Roman Quotes

396 Roman quotes by 302 unique authors

This is the fantasy of every woman - to hold at our feet servile and tame slaves, like in Roman times. And the worse we… — Thalia
Roman Candles was shown in a church, and so was Eat Your Makeup, so was Mondo Trasho, and so was Multiple Maniacs (1970). It's hard… — John Waters
The Holy Apostolic See and the Roman Pontiff have primacy in the entire world. The Roman Pontiff is the Successor of Blessed Peter, the Prince… — Pope Benedict XIV
The Roman Code was merely an enunciation in words of the existing customs of the Roman people. — Henry James Sumner Maine
And I myself, in Rome, heard it said openly in the streets, "If there is a hell, then Rome is built on it." MARTIN LUTHER,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The history of the Roman Empire is also the history of the uprising of the Empire of the Masses, who absorb and annul the directing… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
That Marxism should triumph in Russia, where there is no industry, would be the greatest contradiction that Marxism could undergo. But there is no such… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
Like other systems in decay, the Roman Empire continued to function for several generations after its vitality was sapped. For nearly a hundred years our… — Winston Churchill
It was manifest to me that there was something in the Roman Catholic religion which made the priests very dear to the people; for I… — Bill Vaughan
Oh, when shall Britain, conscious of her claim, Stand emulous of Greek and Roman fame? In living medals see her wars enroll'd, And vanquished realms… — Alexander Pope
The true key to the declension of the Roman empire which is not to be found in all Gibbon 's immense work may be stated… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The barbarian chieftain, who defended his country against the Roman invasion, driven to the remotest extremity of Britain, and stimulating his followers to battle, by… — John Quincy Adams
The Roman Curia has its defects, but it seems to me that people often overemphasize its defects and talk too little about the health of… — Pope Francis
'Doctor Who' was the first mythology that I learned, before ever I ran into Greek or Roman or Egyptian mythologies. — Neil Gaiman
The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally… — Edward Gibbon
I was brought up Roman Catholic. I'm not even baptized. — Billy Corgan
The court jester had the right to say the most outrageous things to the king. Everything was permitted during carnival, even the songs that the… — Umberto Eco
Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today. — Arthur Erickson
We have today a fairly thorough knowledge of the early Greco-Roman period because our motivations are the same. — Arthur Erickson
The thing about playing gods, whether you're playing Thor and Loki or Greco Roman gods or Indian gods or characters in any mythology, the reason… — Tom Hiddleston
The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof. — Thomas Hobbes
I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman… — Thomas Jefferson
I am utterly struck how, 300 years after his execution, Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire. — Peter Jennings
It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn't hear the barbarians coming. — Garrison Keillor
That is the Roman way: to give favors to the favorites. — Hans Kung

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