Afar Quote by George Eliot

I love Rome and the way that you can wander around and find something interesting around every street corner. You can smell the history.

— Jonathan Agnew

Rome used to have good public art in ancient times. There is nothing like West of Rome in Italy.

— Emi Fontana

In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of popular entertainment.

— George Ade

“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

“The Romans feared their dead. In fact, Roman funeral customs derived from a need to propitiate the sensibilities of the departed. The very word…

— Catharine Arnold

“I always wonder about people who go to Rome as they might go, for example, to Paris or to London. Certainly Rome as well…

— C.G. Jung

“that Rome (if one does not yet know it) has an oppressingly sad effect for the first few days: through the lifeless and doleful…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

See the wild Waste of all-devouring years! How Rome her own sad Sepulchre appears, With nodding arches, broken temples spread! The very Tombs now…

— Alexander Pope

In 'Roma,' I wanted to get across the idea that underneath Rome today is ancient Rome. So close. I am always conscious of that,…

— Federico Fellini

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over…

— Benjamin Disraeli

“One encounters in the streets, late at night on the evenings of fetes, the most strange and bizarre passers-by. Do these nights of popular…

— Jean Lorrain

Rome is a place almost worn out by being looked at, a city collapsing under the weight of reference.

— Graham Joyce