Constantinople Quote by Mark Twain Download Open image “A street in Constantinople is a picture which one ought to see once-not oftener.” — Mark Twain ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Constantinople Ought Streets
If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul. — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
If they say "you have your last chance to look at the world", I wish that look would from Çamlıca of Istanbul. — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
People feel that the beauty of the Istanbul is something we used to have in the past or something we will have in the… — Burhan Sonmez Copy Share Image
I sometimes joke that I am the first writer of historical fiction who can look out his window and point to the objects in… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“There are some cities in the world, they would have looked much more beautiful had they never been a city and İstanbul is such… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
Photography intervenes in a very strange way. It makes the streets, gates, squares of the city into illustrations of a trashy novel, draws off… — Louis Aragon Copy Share Image
From the dome of St. Peter's one can see every notable object in Rome... He can see a panorama that is varied, extensive, beautiful… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“It should have been the Arabian Nights, but to Bond, seeing it first above the tops of trams and above the great scars of… — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
“Constantinople had been changing for sometime before the Young Turks got hold of it. It would continue to change long after they had gone.” — Charles Emmerson Copy Share Image
Even a tourist can tell in a Roman street that he is in something and not outside of something as he would be in… — Eleanor Clark Copy Share Image
Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The Creator sat upon the throne, thinking. Behind him stretched the illimitable continent of heaven, steeped in a glory of light and color; before him rose the black night of Space, like a wall. His mighty bulk towered rugged and mountain-like into the zenith, and His divine head blazed there like a distant sun. At His feet stood three colossal… — Mark Twain Copy Share
A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The higher animals get their teeth without pain or inconvenience. Man gets his through months and months of cruel torture; he will never get… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“As far as I can see, Italy, for fifteen hundred years, has turned all her energies, all her finances, and all her industry to the building up of a vast array of wonderful church edifices, and starving half her citizens to accomplish it. She is today one vast museum of magnificence and misery. All the churches in an ordinary American… — Mark Twain Copy Share
Begin with the determination to succeed and the work is half done already. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Many public-school children seem to know only two dates—1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Always have the fear of God in your heart, and remember that God is always with you, everywhere, whether you are walking or sitting. — Gennadius of Constantinople Copy Share Image
Constantinople was the principal seat and fortress of Arianism; and, in a long interval of forty years, the faith of the princes and prelates… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The Government should take a firm, bold line. This delay - this uncertainty, by which, abroad, we are losing our prestige and our position,… — Queen Victoria Copy Share Image
In all times and in all places--in Constantinople, northwestern Zambia, Victorian England, Sparta, Arabia, . . . medieval France,Babylonia, . . . Carthage, Mahenjo-Daro,… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
The pastoral labours of the archbishop of Constantinople provoked and gradually united against him two sorts of enemies; the aspiring clergy, who envied his success, and the obstinate sinners, who were offended by his reproofs. When Chrysostom thundered from the pulpit of St. Sophia against the degeneracy of the Christians, his shafts were spent among the crowd, without wounding or… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share
Environment is a sculptor - a painter. If we had been born in Constantinople, then most of us would have said: 'There is no God but Allah, and Mohammed is his prophet.' If our parents had lived on the banks of the Ganges, we would have been worshipers of Siva, longing for the heaven of Nirvana. As a rule, children… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share
Seldom can two such epoch-making events have occurred in successive years as happened then. In 1453 the Turks stormed Constantinople and finally destroyed the… — Frederic G. Kenyon Copy Share Image
Since the building of Constantinople, and the removal of the seat of government to that city, no political quarrel separated Rome from Egypt. Pagan… — Samuel Sharpe Copy Share Image
In Constantinople, more Christians were slaughtered by Christians in the years 342-343 than by all the persecutions by pagans in the history of Rome. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so-called History is. How many times must we say Rome, and Paris, and Constantinople! What does Rome know of rat and lizard? What are Olympiads and Consulates to these neighboring systems of being? Nay, what food or experience or succor have they for the Esquimaux seal-hunter, or the Kanaka… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
The division of the Roman world between the sons of Theodosius marks the final establishment of the empire of the East, which, from the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Virtue, my pet, is an abstract idea, varying in its manifestations with the surroundings. Virtue in Provence, in Constantinople, in London, and in Paris… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
