Rome Quotes · Page 6

Art still followed where Rome's eagles flew.

— Alexander Pope

I have come not to make war on the Italians, but to aid the Italians against Rome.

— Hannibal

We are gladiators of the third millennium and Rome is the cradle of the gladiators.

— Patricio Freire

“Rome seems a comfort to those with the ambitious soul of an Artist or a Conqueror.”

— Pietros Maneos

Nobody remembers who was the richest toga salesman in Rome.

— Les Wexner

I found Rome built of bricks; I leave her clothed in marble.

— Anonymous

Rome had Senators too, that's why it declined.

— Frank Dane

Rome didn't create an Empire by holding meetings - they did it by killing their enemies.

— Chris Johnson

All the bad things that have ever happened to me have always happened in Rome.

— Richard Burton

I have lived most of my life in Paris, but I have a connection with Rome that I have with no other…

— Darius Khondji

When Rome's in ruins, we are the lions free of the coliseums in poison places. We are the anti-venom. We're the beginning…

— Fall Out Boy

“This is the first lesson, Rhea. Men think they create the empires, but both are born of women. You will be a…

— Lauren J.A. Bear

I was so happy when I went to Rome and I saw that the Romans eat them too, the squash blossoms. [...]…

— Sandra Cisneros

We are faithful not to the triumphant golden eagle (ironically, also an imperial symbol of power in Rome) but to the slaughtered…

— Shane Claiborne

The universe has no prince or king that it [Rome] would consider equal to its humblest citizen.

— Pierre Corneille

Rome has seven sacraments, but the Protestant churches, being less prosperous, feel that they can afford only two, and these of inferior…

— Ambrose Bierce

I was thinking of winning the Scudetto in Rome. I did not succeed, but I grew as a goalkeeper.

— Wojciech Szczesny

The poor are always ragged and dirty, in very picturesque clothes, and on their poor shoes lies the earth of the Lacustrine…

— M. E. W. Sherwood

Edward Schillebeeckx is probably as fine a New Testament scholar as I've ever read. He's a Dutchman. And he was harassed so…

— John Shelby Spong

I decided with my head to move to Liverpool, but my heart was full of tears. I spent two special years in…

— Alisson

If all the barbarian conquerors had been annihilated in the same hour, their total destruction would not have restored the empire of…

— Edward Gibbon

Thirty centuries of history allow us to look with supreme pity on certain doctrines which are preached beyond the Alps by the…

— Benito Mussolini

I was practically driven to Rome in order to obtain the opportunities for art culture and to find a social atmosphere where…

— Edmonia Lewis

I've gradually fooled myself into becoming a real painter... I really just like to sit in my air-conditioned Rome painting studio surrounded…

— Mark Kostabi

Rome had Caesar, a man of remarkable governing talents, although it must be said that a ruler who arouses opponents to resort…

— Barbara Tuchman

“London? Paris? Berlin? Zurich? Maybe Brussels, center of the young union? They all strive to outdo one another culturally, architecturally, politically, fiscally.…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“The central government was a despotism tempered by military rebellion and assassination and replacement of one scurvy lot of ruling dynasts by…

— Norman F. Cantor

The decline of Rome was the natural and inevitable effect of immoderate greatness. Prosperity ripened the principle of decay; the cause of…

— Edward Gibbon

“Rome This afternoon I learned that Rome is called the “eternal city.” It’s also the largest city in Italy. Its population is…

— Lisa Halvorsen

Nowadays when a poet with one privately printed book can have his next three years taken care of by a Guggenheim fellowship,…

— Randall Jarrell

I never thought I'd get to see Rome," Hazel said. "When I was alive, I mean for the first time, Mussolini was…

— Rick Riordan

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

Whoever said "When in Rome, do as the Romans do", has never driven a car there.

— Lev L. Spiro

London is the epitome of our times, and the Rome of to-day.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

When Rome burned, the emperor's cats still expected to be fed on time.

— Anonymous

“When you fear nothing, you have nothing to fear”

— S.F. Chandler

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

— Geoffrey Chaucer

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