Edgar allan poe Quote by Edgar Allan Poe

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

— Pietros Maneos

“I inherited my sense of passion and romance from the Romans. Specifically Nero and all the fire he possessed.”

— Jarod Kintz

“When evening comes, I return to my home, and I go into my study; and on the thresh-hold, I take off my everyday clothes,…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“In Rome, a woman’s power, however circumspectly exercised, arouses revulsion. Every death in my family circle has been laid at my door.”

— Phyllis T. Smith

“The Roman pomp and raiment have fallen away, and I swear last the glory of washed feet and shared bread.”

— Eli Brown

“This, then, is the fate of your sons, Oh Rome, oh celebrated power! Singer of love, singer of the gods, Tell me, what is…

— Alexander Pushkin

“Little did I realize that from that day onwards I was never to be my old normal self again, that I had unwittingly and…

— Gopi Krishna

“It was like a scene from the final hours of the Roman Empire: Everywhere you looked, some prominent politician was degrading himself in public.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

“And I suppose that what I have learned is a lesson that the years, or self-concern, had begun to hide from me, namely, that…

— James Lee Burke

“To have all those noble Romans alive before me, and walking in and out for my entertainment, instead of being the stern taskmasters they…

— Charles Dickens

“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

“Listen, then: we are not with you, but with him, that is our secret! For a long time now - eight centuries already -…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky