Beauty Quote by Noel Hynd

In less than a century after the barbarian nations settled in their new conquests, almost all the effects of the knowledge and civility, which…

— Bryan Ward-Perkins

Sallust is indisputably one of the best historians among the Romans, both for the purity of his language and the elegance of his style.

— Edmund Burke

Elegance has a bad effect on my constitution.

— Louisa May Alcott

A design may be called organic when there is an harmonious organization of the parts within the whole, according to structure, material, and purpose.…

— Eliot Noyes

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor. On being reproached that his formula of gravitation was longer and…

— Albert Einstein

Do you know what elegance is? It is not only what you're wearing. It is how you wear it. who you are inside.

— Carolina Herrera

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

“Even Tacitus admitted that “whatever their origin, [the Jews’] observances are sanctioned by their antiquity,”64 and the Romans respected tradition. Christians, however, had no…

— Elaine Pagels

“Jesus was, if anything, far more useful than dangerous to the Romans.”

— Kamal Salibi

Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions?

— Camille Paglia

Rome has betrayed itself. It knew the truth and chose violence, it knew humaneness and it chose tyranny.

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

“The Romans, Jones pointed out, called a man in love salax, in a salted state, which is the origin of the word salacious.”

— Mark Kurlansky