"When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; And……" — Lord Byron
"When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; And when Rome falls--the World."
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382 Quotes by Lord Byron
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There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes,…
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If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his…
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I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.
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But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes…
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Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away; A single laugh demolished the right arm Of his country.
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Her great merit is finding out mine; there is nothing so amiable as discernment.
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Opinions are made to be changed or how is truth to be got at?
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Lovers may be and indeed generally are enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a…
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Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life, and if Virtue is not its own reward,…
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I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always…
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I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff- box from an emperor.
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It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe; you might as well tell a man not…
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More Coliseum Quotes
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The problem with comedy audiences - it's like the Coliseum - when they see someone struggling, they don't feel altruistic…
— Jo Brand
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I'm not sure what it was like to walk into the Coliseum, but I bet it was something like this.…
— Wright Thompson
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While the Coliseum stands, Rome shall stand; when the Coliseum falls, Rome shall fall; when Rome falls, the world shall…
— Venerable Bede
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We have rejected such spectacles as the Coliseum. How then, when we do not even look on killing lest we…
— Athenagoras of Athens
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One minute we can be in a small club, the next minute we can be in a coliseum, and the…
— Ben E. King
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Behold then Septimus Dodge returning to Dodge-town victorious. Not crowned with laurel, it is true, but wreathed in lists of…
— D. H. Lawrence
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One of the reasons I love to jump back and forth between mediums is that film does allow me to…
— Julie Taymor
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Listen, you make a big movie, you're going into the Coliseum, and people are going to give you the thumbs…
— Sam Mendes
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Genius, when employed in works whose tendency it is to demoralize and to degrade us, should be contemplated with abhorrence…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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We did eight gigs in super-stadiums, all the biggest joints - L.A. Coliseum, Oakland Coliseum, Shea Stadium.
— Joe Strummer
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Tears on the mauseoleum floor. Blood stains the coliseum doors. Lies on the lips of a priest. Thanksgiving disguised as…
— Jay-Z
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