Rome Quotes - Page 13

• For thogh we slepe, or wake, or rome, or ryde, Ay fleeth the tyme; it nyl no man abyde.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Men

  Geoffrey Chaucer (2012). “The Canterbury Tales in Plain and Simple English (Translated)”, p.368, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Creationism: the theory that Rome was built in a day.

  Margaret Mead

  Theory, Creationism, Built

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• It depends on the consent of the people to decide whether kings or consuls or other magistrates are to be established in authority over them, and if there is legitimate cause, the people can change a kingdom into an aristocracy, or an aristocracy into a democracy, and vice versa, as we read was done in Rome.

  Robert Bellarmine

  Wisdom, Kings, People

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• Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and, in this, hasn't changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.

  John Berger

  Sex, Teenager, Believe

  John Berger (2011). “Keeping a Rendezvous”, p.101, Vintage

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• Rome ... at its most decadent, had never thought of hiring an actor to go through the motions of being an emperor while the Praetorian Guard ruled.

  Gore Vidal

  Political, Actors, Politics

  Gore Vidal (1998). “The American presidency”, Common Courage Pr

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• Rome cut off the heads of Christians and they continued to reappear one way or another. Something similar happens with Marxists.

  Augusto Pinochet

  Christian, Cutting, Way

  Augusto Pinochet's speech, November 10, 1995.

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• We stand todaybefore the awful proposition: either the triumph of imperialism and the destruction of all culture, and, as in ancient Rome, depopulation, desolation, degeneration, a vast cemetery; or, the victory of socialism.

  Rosa Luxemburg

  Victory, Triumph, Culture

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• You may talk about Sweden, you may talk about Rome,
  but Rockville Center's Floyd Patterson's home.
  A lot of people said that Floyd couldn't fight,
  but you should have seen him on the comeback night.

  Muhammad Ali

  Home, Fighting, Night

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• This book will expose the sins of the fathers and the vicious abuse of the Jewish people. 'In Defense of Israel' will shake Christian theology. It scripturally proves that the Jewish people as a whole did not reject Jesus as Messiah. It will also prove that Jesus did not come to earth to be the Messiah. It will prove that there was a 'Calvary conspiracy' between Rome, the high priest, and Herod to execute Jesus as an insurrectionist too dangerous to live. Since Jesus refused by word and deed to claim to be the Messiah, how can the Jews be blamed for rejecting what was never offered?

  John Hagee

  Christian, Jesus, Father

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• Back in Rome I did some acting lessons and I realised I loved it more than anything else I had ever done before.

  Caterina Murino

  Acting, Done, Lessons

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• And when my own Mark Antony
  Against young Caesar strove,
  And Rome's whole world was set in arms,
  The cause was,--all for love.

  Robert Southey

  Love, Causes, World

  Robert Southey (1829). “All for Love: And The Pilgrim to Compostella”, p.20

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• History is not a book, arbitrarily divided into chapters, or a drama chopped into separate acts; it has flowed forward. Rome is a continuity, called 'eternal.' What has accumulated in this place acts on everyone, day and night, like an extra climate.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Drama, Book, Night

  Elizabeth Bowen (2015). “A Time In Rome”, p.10, Random House

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• Though Rome's gross yoke Drops off, no more to be endured, Her teaching is not so obscured By errors and perversities, That no truth shines athwart the lies.

  Robert Browning

  Lying, Teaching, Errors

  Robert Browning, John Woolford, Daniel Karlin (1991). “The Poems of Browning: 1847-1861”, p.72, Pearson Education

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• In our own times, you see, an emperor came to the city of Rome, where there's the temple of an emperor, where there's a fisherman's tomb. And so that pious and Christian emperor, wishing to beg for health, for salvation from the Lord, did not proceed to the temple of a proud emperor, but to the tomb of a fisherman, where he could imitate that fisherman in humility, so that he, being thus approached, might then obtain something from the Lord, which a haughty emperor would be quite unable to earn.

  Saint Augustine

  Christian, Humility, Cities

  Saint Augustine of Hippo (2003). “Sermons III/11”, p.286

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• Rome is a very loony city in every respect. One needs but spend an hour or two there to realize that Fellini makes documentaries.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Cities, Two, Needs

  Fran Lebowitz (1994). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, Vintage

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• One who believes, as I do, that the free intellect is the chief engine of human progress, cannot but be fundamentally opposed to Bolshevism, as much as to the Church of Rome.

  Bertrand Russell

  Believe, Progress, Church

  Bertrand Russell, Richard A. Rempel, Beryl Haslam (2000). “Uncertain Paths to Freedom: Russia and China, 1919-22”, p.197, Psychology Press

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• [In ancient Rome,] why did the senate after killing Caesar turn around and give the government to his nephew? Why did France after they got rid of the king and that whole system turn around and give it to Napoleon? It's the same thing with Germany and Hitler.

  George Lucas

  Kings, Government, Giving

  "'Sith' Invites Bush Comparisons" by Ellen Crean, www.cbsnews.com. May 16, 2005.

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• I swear so soon as age will permit ... I will use fire and steel to arrest the destiny of Rome.

  Hannibal

  Destiny, Fire, Age

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• In the Classical tradition, deriving from ancient Greece and Rome, beauty was perceived as the means by which the artist captured the viewer's eye in order to engage the viewer with truth and so inspire goodness.

  John Walford

  Beauty, Mean, Eye

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• After having admired the women of Rome, say to yourself, 'I too am beautiful!' ... In you I met a real person. I need not give you any other praise.

  Margaret Fuller

  Beautiful, Real, Giving

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• The United States, or the American Republic, has a mission, and is chosen of God for the realization of a great idea. It has been chosen not only to continue the work assigned to Greece and Rome, but to accomplish a greater work than was assigned to either. In art, it will prove false to its mission if it do not rival Greece; and in science and philosophy, if it do not surpass it. In the State, in law, in jurisprudence, it must continue and surpass Rome.

  Orestes Brownson

  Art, Philosophy, Ideas

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• The Doxology ... that testimonial to the Platonic Trinity, which divided the Roman Empire into at least eighteen quarreling sects, none of whom knew what they were fighting about, and which schisms contributed to the decline and fall of this greatest of states. Rome had thrived for one thousand years with pagan gods at the helm and expired after only one hundred and fifty years under the Christian banner.

  Ruth Hurmence Green

  Christian, Fall, Fighting

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• It was like the Colosseum in Rome and we were the Christians.

  Bobby Dodd

  Christian, Lsu, Colosseum

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• Monogamy, or restrictions by law to one wife, is no part of the economy of heaven among men. Such a system was commenced by the founders of the Roman Empire... Rome became the mistress of the world, and introduced this order of monogamy wherever her sway was acknowledged. Thus this monogamic order of marriage, so esteemed by modern Christians as a hold sacrament and divine institution, is nothing but a system established by a set of robbers.

  Brigham Young

  Christian, Men, Order

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• New York is my home and I have a particular fondness for it. I think it's a place where you can generate any kind of story wonderfully. But I also would be very happy to make a film in Paris or Rome.

  Woody Allen

  New York, Home, Thinking

  Interview with Douglas McGrath, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 1, 2008.

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