Quotes of: Roman-empire Keyword

The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.

Voltaire

Edward Gibbon, in his classic work on the fall of the Roman Empire, describes the Roman era's declension as a place where "bizarreness masqueraded as creativity.

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Frank Pentangeli: Those were the great old days,you know... And we was like the Roman Empire... The Corleone family was like the Roman Empire...

The Godfather: Part II

The Sixties are now considered a historical period, just like the Roman Empire.

Dave Barry

My last days at MGM were like the fall of the Roman Empire in fast motion.

Joseph Barbera

I am utterly struck how, 300 years after his execution, Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire.

Peter Jennings

The cornerstone of the Roman legionnaires' astonishing fighting spirit can be attributed to their training.

The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians

Never base motivation or fear, entirely.

The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians

The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof.

Thomas Hobbes

I had always thought, for 'Roman Empire,' I would love to do the death of Marcus Aurelius in the snow. One morning I woke up, and it was really snowing.

Anthony Mann

If overconfidence can cause the Roman Empire to fall, I ought to be able to get a ground ball.

Dan Quisenberry

Cultures reflect the interactions of mixed populations.

The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians

The way to a landowner's heart was to tax gently.

The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians

It’s spring now, and I was just thinking that I haven’t been in love since the fall. The fall of the Roman Empire.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

The world survived the fall of the Roman empire and will no doubt outlast our own so much more splendid civilisation.

James Buchan

It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn't hear the barbarians coming.

Garrison Keillor

All comparisons between America's current place in the world and anything legitimately called an empire in the past reveal ignorance and confusion about any reasonable meaning of the concept empire, especially the comparison with the Roman Empire.

Donald Kagan

The factor that made him so powerful was also his greatest liability.

The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians

Rhino-mounted Bantu shock troops could have overthrown the Roman Empire. It never happened.

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

He was a stylist, not a thinker. He spent time trying to say things in as complicated a way as possible.

The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians

Author describes one monarch's impressive table but conveys a contemporary's observation, "the weightiest thing at dinner was the conversation".

The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians