Rome Quotes - Page 15

• To the sun Rome owes its underlying glow, and its air called golden - to me, more the yellow of white wine; like wine it raises agreeability to poetry.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Wine, Air, Yellow

  Elizabeth Bowen (2015). “A Time In Rome”, p.58, Random House

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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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• 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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• [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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• Neither an enlightened philosophy, nor all the political wisdom of Rome, nor even the faith and virtue of the Christians availed against the incorrigible tradition of antiquity. Something was wanted, beyond all the gifts of reflection and experience - a faculty of self government and self control, developed like its language in the fibre of a nation, and growing with its growth.

  Lord Acton

  Christian, Philosophy, Reflection

  "The History of Freedom in Christianity". Lord Acton's Address Delivered to the Members of the Bridgnorth Institute, acton.org. May 28, 1877.

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• Rome, believe me, my friend, is like its own Monte Testaceo, Merelya marvellous mass of broken and castaway wine-pots.

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  Believe, Wine, Broken

  'Amours de Voyage' (1858) canto 1, pt. 2

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• Who set Rome on fire? The man we must admire. For killing his wife, and taking the life of mother and brother and so many others, while plucking his damnable lyre.

  Paul L. Maier

  Mother, Brother, Men

  Paul L. Maier (1991). “The Flames of Rome”, p.298, Kregel Publications

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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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• Nowadays when a poet with one privately printed book can have his next three years taken care of by a Guggenheim fellowship, a Kenyon Review fellowship, and the Prix de Rome, it is hard to remember what chances the poet took in that small-town world, how precariously hand-to-mouth his existence was. And yet in one way the old days were better; [Vachel] Lindsay after a while, by luck and skill, got far more readers than any poet could get today.

  Randall Jarrell

  Book, Taken, Hands

  "The Third Book of Criticism". Book by Randall Jarrell, "Fifty Years of American Poetry", p. 299, 1969.

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• Ancient Rome was a violent place.

  James Purefoy

  Ancient, Violent, Ancient Rome

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• And I myself, in Rome, heard it said openly in the streets, "If there is a hell, then Rome is built on it.

  Martin Luther

  Hell, Said, Heard

  Martin Luther (1966). “Church and ministry”

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• 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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• Knowledge of Rome must be physical, sweated into the system, worked up into the brain through the thinning shoe-leather. ... When it comes to knowing, the senses are more honest than the intelligence. Nothing is more real than the first wall you lean up against sobbing with exhaustion. Rome no more than beheld (that is, taken in through the eyes only) could still be a masterpiece in cardboard - the eye I suppose being of all the organs the most easily infatuated and then jaded and so tricked. Seeing is pleasure, but not knowledge.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Travel, Wall, Real

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• Art still followed where Rome's eagles flew.

  Alexander Pope

  Art, Eagles, Flew

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• Rome is an astonishment!

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Astonishment

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (2016). “Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe: Compiled From Her Letters and Journals by Her Son Charles Edward Stowe”, p.234, Library of Alexandria

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

  Margaret Mead

  Theory, Creationism, Built

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• The names of great painters are like passing-bells: in the name of Velasquez you hear sounded the fall of Spain; .in the name of Titian, that of Venice; in the name of Leonardo, that of Milan; in the name of Raphael, that of Rome. And there is profound justice in this, for in proportion to the nobleness of the power is the guilt of its use for purposes vain or vile; and hitherto the greater the art, the more surely has it been used, and used solely, for the decoration of pride or the provoking of sensuality.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Fall, Pride

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• In Job and the Psalms we shall find more sublime ideas, more elevated language, than in any of the heathen versifiers of Greece or Rome.

  Isaac Watts

  Bible, Jobs, Ideas

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• Those have not lived who have not seen Rome.

  Margaret Fuller

  Margaret Fuller, Arthur Buckminster Fuller (1874). “Woman in the 19th century, and kindred papers relating to the sphere, condition, and duties of woman”, p.427

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• In the second century of the Christian era, the empire of Rome comprehended the fairest part of the earth, and the most civilized portion of mankind.

  Edward Gibbon

  Christian, Book, Earth

  Edward Gibbon (1871). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.1

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• Our own country furnishes antiquities as ancient and durable, and as useful, as any; rocks at least as well covered with lichens,and a soil which, if it is virgin, is but virgin mould, the very dust of nature. What if we cannot read Rome or Greece, Etruria or Carthage, or Egypt or Babylon, on these; are our cliffs bare?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Country, America, Rocks

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.193, Delphi Classics

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• No slave system has ever been able to continue to function on the slaves provided by its own biological reproduction because the rate of human reproduction is too slow and the expense from infant mortality and years of unproductive upkeep of the young make this prohibitively expensive. This relationship is one of the basic causes of the American Civil War, and was even more significant in destroying ancient Rome.

  Carroll Quigley

  War, Years, Upkeep

  Carroll Quigley (1979). “The evolution of civilizations: an introduction to historical analysis”, Liberty Fund Inc.

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• Long before I was ordained a priest, I knew that my church was the most implacable enemy of this republic. My professors ... had been unanimous in telling me that the principles and laws of the Church of Rome were absolutely antagonistic to the principles which are the foundation stones of the Constitution of the United States of America.

  Charles Chiniquy

  Law, America, Long

  Charles Chiniquy (1985). “Fifty Years in the Church of Rome: The Life Story of Pastor Chiniquy, who was for Twenty-five Years a Priest in the Roman Catholic Church”, p.283, Chick Publications

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• Let Toronto become Milan. Montreal will always be Rome.

  Jean Drapeau

  Toronto, Montreal, Milan

  "House Beautiful", Vol. 133, (p. 216), 1991.

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