Asked Quote by Matthew Johnson

“If Rome, was a city of vulgar living, had been depressing after Greece, London, a city of the drab dead, was fifty times worse.”

— John Fowles

“If Rome, a city of the vulgar living, had been depressing after Greece, London, a city of the drab dead, was fifty times worse. ”

— John Fowles

“There's a power struggle going on across Europe these days. A few cities are competing against each other to see who shall emerge as…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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

— Pietros Maneos

“London? Paris? Berlin? Zurich? Maybe Brussels, center of the young union? They all strive to outdo one another culturally, architecturally, politically, fiscally. But Rome,…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“It was like a scene from the final hours of the Roman Empire: Everywhere you looked, some prominent politician was degrading himself in public.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

“I always wonder about people who go to Rome as they might go, for example, to Paris or to London. Certainly Rome as well…

— C.G. Jung

“What can you possibly say about Rome? That it's eternal? That all roads lead to it? That it wasn't built in a day? That…

— Shawn Levy

“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

This very Rome that we behold deserves our love ...: the only common and universal city.

— Michel de Montaigne

“He (Scipio of Rome) did not consider that republic flourishing whose walls stand, but whose morals are in ruins. -- City of God, Book…

— Augustine of Hippo

“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