Rome

Tous chemins vont a'   Rome. All roads lead to Rome.

—La Fontaine,Jean de

I have been increasingly moved to wonder whether my job is a job or a racket, whether economists, and particularly economic theorists, may not be in the position that Cicero, citing Cato, ascribed to the augurs of Romeöthat they should cover their faces or burst into laughter when they met on the street.

—Knight, Frank Hyneman

And thries hadde she been at Jerusalem; She hadde passed manya straunge strem; At Rome she hadde been, and at Boloigne, In Galice at Seint-Jame, and at Coloigne.

—Chaucer, Geoffrey

The Bishop of Rome hath no jurisdiction in this Realm of England.

—Book of Common Prayer

Burn, with Athens and with Rome, A sacred city of the mind.

—Campbell, (Ignatius) Roy Dunnachie

Dum Romae consulitur, Saguntum expugnatur. While they were deliberating in Rome, Saguntum was captured.

—Livy full name Titus Livius   5917

†the Metropolis of Great-Britain, founded before the City of Rome, walled by Constantine the Great, no ways inferior to the greatest in Europe for Riches and Greatness.

—Bailey, Nathan   d.1742

On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face, Thy Naiad airs have brought me home To the glory that was Greece, And the grandeur that was Rome.

—Poe, EdgarAllan

Humorists are not happy men. Like Beachcomber or Saki orThurber they burn while Rome fiddles.

—Connolly, Cyril Vernon

How is it possible to sayan unkind or irreverential word of Rome? The city of all time, and of all the world!

—Hawthorne, Nathaniel

It was at Rome, on the fifteenth of October1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the City first started to my mind.

—Gibbon, Edward

Like Rome, Nkongsamba was built on seven hills, but there all similarity ended. Set in undulating tropical rain forest, from the air it resembled nothing so much as a giant pool of crapulous vomit on somebody's expansive unmown lawn.

—Boyd,William Andrew Murray

O fortunatam natam me consule Romam! O lucky Rome, born when I was consul!

—Cicero full name MarcusTullius Cicero

Rome seule pouvait a'   Rome ressembler, Rome seule pouvait Rome fait trembler. Only Rome can resemble Rome, And Rome alone can make Rome fall.

—Bellay,Joachim du

Randolph Churchill went into hospital†to have a lung removed. It was announced that the trouble was not 'malignant'. Seeing Ed Stanley in White's, on my way to Rome,Iremarked that it was atypicaltriumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it.

—Waugh, Evelyn Arthur StJohn

Soldati, io esco da Roma. Chi vuole continuare la guerra contro lo straniero venga con me. Non posso offrigli ne¤ onori ne¤   stipendi; gli offro fame, sete, marce forzate, battaglie e morte. Chi ama la Patria me segua. Soldiers, I'm getting out of Rome. Anyone who wants to carry on the war against the outsiders, follow me. I can offer you neither honours nor wages, I offer you hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Anyone who loves his country, follow me.

—Garibaldi, Giuseppe

All the devastation, the butchery, the plundering, the conflagrations, and all the anguish which accompanied the recent disaster at Rome were in accordance with the general practice of warfare.

—St Augustine originally Aurelius Augustinus

Oh Rome! my country! city of the soul!

—Rochdale

I paid the prices of life Standing where Rome immortal heard October's strife, A war poet whose right of honour cuts falsehood like a knife. 375

—Gurney, Ivor

Rome, believe me, my friend, is like its own Monte Testaceo, Merelya marvellous mass of broken and castaway wine-pots.

—Clough, Arthur Hugh

Rome de Rome est le seul monument, Et Rome Rome a vaincu seulement. Rome is the only monument left of Rome, And only Rome vanquished Rome.

—Bellay,Joachim du

Rome shall perishöwrite that word In the blood that she has spilt.

—Cowper,William

While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand; When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; And when Rome fallsöthe World.

—Rochdale

Rome's just a city like anywhere else. Avastly overrated city, I'd say. It trades on belief just as Stratford trades on Shakespeare.

—Wilson

How glorious it would be in the eyes of God and men, if we managed to hunt the Catholics from England, follow them to France, and, like the bold King of Sweden, rouse the Protestants in France, plant our religion in Paris by agreement or force, and go from there to Rome to chase the Antichrist and burn the town whence superstition comes.

—Leslie, David

In brief, where the Scripture is silent, the church is my text; where that speaks,'tis but my comment; where there is a joint silence of both, I borrow not the rules of my religionfrom Rome or Geneva, butthe dictates of my own reason.

—Browne, SirThomas

I am very glad that I see Rome while it yet exists; before a great number of years are elapsed, I question whether it will be worth seeing. Between the ignorance and poverty of the present Romans, every thing is neglected and falling to decay.

—Walpole, Horace, 4th Earl of Orford

We know the war prepared On every peaceful home, We know the hells declared For such as serve not Rome, The terror, threats and dread In market, hearth and field: We know when all is said We perish if we yield.

—Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard

He thought what a pity it was that all his faces were designed to express rage or loathing. Now that something had happened that really deserved a face, 14 he'd none to celebrate it with. As a kind of token, he made his Sex Life in Ancient Rome face.

—Amis, Sir Kingsley

Mille viae ducunt homines per s×cula Romam. Throughout the ages, a thousand roads lead to Rome.

—Alan of Lille also known as  'Alanus de Insulis'

It has lately been brought to my knowledge That the Ministers fully design To suppress each cathedral and college, And eject every learned divine. To assist this detestable scheme Three nuncios from Rome are come over; They left Calais on Monday by steam, And landed to dinner at Dover.

—1st Baron