Roman Quotes

• My Roman girlfriend translates bits from Italian into English. It is sublime.

  

  Francesca da Rimini
  • English
  • Girlfriend
  • Italian

• Music had always been the handmaid of the Roman liturgy.

  

  Richard Morris
  • Roman
  • Handmaid

• I have friends who are Roman Catholics. I have friends who are Lutherans.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Friends
  • Catholics
  • Roman

• [At Marc Antony's tomb:] Nothing could part us in life, but now in death we are likely to change places, you the Roman lying here in Egyptian soil, and I, helpless woman that I am, being buried in Italy.

  

  Cleopatra
  • Life
  • Death
  • Italy

• When Paul was taken in chains from his filthy Roman dungeon and beheaded at the order of the opulent madman Nero, two representatives of humanity faced off, one of the best and one of the worst. One lived for prosperity on earth, the other didn’t. One now lives in prosperity in heaven, the other doesn’t. We remember both men for what they truly were, which is why we name our sons Paul and our dogs Nero.

  

  Randy Alcorn
  • Roman
  • Dungeon
  • Beheaded

• In the “lynching era,” between 1880 to 1940, white Christians lynched nearly five thousand black men and women in a manner with obvious echoes of the Roman crucifixion of Jesus. Yet these “Christians” did not see the irony or contradiction in their actions.

  

  James Hal Cone
  • Jesus
  • Echoes
  • Crucifixion

• History is gossip that's been legitimized, and that's really the case when you get into some of the Roman historians. Wow! They'd be right at home on reality tv.

  

  Esther M. Friesner
  • History
  • Gossip
  • Historians

• The proliferation of bureaucrats and its invariable accompaniment, much heavier tax levies on the productive part of the population, are the recognizable signs, not of a great, but of a decaying society. Historians know that both phenomena were especially marked in the declining eras of the Roman Empire in the West and of its successor state, the Eastern or Byzantine Empire.

  

  William Henry Chamberlin
  • Taxes
  • Productive
  • Empires

• There is, however, an obvious problem in imposing, on the basis of eastern evidence, a flourishing Late Antiquity on the whole of the late Roman and post-Roman worlds. In the ‘bad old days’ western decline at the end of Antiquity was imposed on the eastern provinces. Now, instead of all the different regions of the empire being allowed to float free some flourishing in the fifth to eighth centuries, others not, a new and equally distorting template is being imposed westwards.

  

  Bryan Ward-Perkins
  • Problem
  • Roman
  • Late Antiquity