The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I devoured Gibbon. I rode triumphantly through it from end to end and enjoyed it all. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
At the hour of midnight the Salerian gate was silently opened, and the inhabitants were awakened by the tremendous sound of the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Rome has New York's formlessness, aimlessness, a kind of hard-boiled sophistication, blase about everything. In their filmmaking, too, the Italians have this… — Paul Morrissey Copy Share Image
The UEFA Cup is now what we focus on. It's a huge game for us in Rome and it's all to play… — Mark Viduka Copy Share Image
Ancient Rome was as confident of the immutability of its world and the continual expansion and improvement of the human lot as… — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
The story is also about the battle between Arthur and the Saxons. The Saxons were destroying everything they came across and Arthur… — Antoine Fuqua Copy Share Image
Rome is the city above all cities which loses most of its meaning to those who do not bring to it some… — Clare Boothe Luce Copy Share Image
In Constantinople, more Christians were slaughtered by Christians in the years 342-343 than by all the persecutions by pagans in the history… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
I recently had a few days off while shooting a movie in Budapest, so I took a cab from the set to… — Cory Monteith Copy Share Image
What's one more meaningless act of violence on that zoo of a planet? It would be appropriate. When in Rome; burn it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And when my own Mark Antony Against young Caesar strove, And Rome's whole world was set in arms, The cause was,--all for… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
It was with the utmost difficulty that ancient Rome could support the institution of six vestals; but the primitive church was filled… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
If you spend any time in Washington you'll find nerds. What happens is most of them sublimate their fixations with comics, or… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
In the second century of the Christian era, the Empire of Rome comprehended the fairest part of the earth, and the most… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Mother of Rome, delight of Gods and men, Dear Venus that beneath the gliding stars Makest to teem the many-voyaged main And… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
I was against impunity when it comes to human rights violations. But many of us African leaders now want to leave the… — Yoweri Museveni Copy Share Image
First and foremost, the United States did not ratify the 1998 Rome Statute that founded the ICC. Successive administrations have stood by… — Robert C. O'Brien Copy Share Image
I was fortunate enough to do an HBO show, 'Rome,' in which my arc was built in by historical fact, and over… — James Purefoy Copy Share Image
What has history said of eminence without honor, wealth without wisdom, power and possessions without principle? The answer is reiterated in the… — Orson F. Whitney Copy Share Image
My fellow Americans: Last night when I spoke with you about the fall of Rome, I knew at that moment that the… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I had proposed to HBO a series about the city cops in Rome at the time of Nero. What had interested me… — David Milch Copy Share Image
I went to Europe to live in 1961. I'd never have written Julian if it hadn't been for the sequestered life that… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
