Rome Quotes - Page 19

• Rome is the city above all cities which loses most of its meaning to those who do not bring to it some historical sense, a decent knowledge of art, and a good amount of time. Rome therefore is particularly disturbing to an American.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Art, Cities, Historical

  Clare Boothe Luce (1941). “European spring”

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• Rome is the Great Beast of atheism and materialism, adoring nothing but itself. Israel is the Great Beast of religion. Neither one nor the other is likable. The Great Beast is always repulsive

  Simone Weil

  Israel, Atheism, Materialism

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.30, Psychology Press

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• Rome, if you do not wish me to betray you, make enemies that I can hate!

  Pierre Corneille

  Betrayal, Hate, Enemy

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• The universe has no prince or king that it [Rome] would consider equal to its humblest citizen.

  Pierre Corneille

  Kings, Democracy, Citizens

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• The UEFA Cup is now what we focus on. It's a huge game for us in Rome and it's all to play for.

  Mark Viduka

  Games, Play, Focus

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• Great cycles of history began with vigorous cultures awakening to the needs of children, but collapsing with frayed family ties. Have we failed to learn lessons which Ancient China, Greece and Rome learned too late - about day care and death houses for old folks? Do we without protest accept accelerating preschool and nursing home cultures which warn ominously that the earlier you institutionalize your child, the earlier he will institutionalize you!

  Raymond S. Moore

  Children, Home, School

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• The American who has been confined, in his own country, to the sight of buildings designed after foreign models, is surprised on entering York Minster or St. Peter's at Rome, by the feeling that these structures are imitations also,--faint copies of an invisible archetype.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Country, Sight, Feelings

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.66, Harvard University Press

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• Rome is no longer in Rome, it is here where I am.

  Pierre Corneille

  Exile

  "Sertorius". Book by Pierre Corneille, act III, scene I, 1662.

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• Ibsen is like this room where we are sitting, with all the tables and chairs. Do I care whether you have twenty or twenty-five links on your chain? Hedda Gabler, Nora and the rest: it is not that I want! I want Rome and the Coliseum, the Acropolis, Athens; I want beauty, and the flame of life.

  Eleanora Duse

  Beauty, Flames, Tables And Chairs

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• Rome has betrayed itself. It knew the truth and chose violence, it knew humaneness and it chose tyranny.

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Betrayal, Betrayed, Violence

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• The greater part of our best years has been passed for our generation in these two great worldconvulsions. All will be changed after this war, which spends in one month more than nations earned before in yearsthere is no more security in our time than in those of the Reformation or the fall of Rome.

  Stefan Zweig

  War, Fall, Two

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• Drive the women from the bed just as you drove them from the choir; a eunuch sings in Rome, and the priests masturbate.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Women, Bed, Choir

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• The poor are always ragged and dirty, in very picturesque clothes, and on their poor shoes lies the earth of the Lacustrine period. And yet what a privilege it is to be even a beggar in Rome!

  M. E. W. Sherwood

  Lying, Dirty, Clothes

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• Rome, like Washington, is small enough, quiet enough, for strong personal intimacies; Rome, like Washington, has its democratic court and its entourage of diplomatic circle; Rome, like Washington, gives you plenty of time and plenty of sunlight. In New York we have annihilated both.

  M. E. W. Sherwood

  Strong, New York, Circles

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• Rome ... seems to me the place in the world where one can best dispense with happiness.

  Fanny Kemble

  Happiness, World, Seems

  Fanny Kemble (1891). “Further Records, 1848-1883: A Series of Letters”

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• I foresee the time when the painter will paint that scene, no longer going to Rome for a subject; the poet will sing it; the historian record it; and, with the Landing of the Pilgrims and the Declaration of Independence, it will be the ornament of some future national gallery, when at least the present form of slavery shall be no more here. We shall then be at liberty to weep for Captain Brown. Then, and not till then, we will take our revenge.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Revenge, Independence, Liberty

  Henry David Thoreau (2007). “My Thoughts Are Murder to the State: Thoreau's Essays on Political Philosophy”, p.57, David M Gross

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• I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so-called History is. How many times must we say Rome, and Paris, and Constantinople! What does Rome know of rat and lizard? What are Olympiads and Consulates to these neighboring systems of being? Nay, what food or experience or succor have they for the Esquimaux seal-hunter, or the Kanaka in his canoe, for the fisherman, the stevedore, the porter?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Paris, Doe, Hunters

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• Animation had been used only for things like King Kong and the destruction of cities, which was very popular in the 1950s. I got tired of destroying cities. I destroyed New York, I destroyed San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge, Rome, and Washington. I was looking for a new outlet, and I came across the Sinbad legends.

  Ray Harryhausen

  Kings, New York, Tired

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Internationally, ancient Rome and Greece cultures are just so fascinating. I don't think audiences will ever tire of it, because it's such an advanced society.

  Jeremy Bolt

  Thinking, Culture, Ancient

  Source: collider.com

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• I went to Europe to live in 1961. I'd never have written Julian if it hadn't been for the sequestered life that I led in Rome and the classical library at the America Academy.

  Gore Vidal

  Europe, America, Library

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There was a dream that was Rome. You could only whisper it. Anything more than a whisper and it would vanish, it was so fragile.

  Richard Harris

  Dream, Fragile

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• Be ever more convinced that your guardian angel is really present, that he is ever at your side. St. Frances of Rome always saw him standing before her, his arms clasped at his breast, his eyes uplifted to Heaven; but at the slightest failing, he would cover his face as if in shame, and at times, turn his back to her.

  John Bosco

  Eye, Angel, Your Side

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• My historical reading of the situation is that these great monolithic empires developed, Rome, Turkey, and so forth, and they always break down when enough people, and it's always the young, the creative, and minority groups drop out and go back to a tribal form.

  Timothy Leary

  Reading, Turkeys, People

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• It is poverty's speech that seeks us out the most.
  It is older than the oldest speech of Rome.
  This is the tragic accent of the scene.

  Wallace Stevens

  Speech, Poverty, Scene

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “Selected Poems”, p.283, Knopf

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• Take heed of thinking. The farther you go from the church of Rome, the nearer you are to God.

  Henry Wotton

  Thinking, Church, Heed

  In Izaak Walton 'Sir Henry Wotton', in Christopher Wordsworth 'Ecclesiastical Biography' (1810) vol. 5, p. 44; first published in Walton's first edition of 'Reliquiae Wottonianae' (1651)

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