Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pierre Corneille

Rome alone can resist Rome.

Charles Caleb Colton

Genius, when employed in works whose tendency it is to demoralize and to degrade us, should be contemplated with abhorrence rather than with admiration; such a monument of its power, may indeed be stamped with immortality, but like the Coliseum at Rome, we deplore its magnificence because we detest the purposes for which it was designed.

English Proverbs

When I go to Rome, I fast on Saturday, but in Milan I do not. Do you also follow the custom of whatever church you attend, if you do not want to give or receive scandal.

Angela Carter

If the Barbarians are destroyed, who will we then be able to blame for the bad things?

Susan Sontag

[O]ne person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing.

Tacitus

Who the first inhabitants of Britain were, whether natives or immigrants, remains obscure; one must remember we are dealing with barbarians.