share Image
“The enemy came towards us thick as mercury poured into a channel; a simmering tide oozing from the furnace of the risen… — M.C. Scott Copy Share Image
“Roman history also demands a particular sort of imagination. In some ways, to explore ancient Rome from the twenty-first century is rather… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image