Britons Quote by Catharine Arnold

“Romans withdrew from Britain four centuries later, the Britons began to retrogress,”

— Thomas Sowell

In the past, Britons were scathing about the cruelties of the old Roman empire and the excesses of Catholic empire builders such as the…

— Linda Colley

“I question whether any Turk, of all that have entered the Paradise of Opium-eaters, can have had half the pleasure I had. But, indeed,…

— Thomas de Quincey

“In the East — in Greece and Syria and Egypt — the Romans had conquered countries which had ancient and splendid traditions, and were…

— George Hodges

“Enthusiasts for empire argued that Rome had a civilizing mission; that because her values and institutions were self-evidently superior to those of barbarians, she…

— Tom Holland

When in Rome, you must do as the Romans do and accept the local customs, if they are not immoral.

— Vincent de Paul

“It’s a saying from thousands of years ago, written in a language called Latin about a place called Rome,” he explains. “Panem et Circenses…

— Suzanne Collins

In less than a century after the barbarian nations settled in their new conquests, almost all the effects of the knowledge and civility, which…

— Bryan Ward-Perkins

The northern nations who burst the barriers of the Roman Empire and spread themselves over the most flourishing countries of Europe soon became sensible…

— Benjamin Robbins Curtis

The army from Asia introduced a foreign luxury to Rome; it was then the meals began to require more dishes and more expenditure .…

— Livy

Ignorant of the arts of luxury, the primitive Romans had improved the science of government and war.

— Edward Gibbon

The fate of the Celt in the British Empire bids fair to resemble that of the Greeks among the Romans.

— Joseph Jacobs