Historical fiction Quote by Tapio Tiihonen

“The truth is heavier than a sword.”

— Naiyem Chowdhury Rony

America is the new Roman Empire. Remember what happened to Rome.

— Eddie Izzard

Misgovernment is of four kinds, often in combination. They are: 1) tyranny or oppression, of which history provides so many well-known examples that they…

— Barbara Tuchman

The Romans have provided a lot of writers with a model for various interstellar empires, of course, and no wonder. The Roman Empire is…

— Ann Leckie

If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world during which the condition of the human race was…

— Edward Gibbon

It is the common calamity of old age to lose whatever might have rendered it desirable.

— Edward Gibbon

“When you fear nothing, you have nothing to fear”

— S.F. Chandler

I’ve been listening to how the Roman Empire fell and all I can say is, it didn’t fall nearly fast enough!”-Iggy

— James Patterson

“Right now, is not the time to strike at the Romans, but it will come, and we will all rise and wipe out the…

— Michael G. Kramer

Constantinople was the principal seat and fortress of Arianism; and, in a long interval of forty years, the faith of the princes and prelates…

— Edward Gibbon

“Some men thought about the Roman Empire at least once a day. Krys was my Roman Empire.”

— Dannika Dark

“To be clear, the Roman Empire didn’t end because everybody was having sex. No civilization was ever toppled by “too much sexy time”—except for…

— Jennifer Wright

The sectaries of a persecuted religion, depressed by fear, animated with resentment, and perhaps heated by enthusiasm, are seldom in a proper temper of…

— Edward Gibbon

Curiously, the righteous Pharisees had little historical impact, save for a brief time in a remote corner of the Roman Empire. But Jesus' disciples…

— Philip Yancey

If all the barbarian conquerors had been annihilated in the same hour, their total destruction would not have restored the empire of the West:…

— Edward Gibbon