Roman Quotes

396 Roman quotes by 302 unique authors

The feat of superbly imitating a muscle, as Michelangelo did, or a face, as Raphael did, created neither progress nor a hierarchy in art. Because… — Fernand Leger
I don't like the slasher stuff, myself, but I do like the psychological horror of Roman Polanski and that world. But, it's curious to me… — Dylan McDermott
Both Jewish and Roman sources and traditions admit an empty tomb. — Josh McDowell
Programming graphics in X is like finding the square root of PI using Roman numerals. — Henry Spencer
My last days at MGM were like the fall of the Roman Empire in fast motion. — Joseph Barbera
French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture; like Roman design, it looks to the community. — Stephen Gardiner
For whatever reason, we relate to anything godlike with an English accent. The English are very proud of that. And with anything Roman or gladiators,… — Chris Hemsworth
Any student of the New Testament eager to understand its Greco-Roman setting will profit greatly from this excellent book. I commend it highly for its… — Craig S. Keener
If we can redefine marriage as between two men or two women or any other way based on social pressures as opposed to between a… — Benjamin Carson
Saint Teresa, as the Roman Rota attests, never fell into any mortal sin; but still Our Lord showed her the place prepared for her in… — Alphonsus Liguori
Gentlemen, do you know what is the finest speech that I ever in my life heard or read? It is the address of Garibaldi to… — Lajos Kossuth
Before the Roman came to Rye or out to severn strode, / The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English road. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
If you are at Rome live in the Roman style; if you are elsewhere live as they live elsewhere. — Ambrose
There was an ancient Roman lawyer, of great fame in the history of Roman jurisprudence, whom they called Cui Bono, from his having first introduced… — Edmund Burke
If we fail to appreciate the soul that Easternism gives us, then what we have is a disconnected, Greco-Roman, Western, egocentric, compartmentalized, reductionist, fragmented, linear… — Joel Salatin
Each suburban housewife spends her time presiding over a power plant sufficient to have staffed the palace of a Roman emperor with a hundred slaves. — Margaret Mead
Elegance is reduction, simplification, condensation. It is spare, stark, sleek. Elegance is cultivated abstraction. The source of Greek and Roman classicism - clarity, order, proportion,… — Camille Paglia
What Roman power slowly built, an unarmed traitor instantly overthrew. — Claudius Claudianus
People came into the Church in the Roman Empire because the Church was so good-Catholics were so good to one another, and they were so… — Andrew Greeley
There are many gods which Christians reject. I just believe in one less god then they do. The reasons that you might give for your… — Dan Barker
Remember, gentlemen, what a Roman emperor said: The corpse of an enemy always smells sweet. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Here Greek and Roman find themselves alive along these crowded shelves; and Shakespeare treads again his stage, and Chaucer paints anew his age. — John Greenleaf Whittier
Refusing further service as a Roman soldier: I am a soldier of Christ: combat is not permitted to me. — Martin of Tours
The Roman Empire controlled the world because it could build roads . . . the British Empire was dominant because it had ships. In the… — Lyndon B. Johnson
It is neither holy, Roman or an empire. — Napoleon Bonaparte

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