| Author |
Quotes |
| Alexander Pope | See the wild Waste of all-devouring years! How Rome her own sad Sepulchre appears, With nodding arches, broken temples spread! The very Tombs now vanish'd like their dead! |
| Augustus Caesar | You cheer my heart, who build as if Rome would be eternal. |
| Alexander Pope | See the wild Waste of all-devouring years! How Rome her own sad Sepulchre appears, With nodding arches, broken temples spread! The very Tombs now vanish'd like their dead! |
| Caius Tranquillus Suetonius | Would that the Roman people had but one neck! |
| Claudian | What Roman power slowly built, an unarmed traitor instantly overthrew. |
| Gabriel Gilbert | Widow of a King-people, but still queen of the world. |
| Jean de la Fontaine | All roads lead to Rome, but our antagonists think we should choose different paths. |
| Jean de la Fontaine | Rome was not built in a day. |
| Joachim du Bellay | Now conquering Rome doth conquered Rome inter, And she the vanquished is, and vanquisher. To show us where she stood there rests alone Tiber; and that too hastens to be gone. Learn, hence what fortune can. Towns glide away; And rivers, which are still in motion, stay. |
| Mrs Felicia D Hemans | Rome, Rome, thou art no more As thou hast been! On thy seven hills of yore Thou sat'st a queen. |
| Saint Ambrose | If you are at Rome live in the Roman style; if you are elsewhere live as they live elsewhere. |
| Saint Ambrose | When I am at Rome I fast as the Romans do; when I am at Milan I do not fast. So likewise you, whatever church you come to, observe the custom of the place, if you would neither give offence to others, nor take offence from them. |
| Horatius Flaccus | Cease to admire the smoke, wealth, and noise of prosperous Rome. |
| Robert Browning | Every one soon or late comes round by Rome. |
| Robert Burton | When they are at Rome, they do there as they see done. |
| William Shakespeare | I had rather be a dog and bay the moon Than such a Roman. |
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