Rome Quotes · Page 10

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

— Terence McKenna

Shakespeare was a smart dude. He was the president of Rome.

— Adam DeVine

All roads lead to Rome, but our antagonists think we should choose different paths.

— Jean de La Fontaine

In Rome you long for the country. In the country you praise to the skies the distant town.

— Horace

I came to Rome when it was a city of stone ... and left it a city of marble

— Julius Caesar

Rome holds my psyche in balance. Whenever I'm there, it's like a holiday.

— Giambattista Valli

I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon, Than such a Roman.

— William Shakespeare

“The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.”

— Marcus Aurelius

And I myself, in Rome, heard it said openly in the streets, "If there is a hell, then Rome is built on…

— Martin Luther

“my fourth day in Rome, my shadow has still not darkened the door way of a church or a museum..”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Anywhere I go, there is always an incredible crowd that follows me. In Rome, as I land at the airport, even the…

— Muhammad Ali

In the journey of the year, the autumn is Venice, spring is Naples, certainly, and the majestic maturity of summer is Rome.

— George William Curtis

You don't need to go to Rome, Prague or Vienna to find wonderful architecture, amazing stories and suprising, hidden gems.

— Alice Roberts

The walls that fence our fields, as well as modern Rome, and not less the Parthenon itself, are all built of ruins.

— Henry David Thoreau

Ask me that again next month, when you're all in Dhaka and I'm in Rome, watching Chelsea playing Lazio!

— Alec Stewart

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

— Sophia Loren

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

— Edward Gibbon

If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance; but since nature has…

— Augustus

I'm the son of Jupiter, I'm a child of Rome, consul to demigods, praetor of the First Legion. I slew the Trojan…

— Rick Riordan

“In 63 BCE that was around a million men spread across the capital and throughout Italy, as well as a few beyond.…

— Mary Beard

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

— Peter Singer

German is more familiar now since I live part of the year in Rome and part in the German part of Switzerland.…

— Cecilia Bartoli

You will notice that in all disputes between Christians since the birth of the Church, Rome has always favored the doctrine which…

— Voltaire

I was born in Rome on March 11, 1923. Because of my age, I've become a piece of this country's history, but…

— Giovanna Cau

I just went to Europe, spent a year traveling, and then I came home with a finished album and said, "Hey everyone…

— Feist

In our own times, you see, an emperor came to the city of Rome, where there's the temple of an emperor, where…

— Saint Augustine

“There's a power struggle going on across Europe these days. A few cities are competing against each other to see who shall…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Adolf Hitler is probably the last of the great adventurer-conquerors in the tradition of Alexander, Caesar and Napoleon, and the Third Reich…

— William L. Shirer

Our understanding of early Christian beginnings is usually monolithic. It is much determined by the Acts of the Apostles, which pictures a…

— Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza

Strip back the beliefs pasted on by governesses, schools, and states, you find indelible truths at one's core. Rome'll decline and fall…

— David Mitchell

...it would be a mistake...to ascribe to Roman legal conceptions an undivided sway over the development of law and institutions during the…

— Woodrow Wilson

The best stuff that Cicero wrote, in the first century in Rome, were the Philippics, a series of speeches that he delivered…

— John D'Agata

My worst moment in football was losing that Champions League final to Barca in Rome.

— Michael Carrick

Detroits industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.

— P. J. O'Rourke

In discussing Barbarism and Christianity I have actually been discussing the Fall of Rome.

— Edward Gibbon

Rome, if you do not wish me to betray you, make enemies that I can hate!

— Pierre Corneille

Cease to admire the smoke, wealth, and noise of prosperous Rome.

— Horace

Rome was great in arms, in government, in law.

— Goldwin Smith

Rome ... seems to me the place in the world where one can best dispense with happiness.

— Fanny Kemble

“Your Life Determines Your Journey & Your Journey Determines Your Life”

— Charleston Parker