Cicero Quote by William Bolitho

“Well, good luck to you both. Rome will be the winner whoever is the victor'. Cicero began to move away but then checked himself,…

— Robert Harris

“With a philosophical flourish Cato throws himself upon his sword”

— Herman Melville

“To my shame, the name he gave was not one that conjured any feeling in me: not fear, nor revulsion, nor horror at a…

— M.C. Scott

“Throw that dreary man Cicero out of the window, and request the divine Virgil (with the utmost love and respect) to take a seat…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

This was the noblest Roman of them all. All the conspirators, save only he,Did that they did in envy of Caesar;He only, in a…

— William Shakespeare

I have been…moved to wonder whether my job is a job or a racket, whether economists, and particularly economic theorists, may not be in…

— Frank Knight

“It scared him a little. He had once heard, and was inclined to credit, that a loss of interest in living marked the true…

— Robert Heinlein

“His success was due in part to his ability to spread his own paranoia, the fear that there was always somebody about to attack.”

— Joshua Davis

“Cicero often asked me to perform small services for Milo during that campaign. For example, I went back through our files and prepared lists…

— Robert Harris

“Cats never listen. They’re dependable that way; when Rome burned, the emperor’s cats still expected to be fed on time.”

— Seanan McGuire

“Stalking from the President's House towards the Servants' Lodge was an enormous cat, as broad as he was tall, with ginger hair fluffed out…

— Cormac Millar

“For he (Cato) gives his opinion as if he were in Plato's Republic, not in Romulus' cesspool.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero