Amusement Quote by Saul Bellow

Internationally, ancient Rome and Greece cultures are just so fascinating. I don't think audiences will ever tire of it, because it's such an advanced…

— Jeremy Bolt

They were a society whose chief vocations were to entertain and be entertained ...

— Anna Godbersen

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

There is an obvious connection, on the declining Roman empire's bread and circuses model, between political enthusiasm for public spectacles and the periods when…

— Iain Sinclair

In Rome people seem to love with more zest, murder with more imagination, submit to creative urges more often, and lose the sense of…

— Letitia Baldrige

The man who first brought ruin upon the Roman people was he who pampered them by largesses and amusements.

— Plutarch

“Roman history also demands a particular sort of imagination. In some ways, to explore ancient Rome from the twenty-first century is rather like walking…

— Mary Beard

How often has not the parallel been drawn and the golden age of the Roman Empire, when the external brilliancy of life likewise dazzled…

— Abraham Kuyper

But I think theatre in a repressive society is an immensely exciting event and theatre in a luxurious old, affluent old society like ours…

— Janet Suzman

“In our self-government, family government and circles of influence are we building and promoting a culture of life-giving edification or pursuing a death-oriented culture…

— Tim Yarbrough

We will get back to the earlier, instinctive and less inhibited nature of theatre. Today, spectators are passive, but Elizabethan, Greek and Roma; theatre…

— Sam Wanamaker