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“I’m as constant as Constantinople. Now that’s some Istanbul shit.”

— Jarod Kintz

“In those girls I found my Rome, my Paris, my Constantinople.”

— George Saunders

“Constantinople had been changing for sometime before the Young Turks got hold of it. It would continue to change long after they had gone.”

— Charles Emmerson

“Seems like we own the day! Now die like a good Christ! - Boniface de Monteferret, ON THE WALLS OF CHRIST As Constantinople falls.”

— Earl Devere

“The Ottoman Turks were about to capture Constantinople, unleashing on Italy a migration of fleeing scholars with bundles of manuscripts containing the ancient wisdom…

— Walter Isaacson

“Like most Istanbul Turks I had little interest in Byzantium as a child. I associated the word with spooky, bearded, black-robed Greek Orthodox priests,…

— Orhan Pamuk

“Here Comes Everybody.”

— James Joyce

“Across the broken apses and shattered naves of a hundred ruined Byzantine churches, the same smooth, cold, neo-classical faces of the saints and apostles…

— William Dalrymple

When you look at Istanbul, from Byzantium to the present day, it's striking how it has always been a city of the people, with…

— Bettany Hughes

“doors wide open. Two days ago I was nearly lost in a Turkish ship of war, owing to the”

— Gretta Curran Browne

“to come on hereafter, was what”

— Benjamin Franklin

“Come, come, whoever you are, wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving, it doesn't matter. Ours is not a caravan of despair. Come, even if you…

— Rumi