Caligula Quote by Edward Bellamy

“The unwholesome-looking little moral agent of destruction exulted silently in the possession of personal prestige, keeping in check this man armed with the defensive…

— Joseph Conrad

“Caligula was a pervert and a tyrant. If the Roman emperor had any redeeming qualities, they weren’t immediately obvious. Unencumbered by things like morality…

— Natalie Kyriacou

“The Roman emperor Caligula allegedly planned to appoint his favourite horse, Incitatus, to the consulship.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“-We live in Rome, he says, turning his face to the room again, -Caligula's Rome, with a new circus of vulgar bestialized suffering in…

— William Gaddis

“The dirty romans are forming up for calvery.”

— John Steinbeck

“Letter from Philippus of Athens to Lucius Annaeus Seneca: Yet the Empire of Rome that [Octavius] created has endured the harshness of a Tiberius,…

— John Williams

“It is not much better to fall honourably in defence of liberty, than be again exposed to the outrages of Romans? Such, at least,…

— Queen Boadicea (Marsha Hinds

Mister Cameron - I have read the unexpurgated Ovid, the love poems of Sappho, the Decameron in the original, and a great many texts…

— Mercedes Lackey

“With these meager scraps of Latin and the like, you may perhaps be taken for a scholar, which is honorable and profitable these days.”

— Miguel de Cervantes

“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

“Now I would solicit the particular attention of those numerous people who imagine that money is everything in this world, and that rank and…

— Livy

“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