Quotes About Carthage

#1. Despairing Dido, queen of ancient Carthage, slain by her own hand as her magnificent lover Aeneas lifts anchor and sails away forever: this is one of the most haunting and permanent images of the classical world.

Thomas Cahill

#2. One wonders what the proper high-brow Romans ... read into the strange utterances of Lucretius or Apuleius or Tertullian, Augustine or Athanasius. The uncanny voice of Iberian Spain, the weirdness of old Carthage, the passion of Libya and North Africa.

D.H. Lawrence

#3. The order of things established by the Romans in Libya rested in substance on a balance of power between the Nomad kingdom of Massinissa and the city of Carthage.

Theodor Mommsen

#4. The reference point argument is as follows: do not compute odds from the vantage point of the winning gambler (or the lucky Casanova, or the endlessly bouncing back New York City, or the invincible Carthage), but from all those who started in the cohort. Consider

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#5. He (Cato) never gave his opinion in the Senate upon any other point whatever, without adding these words, "And, in my opinion Carthage should be destroyed." ["Delenda est Carthago."]

Plutarch

#6. Moreover, I consider that Carthage should be destroyed.

Cato The Elder

#7. That country [Carthage] was rapidly sinking into the state of barbarism from whence it had been raised by the Phoenician colonies and Roman laws; and every step of intestine discord was marked by some deplorable victory of savage man over civilized society.

Edward Gibbon

#8. Heaven, envious of our joys, is waxen pale;
And when we whisper, then the stars fall down
To be partakers of our honey talk.
(Dido, Queen of Carthage 4.4.52-54)

Christopher Marlowe

#9. Don't tell me violence doesn't solve anything. Look at Carthage.

Robert A. Heinlein

#10. Grey hoped the Church would yet be able to save England from the fate of Tyre or Carthage, the great trading nations

Thomas Hughes

#11. Violence never settles anything should be debated by the ghosts of Hitler and Stalin, with the city fathers of Carthage as referees.

Robert A. Heinlein

#12. It is a fine sunny day and great matters loom across the horizon of history. Carthage in my rearview mirror, I blend into Time.

Charles Bukowski

#13. When she was thrown into the air by a savage bull in the amphitheatre at Carthage, her first thought and action when she fell to the ground was to rearrange her dress to cover her thigh, because she was more concerned for modesty than pain.

Pope Pius XII

#14. Furthermore, I think Carthage must be destroyed.

Cato The Elder

#15. Isn't this history, and aren't we a couple of ruins?
Is Carthage Pompeii? is the pillow the bed? is the sun
What glues our heads together? O midnight! O midnight!

Kenneth Koch

#16. Black men of Carthage, Ethiopia, of Timbuktu and Alexandria gave the likes of civilization to this world

Marcus Garvey

#17. Just remember, everything should be EXACTLY as it is. Not better, not worse. - L. R. W. Lee

L.R.W. Lee

#18. Where's the course called How to Lead a Life of Crime? That's what this is about, isn't it? You've got everyone thinking this is the best school in the country, but it's really just a Hogwarts for hustlers.

Kirsten Miller

#19. Don't let ignorance win. Let love.

Nancy Garden

#20. I still believe that music is healing to some extent.

Jake Shimabukuro

#21. Remember these Romans, Hannibal. For the time being, we must ally with them. But the day will come when we will have our vengeance upon them, as we will upon the demons of Harappa. Never forget that."

The boy's voice was grave. "I'll remember.

Jennifer McKeithen

#22. When you ran out the tunnel at the old Easter Road for a derby game, you'd get a spittal right on the back of your head. They were spitting on you as you ran out, which actually helped get you going. It was some place.

Drew Busby

#23. Tommy Dorsey would walk up to you if you had a tuxedo on and make sure you didn't have on white socks.

Louie Bellson

#24. Wilt Chamberlain lied when he said he had 20,000 women.

Dennis Rodman

#25. She blinked away memories to find him staring at her with a mix of concern and horror on his face.

Chloe shivered. 'Why do you look at me like that?'

'Because you scare the hell out of me.'

She rather liked the sound of that.

Deb Marlowe

#26. But it was soon ascertained that this quaternary matter of the animal body was chemically the same in the plant, was elaborated there, and only appropriated by the animal.

Asa Gray