Rome Quotes · Page 18

I have written a wicked book, and feel spotless as the lamb. Ineffable socialities are in me. I would sit down and…

— Herman Melville

Our own country furnishes antiquities as ancient and durable, and as useful, as any; rocks at least as well covered with lichens,and…

— Henry David Thoreau

In Rome, the emperor sat in a special part of the Colosseum called the Caesarian Section.

— George Carlin

But [the Arabs'] friendship was venal, their faith inconstant, their enmity capricious: it was an easier task to excite than to disarm…

— Edward Gibbon

Silent enim leges inter arma (Laws are silent in times of war).

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Even the most radical Islamic terrorist would not want to see the revered holy city of Medina go up. It would be…

— Nelson DeMille

We don't usually think of what we eat as a matter of ethics. Stealing, lying, hurting people - these acts are obviously…

— Peter Singer

While [the Arians], like men sprung from a dunghill, truly "spoke from the earth" [Jn. 3:31], the bishops [of Nicea], not having…

— Athanasius of Alexandria

“Rome Archer, if you don't wake up right this second so I can tell you that I love you, I swear I'm…

— Jay Crownover

Admit that the press transferred the pontificate of Rome to Henry VIII-Admit that the press demolished in some sort the feudal system,…

— John Adams

The old fellow who was cadging drinks from me the other night at the Cafe Royal told me he had known Julian…

— Robert Briffault

“it is always easy, as well as agreeable, for the the inferior ranks of mankind to claim a merit from the contempt…

— Edward Gibbon

Without my mother's ambition, her drive, I doubt that on my own I would have pushed myself out of Pozzuoli and into…

— Sophia Loren

[In ancient Rome,] why did the senate after killing Caesar turn around and give the government to his nephew? Why did France…

— George Lucas

I grew up in Rome, in actually what I would say was a liberal, open-minded family. My father was an architect and…

— Frida Giannini

And yes,Percy,of course they are now in our United States. Look at your symbol,the eagle of Zeus. Look at the statue of…

— Rick Riordan

Rome was mud and smoky skies; the rank smell of the Tiber and the exotically spiced cooking fires of a hundred different…

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

I'm very laid-back, and I meet people just by accident - never through agencies or anything like that. I met Paul Morrissey,…

— Udo Kier

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

Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places. At home I dream that at Naples,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Those have not lived who have not seen Rome.

— Margaret Fuller

I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.

— Julius Caesar

We have been concentrating on the banks, business and our bellies. We have neglected the spiritual and cultural. It was because Rome…

— Gutzon Borglum

Art's task is to save the soul of mankind.. anything less is a dithering while Rome burns.

— Terence McKenna

Rome is a city I love very much. I have lived there since I was a child.

— Paolo Sorrentino