Rome Quotes

• The Democrats planned to fiddle while Rome burned. The Republicans were going to burn Rome, then fiddle.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Republicans
  • Democrats
  • Fiddle

• The genius of America may be that it has built "the fall of Rome" into its very makeup: it is very consciously a constant work in progress, designed to accommodate and build on revolutionary change.

  

  Cullen Murphy
  • America
  • Fall
  • Genius

• It feels a little bit funny coming here and telling you guys that Linux and open source are the future of gaming. It's sort of like going to Rome and teaching Catholicism to the pope.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • Future
  • Funny
  • Teaching

• Nero did not, technically speaking, prosecute Christians for being Christian. He executed them for committing arson. True, they probably were not guilty, but that was the charge. Being a Christian was not punishable, but setting fire to Rome was. Nero’s persecution was localized. It involved only the city of Rome. Nothing indicates that Christians elsewhere in the empire suffered any consequences. Even more significant, it appears that none of Nero’s successors down to Trajan (ruled 98–117 CE) persecuted Christians. Between Nero in 64 CE and Marcus Aurelius in 177 CE, the only mention of an emperor’s intervention in Christian affairs, apart from the episode involving Trajan found in Pliny’s letters, is a letter from the emperor Hadrian that gives instructions to a local governor to conduct his trials against the Christians fairly.

  

  Bart Ehrman
  • Christians
  • Charge
  • Suffered

• It is like a party all the time; nobody has to worry about giving one or being invited; it is going on every day in the street and you can go down or be part of it from your window.

  

  Eleanor Clark
  • Party
  • Worry
  • Window

• 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
  • War
  • Rome
  • Game Of Kings

• Oh Rome! My country! City of the soul!

  

  Lord Byron
  • Country
  • Soul
  • Rome

• Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time.

  

  Richard Meier
  • Building
  • Frozen
  • Idolatry

• Twelve years ago I made a mock Of filthy trades and traffics; I considered what they meant by stock; I wrote delightful sapphics; I knew the streets of Rome and Troy, I supped with fates and Fairies-- Twelve years ago I was a boy, A happy boy at Drury's.

  

  Winthrop Mackworth Praed
  • Education
  • Boys
  • Streets

• It would be nice to go back to Rome; it's my old club. I love the fans there, and they love me, too.

  

  Mohamed Salah
  • Nice
  • Would
  • Club

• However much Rome may be in the habit of speaking and writing, for my own part, I shall give these libellers a lesson in good manners

  

  Cesare Borgia
  • Habit
  • Give
  • Lesson

• I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon, Than such a Roman.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Dog
  • Moon
  • Rome

• I was so happy when I went to Rome and I saw that the Romans eat them too, the squash blossoms. [...] No wonder I like the Italians!

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Wonder
  • Saws
  • Squash

• 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
  • Lessons
  • Realised

• Rome is ... an impossible compounding of time, in which no century has respect for any other and all hit you in a jumble at every turn.

  

  Eleanor Clark
  • Impossible
  • Century
  • Turns

• What began as a declaration of religious independence from Rome transformed over the years into a virulent doctrine of Saxon Teutonic racial superiority over

  

  Bryan Sykes
  • Independence
  • Doctrine
  • Declaration

• There's nothing new under the sun. All the roads lead to Rome. And people cannot provide it for you. I can't wake you up. You can wake you up. I can't cure you. You can cure you.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Roads
  • Rome

• Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.

  

  Moliere
  • Death
  • Rome
  • Dispensation

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

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Art
  • Rome

• Even a tourist can tell in a Roman street that he is in something and not outside of something as he would be in most cities. In Rome to go out is to go home.

  

  Eleanor Clark
  • Home
  • Cities
  • Streets

• I have always had a liking for pilgrimages, and if I had lived in the Middle Ages would have spent most of my time on the way to Rome. The pilgrims, leaving all their cares at home, the anxieties of their riches or their debts, the wife that worried and the children that disturbed, took only their sins with them, and turning back on their obligations, set out with that sole burden, and perhaps a cheerful heart.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Heart
  • Worried
  • Sins

• I went to the Conservatory of Music in school in Rome.

  

  Cecilia Bartoli
  • School
  • Rome
  • Conservatory

• 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 The Beatles
  • America
  • Roman Empire
  • Roman times

• It's not easy to play your best for 40 weeks. It happens every year, I don't play well in Rome or Hamburg -- I don't know why -- but then I play well after that.

  

  Carlos Moya
  • Play
  • Years
  • Easy

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