Ancient Rome Quotes
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Ancient Rome Quotes & Sayings
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I had come to Rome in chains, but I would leave Rome a queen.
— Stephanie Dray
Fit men walking around and bathing, it would be just like being in Ancient Rome [on a footballers dressing room
— John Barrowman
They say the eyes are the apertures to the soul. If that is so, I feared Locusta's soul was far darker than even Nero's.
— Katlyn Charlesworth
Rome versus the Visigoths, Ancient Egypt versus the Hyksos, Aztecs versus the Spaniards.
— Margaret Atwood
In the long run, the fall of one civilization is very much like the fall of another. Only the land remains.
— Morgan Llywelyn
I write about times and places I would visit in a time machine, like ancient Rome or the Wild West.
— Caroline Lawrence
Ancient Rome was as confident of the immutability of its world and the continual expansion and improvement of the human lot as we are today.
— Arthur Erickson
In an empire as unruly as Rome, it is quite easy to get away with something as thespian as murder.
— Katlyn Charlesworth
Every day you live is a lesson in itself.
— T.A. Uner
The dumb masses were always the easiest to persuade. The bread-and-circus concept had worked in ancient Rome, and it still worked today.
— James Garmisch
Hunting, bathing, gaming, laughing: that's living (venari lavare ludere ridere occest vivere).
— Mary Beard
I found out later than even an education and a cushioned introduction to power cannot make a great leader.
— Fredrik Nath
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[Christians] are people such as the world has not seen hitherto, and their teaching is of a kind that the world has not heard up to this time ...
— Henryk Stanczyk
These pastoral-poet guys with their bleating goats and oaten pipes can stuff their phalaecean hendecasyllabics where the sun don't shine.
— David Wishart
The causes which destroyed the ancient republics were numerous; but in Rome, one principal cause was the vast inequality of fortunes.
— Noah Webster
Even freed men will do what they must in Rome.
— Katlyn Charlesworth
I'd say it was a pleasure rowing with you, only it wasn't.
— Jennifer McKeithen
there are men who are ancient and determined enemies of the Church of Rome who live in perpetual hope of its destruction
— Glenn Cooper
The hermit, without access to the news of the day, owes it to himself to be up to date on the doings of ancient Rome.
— Sylvain Tesson
Ancient Rome was a violent place.
— James Purefoy
Oblige me by taking away that knife. I can't look at the point of it. It reminds me of Roman history.
— James Joyce
OVATION, n. n ancient Rome, a definite, formal pageant in honor of one who had been disserviceable to the enemies of the nation. A lesser "triumph."
— Ambrose Bierce
Nothing makes sense in Rome.
— Katlyn Charlesworth
Football is controlled violence, but it is violence, which people have loved to watch since the gladiatorial contests in ancient Rome.
— Michael Mandelbaum
War may be the game of kings, but, like the games at ancient Rome, it is generally exhibited to please and pacify the people.
— Arthur Helps
I at least know what I am and do not try to hide it from the rest of the world. Do you know what you are? Because you can only be one thing at a time.
— Katlyn Charlesworth
Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?
— Will Rogers