Change Quote by Ben Aaronovitch

A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, "Was she not chaste? Was she not fair? Was she…

— Plutarch

A bronze plaque read: GAIUS PLINIUS CAECILIUS SECUNDUS Dan made a face. "Get a load of the guy with the funny name." "I think…

— Gordon Korman

“His quick eyes seemed to miss nothing, and she couldn’t hide the motion of her fingers squeezing the fabric of her skirts. His gaze…

— Anne Mallory

“Rome took all the vanity out of me,for after seeing the wonders there, I felt too insignificant to live, and gave up all my…

— Louisa May Alcott

“suggested elegance, as if the Romans didn’t have enough on their own. Yet”

— Noel Hynd

“Oh, can these men love, my Clodius? Scarcely even with the senses. How rarely a Roman has a heart! He is but the mechanism…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

“Tiberius Nero’s face lit up with a smile. “What did you do, offer to make him consul?” I asked Tavius later. He shook his…

— Phyllis T. Smith

“Rome, yes, I say, thinking in quick succession of the Pantheon, the Colosseum and the cardinals screwing around while wondering whether women have souls…

— Erlend Loe

“But I am Niniane of Avalon, and I account to no man on this earth for what I do with what is mine --…

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

“Her marble tears run down her marble face. A stranger is someone who has no handkerchief. Who has no words to say. Whose shadow…

— Anne Carson

“The dirty romans are forming up for calvery.”

— John Steinbeck

“To my shame, the name he gave was not one that conjured any feeling in me: not fear, nor revulsion, nor horror at a…

— M.C. Scott