Barbarians Quote by Robin Lane Fox

Alexander was not the first Greek to be honoured as a god for political favour.

— Robin Lane Fox

If you look back in history, as the barbarians were invading the gates of Rome, people were consulting fortunetellers and worrying about the end…

— Matt Taibbi

The Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is that civilization…

— Will Durant

And as a writer, one of the things that I've always been interested in doing is actually invading your comfort space. Because that's what…

— Stephen King

Life is like invading Russia. A blitz start, massed shakos, plumes dancing like a flustered henhouse; a period of svelte progress recorded in ebullient…

— Julian Barnes

The evil lot who did that thing on September 11 did it because they wanted to create a war between America and Islam. And…

— Billy Bragg

There comes a terrible moment to many souls when the great movements of the world, the larger destinies of mankind, which have lain aloof…

— George Eliot

They have to convert our agenda into something aggressive. Two guys wanting to be happy together are invading their marriages. Helping a kid who's…

— Barney Frank

This industry [photography], by invading the territories of art, has become art's most mortal enemy.

— Charles Baudelaire

War is a form of really bad manners, in a strange way. Invading a country I think is just the worst possible manners. 'You're…

— Graydon Carter

“To talk about something is the first step toward invading it.”

— David Burr Gerrard

I know people socially who live in countries where the wealth gap is more extreme than it is in America, and they live with…

— Jamie Johnson