Barbarians Quote by stephen fry

“It is always necessary to remain barbarians, because it is the barbarians who always win.”

— Irwin Shaw

“And confronting these men, wild and terrible as we agree that they were, there were men of quite another kind, smiling and adorned with…

— Victor Hugo

“There is the familiar figure of Orosius, defending the barbarians with the argument that when the Roman empire was founded it was founded in…

— Eileen Power

“And now, what will become of us without the barbarians? Those people were a kind of solution.”

— Cavafy

“I do not feat that the barbarians shall invade. I fear that we shall become barbarians before they do.”

— Joseph Chaikinrles MacKenzie

“And now, what’s going to happen to us without barbarians? They were, those people, a kind of solution.”

— C.P. Cavafy

“I do not fear that the barbarians shall invade, but that we should become barbarians before they do.”

— Joseph Charles MacKenzie

“Barbarian Horde This will be lot and lots of wild-screaming people advancing under a cloud of dust in order to devestate more civilized parts.…

— Diana Wynne Jones

“Barbarians are all alike... sit up half the night to discuss anything a Roman says.”

— Rudyard Kipling

“The barbarian loves his own pride, and hates, or disbelieves in, the pride of others. I will be a civilized being, I will love…

— Karen Blixen

The barbarian chieftain, who defended his country against the Roman invasion, driven to the remotest extremity of Britain, and stimulating his followers to battle,…

— John Quincy Adams

“Even their stable societies oscillated between banquets and barbarism.”

— Gregory Benford