Politics Quote by Hunter S. Thompson

“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

“Rome took all the vanity out of me,for after seeing the wonders there, I felt too insignificant to live, and gave up all my…

— Louisa May Alcott

“When you go to Rome, do as Rome does. Rome will be a ugly customer to you, if you don't. I'm your Rome, you…

— Charles Dickens

“Is your life really so bad? This city is full of opportunities –” “Can you call it a city?” Marcus asked. “No gymnasium, no…

— Matthew Johnson

“I know not why any one but a schoolboy in his declamation should whine over the Commonwealth of Rome, which grew great only by…

— Samuel Johnson

“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

“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

“Gio Parisi was a good-looking man,if your taste ran to dissolute Roman emperors.”

— Rosie Genova

“He was well aware of what an ass he was. Only Roman could tolerate him, really. Stupid, charming bastard.”

— Anne Mallory

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

— Pietros Maneos

“I desired that the Senate of Rome might appear before me in one large chamber, and a modern representative, in counterview, in another. The…

— Jonathan Swift

“this period, they alone could elect the political officials of the Roman state; no matter how blue-blooded you were, you could only hold office…

— Mary Beard