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“Rome has been called the "Sacred City": - might not our Oxford be called so too? There is an air about it, resonant of joy and hope: it speaks with a thousand tongues to the heart: it waves its mighty shadow over the imagination: it stands in lowly sublimity, on the "hill of ages"; and points with prophetic fingers to the sky: it greets the eager gaze from afar, "with glistering spires and pinnacles adorned," that shine with an internal light as with the lustre of setting suns; and a dream and a glory hover round its head, as the spirits of former times, a throng of intellectual shapes, are seen retreating or advancing to the eye of memory: its streets are paved with the names of learning that can never wear out: its green quadrangles breathe the silence of thought.”
“Rome has betrayed itself. It knew the truth and chose violence, it knew humaneness and it chose tyranny.”
“Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness.”
“Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time.”
“Rome has seven sacraments, but the Protestant churches, being less prosperous, feel that they can afford only two, and these of inferior sanctity.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)
“Rome holds my psyche in balance. Whenever I'm there, it's like a holiday.”
“Rome in the ages, dimmed with all her towers, / Floats in the mist, a little cloud at tether.”
Source: Selected Poems of Alice Meynell
“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.”
Source: Rome and a Villa
“Rome is a place almost worn out by being looked at, a city collapsing under the weight of reference.”
“Rome is a very loony city in every respect. One needs but spend an hour or two there to realize that Fellini makes documentaries.”
Source: The Fran Lebowitz Reader
“Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.”
Source: Italian Days
“Rome is burning, Jesus says. Drop your fiddle, change your life and come to Me. Let go of the good days that never were - a regimented church you never attended, traditional virtues you never practiced, legalistic obedience you never honored, and a sterile orthodoxy you never accepted. The old era is done. The decisive inbreak of God has happened.”
“Rome is everybody's memory.”
“Rome is magic, it's like being in Hollywood. But the difference between Hollywood and Rome is that here you don't have just the movie business. The movie business is so little, so you also have the choice to hang out with people who do different kinds of business.”
“Rome is no longer in Rome, it is here where I am.”
“Rome is not outside me, but inside me.. Her feverish sweetness, her tragic countryside, her own beauty and harmony, all these are mine, for my thought and my work.”
“Rome is one of my favourite cities in the world.”
“Rome is stately and impressive; Florence is all beauty and enchantment; Genoa is picturesque; Venice is a dream city; but Naples is simply -- fascinating.”
“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.”
Source: European spring
“Rome is the city of echoes, the city of illusions, and the city of yearning.”
“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”
Source: Gravity and Grace
“Rome is the one great spiritual organisation which is able to resist and must, as a matter of life and death, the progress of science and modern civilization”
Source: Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews
“Rome lifts you up but won't let you settle down - it turns you into a bird without a nest.”
Source: Scorched Earth
“Rome remained free for four hundred years and Sparta eight hundred, although their citizens were armed all that time; but many other states that have been disarmed have lost their liberties in less than forty years.”
“Rome remained great as long as she had enemies who forced her to unity, vision, and heroism. When she had overcome them all she flourished for a moment and then began to die.”
Source: Caesar and Christ: The Story of Civilization
“Rome seems a comfort to those with the ambitious soul of an Artist or a Conqueror.”
Source: Poems of Blood and Passion
“Rome should sometimes intervene and say this or that is not in conformity with the Catholic faith. Theologians should understand that. Some theologians go too far, for example, reducing the Catholic faith to a universal philosophy.”
“Rome swallowed things and made them Roman.”
Source: Pandora
“Rome tolerated every abominable practice, embraced every foul idea in the name of freedom and the rights of the common man. Citizens no longer carried on deviant behavior in private, but pridefully displayed it in public. It was those with moral values who could no longer freely walk in a public park without having to witness a revolting display. What happened to the public censors who protected the majority of citizenry from moral decadence? Did freedom have to mean abolishing common decency? Did freedom mean anyone could do anything they wanted anytime they wanted, without consequences?”
“Rome took all the vanity out of me, for after seeing the wonders there, I felt too insignificant to live, and gave up all my foolish hopes in despair."
"Why should you, with so much energy and talent?"
"That's just why, because talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing. I won't be a common-place dauber, so I don't intend to try anymore.”
Source: Little Women
“Rome took all the vanity out of me; for after seeing the wonders there, I felt too insignificant to live, and gave up all my foolish hopes in despair.”
Source: Greatest Christmas Novels in One Volume: Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, Heidi, The Romance of a Christmas Card, The Little City of Hope, The Wonderful Life, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Peter Pan…
“Rome used to have good public art in ancient times. There is nothing like West of Rome in Italy.”
“Rome was a poem pressed into service as a city.”
“Rome was an evolutionary society, not a revolutionary one. Constitutional crises tended to lead not to the abolition of previous arrangements but to the accretion of new layers of governance.”
Source: Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician
“Rome was great in arms, in government, in law.”
Source: Lectures and Essays
“Rome was in the most dangerous inclination to change on account of the unequal distribution of wealth and property, those of highest rank and greatest spirit having impoverished themselves by shows, entertainments, ambition of offices, and sumptuous buildings, and the riches of the city having thus fallen into the hands of mean and low-born persons. So that there wanted but a slight impetus to set all in motion, it being in the power of every daring man to overturn a sickly commonwealth.”
Source: Greek and Roman Lives
“Rome was mud and smoky skies; the rank smell of the Tiber and the exotically spiced cooking fires of a hundred different nationalities. Rome was white marble and gilding and heady perfumes; the blare of trumpets and the shrieking of market-women and the eternal, sub-aural hum of more people, speaking more languages than Gaius had ever imagined existed, crammed together on seven hills whose contours had long ago disappeared beneath this encrustation if humanity. Rome was the pulsing heart of the world.”
Source: The Forest House
“Rome was not built in a day Opposition will come your way But the harder the battle you see It's the sweeter the victory”
“Rome was not built in one day; But one day Rome was built.”
“Rome was not built in one day.”
Source: The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...
“Rome was so mighty that it could not fall. It had to vanish in a cloud, like so many of the mythical heros of antiquity, and to receive its apotheosis among the stars before men became fully aware that it had vanished from the earth!”
“Rome wasn’t built in a day, but the cheap, knockoff snow globes of Rome probably were. Anything real and genuine takes time, while anything phony makes it obvious you haven’t put in the work.”
Source: Study, Sleep, Repeat: 130 Tips to Schedule Your College Life
“Rome wasn't built in a day, and neit'er was Syracuse.”
“Rome wasn't built in a day, and the internet is our new Rome”
“Rome wasn't built in a day, and we won't replace fossil fuels with clean energy based on the events of a single week, either. But the important thing to remember is that, once they happen, clean energy victories are irreversible. No one will tear down wind farms because they are nostalgic for fracking in our watersheds. And nobody will pull down their solar panels because they miss having mercury in their tuna or asthma inhalers for their kids. Because once we leave fossil fuels behind, we are never going back.”
“Rome wasn't built in a day, but man, did they get a break on the labor.”
“Rome wasn't built in a day.”
Source: Cat's Cradle: A Novel
“Rome wasn't built in a day. And neither was your body.”
“Rome wasn't built in A.D.”
“Rome était, en l’an 268 de son ère35, ce qu’est à peu près la France l’an IV de la République. Mais prêcha-t-on alors le dogme du silence et de la patience ? de la prudence et de la constance ?.... Non. Cassius Viscellinus se
présente. Il porte la main droit à la plaie. Quoique patricien, c’est lui qui le premier propose la loi agraire. « Il est souverainement injuste, s’écrie-t-il, que le peuple Romain, si courageux, et qui expose tous les jours sa vie pour étendre les bornes de la République, languisse dans une honteuse pauvreté, pendant que le Sénat et les patriciens jouissent seuls du fruit de ses conquêtes... Plébéiens !, ajoute-t-il, il ne tient qu’à vous de sortir tout à coup de la
misère où vous a réduit l’avarice des patriciens. » Ce discours, dit Vertot, fut accueilli aux
transports les plus vifs du peuple. Il n’y eut que l’infâme Appius et ses suppôts (les Louvet, les Réal et les Méhée de ce temps-là),
qui traitèrent Cassius de royaliste, comme les Appius d’aujourd’hui me traitent.”
Source: Le Manifeste des Plébéiens