Capitol Quote by Edward Gibbon

“The pilgrimage of Italy, which I now accomplished, had long been the object of my curious devotion. The passage of Mount Cenis, the regular…

— Edward Gibbon

Rome was a poem pressed into service as a city.

— Anatole Broyard

“The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people, as equally true; by the philosopher, as…

— Edward Gibbon

Rome was so mighty that it could not fall. It had to vanish in a cloud, like so many of the mythical heros of…

— H. P. Lovecraft

Rome was in the most dangerous inclination to change on account of the unequal distribution of wealth and property, those of highest rank and…

— Plutarch

The fall of Rome is often regarded as an object lesson in the wages of sin. Its contemporaries, however, more frequently laid the blame…

— Orosius

“Rather than a great tragedy, the fall of Rome was the single most beneficial event in the rise of Western civilization.”

— Rodney Stark

“Rome has been called the "Sacred City": - might not our Oxford be called so too? There is an air about it, resonant of…

— William Hazlitt

There was a dream that was Rome. You could only whisper it. Anything more than a whisper and it would vanish, it was so…

— Richard Harris

Rome is the city of echoes, the city of illusions, and the city of yearning.

— Giotto di Bondone

In discussing Barbarism and Christianity I have actually been discussing the Fall of Rome.

— Edward Gibbon

It was like the Colosseum in Rome and we were the Christians.

— Bobby Dodd