Children Quote by Manda Scott

“Perhaps there is nothing greater on earth than the sacrifice of youth and beauty, often of high birth, made by the gentle sex in…

— Voltaire

“Worst of all, they had thrown off the old Roman martial virtues of honor and duty and adopted Christianity with its feminine qualities of…

— Lars Brownworth

“Barbarians are all alike... sit up half the night to discuss anything a Roman says.”

— Rudyard Kipling

“Have no fear whatever of the Romans; for they are superior to us neither in numbers nor in bravery… Let us, therefore, go against…

— Dio Cassius

“With that kill, the watching crowd realized this wasn’t just a show designed to inflate auction prices, and they howled for more blood. The…

— Lesley Livingston

“You fought well on Mona, my Mules, but I have brought you here for a little more javelin practice.’ The words carried along the…

— Douglas Jackson

“The explosion of grotesque immorality we associate with imperial Rome—open prostitution and perversion, the bloody gladiatorial combats, and so forth—is best understood as a…

— Rod Bennett

“We received our coloring from Norsemen. Hairy savages who hacked their gods to pieces and hung the flesh from trees. We are the ones…

— Janet Fitch

Citizens of Rome might boast that the claim of 'Civus romanus sum' set them apart from barbarians and slaves, and it was true up…

— Michael Korda

“And confronting these men, wild and terrible as we agree that they were, there were men of quite another kind, smiling and adorned with…

— Victor Hugo

“O [Roman] people be ashamed; be ashamed of your lives. Almost no cities are free of evil dens, are altogether free of impurities, except…

— William J Federer

“If Rome were a woman, she’d be a whore.”

— Elizabeth Geoghegan