British Quote by Peter Greenaway

The fall of Rome seemed unthinkable to people at the time but inevitable to historians reflecting upon it with the benefit of context.

— Mary Pilon

“Even historians, who should know better, still seem addicted to the idea that nothing of any consequence occurred between the fall of the Roman…

— James Hannam

The Roman Empire was very, very much like us. They lost their moral core, their sense of values in terms of who they were.…

— Benjamin Carson

“History, as it was purveyed to us, was not so much a narrative, not even the detached observation of the rise and fall of…

— Patricia Hampl

“In five hundred years' time, to the historian writing the Decline and Fall of the British Empire, this little episode would not exist. There…

— Graham Greene

“The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people, as equally true; by the philosopher, as…

— Edward Gibbon

History is gossip that's been legitimized, and that's really the case when you get into some of the Roman historians. Wow! They'd be right…

— Anonymous

My view as a historian is that the empire was an extractive, exploitative, racist and violent institution and that the history of empire is…

— David Olusoga

Postcolonial critics are, I suspect, wrong when they argue that the mass of British people still mourn the loss of empire. But Britain's politicians…

— Linda Colley

Were you to read the British press today, you would learn that the British Empire never forgets its defeats.

— Robert Trout

Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won't fall.

— Al Stewart

If overconfidence can cause the Roman Empire to fall, I ought to be able to get a ground ball.

— Dan Quisenberry