Quote by Eli Brown

“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 dirty romans are forming up for calvery.”

— John Steinbeck

“Her marble tears run down her marble face. A stranger is someone who has no handkerchief. Who has no words to say. Whose shadow…

— Anne Carson

“Right now, is not the time to strike at the Romans, but it will come, and we will all rise and wipe out the…

— Michael G. Kramer

“You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things! O you hard hearts, you cruel men of Rome, Knew you not Pompey?”

— William Shakespeare

A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, "Was she not chaste? Was she not fair? Was she…

— Plutarch

“I have not always been as now: The fever'd diadem on my brow I claim'd and won unsurprisingly- Hath not the same fierce heirdom…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their…

— William Shakespeare

“The book of Romans goes deep, deep into our souls, and we can only stand what we see there because Romans also goes deep,…

— Desmond Ford

“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

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

— Pietros Maneos

“The Romans were not wiped out by the invasions of the barbarians, nor by the Christian virus, but by a more subtle evil, boredom.”

— Emil Cioran