Child Quote by Judith Merkle Riley

The Romans have provided a lot of writers with a model for various interstellar empires, of course, and no wonder. The Roman Empire is…

— Ann Leckie

Would that the Roman people had but one neck!

— Caligula

Roman military tactics were much over-rated. All the clever ones had the same idea, which was to go round the back.

— Mary Beard

Perhaps Western civilization is in a post-decline phase, or maybe the decline is just taking a really long time, like the Roman Empire's did.…

— Tom Shales

Would that the Roman people had but one neck! [Lat., Utinam populus Romanus unam cervicem haberet!]

— Suetonius

The Roman Code was merely an enunciation in words of the existing customs of the Roman people.

— Henry James Sumner Maine

Roman history was kind of unavoidable where I was growing up. It was everywhere - all the place names and ruins and forts. My…

— Neil Marshall

Since by the ordination of God I both am called and am Emperor of the Romans, in nothing but name shall I appear to…

— Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor

The Romans weren't trying to kill all the Jews, but they did destroy Jewish resistance to Roman rule. Jerusalem was turned into a Roman…

— Elaine Pagels

[Instead] of inquiring why the Roman empire was destroyed, we should rather be surprised that it had subsisted so long.

— Edward Gibbon

A major cause of the Roman Empire's decline, after six centuries of world dominance was its replacement of stone aqueducts by lead pipes for…

— Harris L Coulter

The Roman Empire was very, very much like us. They lost their moral core, their sense of values in terms of who they were.…

— Benjamin Carson

I think all novels are contemporary. When people went to see 'Antony-Cleopatra' at the Globe in the 16th century, they were not going to…

— Richard Flanagan

“Will you remember this day, Gogol?" his father had asked, turning back to look at him, his hands pressed like earmuffs to either side…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

“thick trees stood on either side of the wide front door.  A thick stone wall, nearly as tall as Shane’s father, protected the whole…

— Ron Ripley