Top 40 Caligula's Quotes
#1. No chord in populism reverberates more strongly than the notion that the robust common sense of an unstained outsider is the best medicine for an ailing polity. Caligula doubtless got big cheers from the plebs when he installed his horse as proconsul.
Alexander Cockburn
#2. Animals
fattened for your for your arena suffered less
than you in dying-yours the lawlessness
of something simple that has lost its law,
my namesake, and the last Caligula.
Robert Lowell
#3. I don't care if they respect me so long as they fear me.
Caligula
#4. Executions were meant as an exercise in frightfulness according to the theory developed by the Emperor Caligula: "Oderint dum metuant" (Let them hate us as long as they fear us).
Barbara W. Tuchman
#5. Being is good, but getting rich is better ... If the gods had only the riches of men's adoration, they would be as poor as poor Caligula.
Albert Camus
#6. All she remembered was that Caligula had planned to torture his wife to find out why he was so devoted to her. What was David's excuse, she wondered.
Edward St. Aubyn
#9. Most people imagine that a man suffers because out of the blue, Death snatches away the woman he loves. But his real suffering is less futile; it comes from the discovery that grief, too, cannot last. Even grief is vanity!
Albert Camus
#10. SO YOU ARE THE ONLY PEOPLE WHO REJECT MY DIVINITY! - Caligula, 37 CE.
Joseph Shellim
#11. Agile is not just a methodology, but a set of principles and philosophy.
Pearl Zhu
#12. The world goes on because of those who close their lips when they meet hostility from others.
Nachman Of Breslov
#13. Caligula wished that the Roman people had but one neck that he might cut it off, and as I read this letter I am afraid that for a moment I was capable of wishing the same thing concerning the laboring class of America.
Edward Bellamy
#14. Let them hate me, so long as they fear me!
Caligula
#15. While she couldn't deliver a comic routine to save her life, she had a well-developed ability to look blank and confused, and she found to her surprise that she enjoyed the laughter.
Starhawk
#16. I pressed past the outer branches of the lilacs and found a small and relatively open space in the middle. Then I waited.
Jim Butcher
#17. Knowledge was like candy: you never turned it down, especially if you didn't have to work too hard to get it.
Robert Liparulo
#18. ...the guy might be a cold-blooded amoral sadistic killer and a cartload of tiles short of a watertight roof, but there was nothing wrong with his intelligence. [Caligula in Marcus Corvinus's eyes]
David Wishart
#19. Caligula - And what has Nature done for you?
Scipio - It consoles me for not being. Ceasar.
Caligula - Really? And do you think Nature could console me for being Ceasar?
Scipio - Why not? Nature has healed worse wounds than that.
Albert Camus
#20. I fell in love with Caligula and now I'm married to Calvin.
Jean Stafford
#21. I scorn their hatred, if they do but fear me
Caligula
#22. Would that the Roman people had but one neck!
Caligula
#24. I wanted her to see that the only life worth living is a life full of love; that loss is always part of the equation; that love and loss conjoined are the best opportunity we get to live fully, to be our strongest, our most compassionate, our most graceful selves.
Pam Houston
#25. So much for the Emperor; the rest of this history must deal with the Monster.
- IV:22
Suetonius
#26. There are strict rules in these matters, I find.' 'There were strict rules in the arena, too. Every gladiator had to have a sword, oh yes; but if it was Caligula he was to fight with, the sword was made of lead.
Patrick O'Brian
#27. As for Gaius, he has no more chance of becoming emperor than of riding a horse dry-shod across the Gulf of Baiae.
Suetonius
#28. That the crowd always likes a holiday is a common saying, but when the whole year becomes one long holiday, and nobody has time for attending to his business, and pleasure becomes compulsory, then it is a different matter.
Robert Graves
#29. Remember that Caligula was not a cause, he was an effect.
Stan Goff
#30. A Caligula, or a Yuri Vorbarra, can rule a long time, while the best men hesitate to do what is necessary to stop him, and the worst ones take advantage.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#31. I have existed from the morning of the world and I shall exist until the last star falls from the night. Although I have taken the form of Gaius Caligula, I am all men as I am no man and therefore I am a God.
Caligula
#32. I always have problems with seeing how our new stuff relates to our old stuff - I'm better at seeing long lines in other people's music than in my own.
Bent Saether
#33. Channel 4 are a great bunch of people to work with and the crew are lovely. Working at ITV was like being in the court of Caligula.
Paul O'Grady
#34. What can be salvaged from your life? A pain
that gently darkens over heart and brain,
a fairy's touch, a cobweb's weight of pain,
now makes me tremble at your right to live.
Robert Lowell
#35. The only bright corner of my heart, where nothing seemed to hurt, was where Grey was. When I thought of him, I could see a future where I could be happy again, where I might not be just like I was before the Crimson Fever, but at least a version of myself that felt whole.
Kirby Howell
#36. If contemporary artists sincerely seek to be original, unique, and new, they should begin by disregarding the notions of originality, individuality, and innovation: they are the cliches of our time.
Octavio Paz
#37. This is the worst administration since Caligula.
John Dingell
#38. The day I am unable to handle more than one woman is the day I die. Do you take me for a feeble old dotard? I'm a true son of Venus and Bacchus! - Caligula
Jessica Nyman
#39. Wait until Tommy Lasorda meets the Lord and finds out He's wearing pinstripes
Gaylord Perry
#40. The spirit of dance is an amazing thing. When the body and the spirit meet, it's a good thing.
Chita Rivera
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