Ancient rome Quote by Wallace Breem

“Lord Bacchus, can you hear me? Nod if you can hear me." Bacchus dropped his hands and nodded. "You have never killed a Druid…

— Kevin Hearne

“He saw himself and his fathers crowding round their ancestral shrine waiting in vain for worship and sacrifice and finding nothing but ashes of…

— Chinua Achebe

“I carry within me the heart of a warrior, the mind of a pharaoh, the soul of a goddess and the wisdom of my…

— grace gegenheimer

“Sicarius padded toward the exit, his soft black boots silent on the tile floor. He paused in the doorway and glanced at the backs…

— Buroker Lindsey

“It is not easy to soothe the immortal gods from their vengeance.”

— Sulari Gentill

“We are weary of ourselves, and have dreamed a king. If now the gods have sent us one, let us not ask him to…

— Mary Renault

“Look at me. This is nobility in a man: to bear what falls from the gods and not say No.”

— Anne Carson

“Posthumous: It sounds like the name of a Roman gladiator, an unconquered gladiator. At least that’s what poor Posthumous would like to believe. It…

— Roberto Bolaño

“We covered them with stones and made the proper sacrifices, then decided to honor our masters’ spirits by finishing their journey for them.” Hedgehog-hair…

— Esther M. Friesner

“Ah,the pure shine of a few moments of heroism, high courage, and derring-do! In its light we genuflect before the Hero, we bask inthe…

— Oakley Hall

“A tomb now suffices him for whom the world was not enough. [ Alexander's tombstone epitaph ]”

— Alexander the Great

“When they entered they found, hanging upon the wall, a splendid portrait of their master as they had last seen him, in all the…

— Oscar Wilde