Rome Quotes

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  I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar

  Sports, Latin, Bad Ass

  Quoted in Suetonius, Lives of the Caesars.

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• Rome is the city of echoes, the city of illusions, and the city of yearning.

  Giotto di Bondone

  Travel, Echoes, Cities

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• I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.

  Augustus

  Latin, Cities, Bricks

  "The Twelve Caesars" by Suetonius, August 28, 2013.

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• What Roman power slowly built, an unarmed traitor instantly overthrew.

  Claudius Claudianus

  Traitor, Built, Unarmed

  "In Rufinum". II. 52. Reported in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations", p. 677, 1922.

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• Italy has changed. But Rome is Rome.

  Robert De Niro

  Italian, Changed

  "Robert De Niro: What I've Learned". Interview with Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 14, 2010.

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• If I'd lived in Roman times, I'd have lived in Rome. Where else? Today America is the Roman Empire and New York is Rome itself.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Life, New York

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• 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

  Expansion, World, Today

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• When in Rome, do as the Romans do.

  Ambrose

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• A bad peace is even worse than war.

  Tacitus

  Peace, War, Ubuntu

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• In tears I tossed my coin from Trevi's edge. A coin unsordid as a bond of love-- And, with the instinct of the homing dove, I gave to Rome my rendezvous and pledge. And when imperious Death Has quenched my flame of breath, Oh, let me join the faithful shades that throng that fount above.

  Robert Underwood Johnson

  Flames, Faithful, Tears

  Robert Underwood Johnson (1908). “Poems”

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• All roads lead to Rome, but our antagonists think we should choose different paths.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Thinking, Different, Path

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• Would that the Roman people had but one neck!

  Caligula

  People, Political, Politics

  Quoted in Suetonius, Lives of the Caesars

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• You cheer my heart, who build as if Rome would be eternal.

  Augustus

  Cheer, Heart, Would Be

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Compiled by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt and Kate Louise Roberts, p. 677, 1922.

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• Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.

  Truman Capote

  Travel, Food, Italian

  In Observer 26 Nov. 1961

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• Cease to admire the smoke, wealth, and noise of prosperous Rome.

  Horace

  Noise, Wealth, Admire

  "Carmina", III. 29. 11, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 677, 1922.

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• Rare is the union of beauty and purity.

  Juvenal

  Beauty, Beautiful, Unions

  "Satires". Book by Juvenal, X, line 297, 1890.

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• When you are at Rome, do as you see.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1872). “Sancho Panza's Proverbs, and others which occur in Don Quixote; with a aliteral English translation, notes, and an introduction by Ulick Ralph Burke”, p.37

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• Rome wasn't built in a day.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Change, Built

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.75, Dial Press

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• Would that the Roman people had but one neck!
  [Lat., Utinam populus Romanus unam cervicem haberet!]

  Suetonius

  People, Necks

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• Now conquering Rome doth conquered Rome inter, And she the vanquished is, and vanquisher. To show us where she stood there rests alone Tiber; and that too hastens to be gone. Learn, hence what fortune can. Towns glide away; And rivers, which are still in motion, stay.

  Joachim du Bellay

  Rivers, Gone, Towns

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• Yes, I have finally arrived to this Capital of the World! I now see all the dreams of my youth coming to life... Only in Rome is it possible to understand Rome.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Dream, World, Youth

  "Italian Journey". Book by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1816.

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• I would rather be the first man in a barbarian village than the second man in Rome.

  Julius Caesar

  Men, Village, Barbarians

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• Rome was not built in one day.

  John Heywood

  Progress, One Day, Cannes

  John Heywood (1562). “The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...”, p.223

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• The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall.

  Taylor Caldwell

  Peace, War, Fall

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• From the dome of St. Peter's one can see every notable object in Rome... He can see a panorama that is varied, extensive, beautiful to the eye, and more illustrious in history than any other in Europe.

  Mark Twain

  Beautiful, Eye, Europe

  Mark Twain (1871). “The Innocents Abroad; Or, The New Pilgrim's Progress ...”, p.155

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