Quotes About The Fall Of The Roman Empire

#1. Edward Gibbon, in his classic work on the fall of the Roman Empire, describes the Roman era's declension as a place where bizarreness masqueraded as creativity.

Edward Gibbon

#2. In retrospect, the highlight of dating him had been free coffee and a particularly compelling discussion on the fall of the Roman Empire.

Richelle Mead

#3. My last days at MGM were like the fall of the Roman Empire in fast motion.

Joseph Barbera

#4. The world survived the fall of the Roman empire and will no doubt outlast our own so much more splendid civilisation.

James Buchan

#5. We must now face the difficult task of moving towards a single economy, a single political entity .. For the first time since the fall of the Roman Empire we have the opportunity to unite Europe.

Romano Prodi

#6. We were essentially torn from the Gaian womb, thrust into the birth canal of history, and expelled sometime around the fall of the Roman Empire into the cold hard world of modern science, existentialism and all the rest of it.

Terence McKenna

#7. I'm really enamored with the idea of a reformed society, and I've always been fascinated with the Dark Ages as well as the power vacuum that followed the fall of the Roman Empire.

Victoria Aveyard

#8. No doubt this works well enough for The Tale of Benjamin Bunny or The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, but I can readily see that 'The Selfish Gene' on its own, without the large footnote of the book itself, might give an inadequate impression of its contents.

Richard Dawkins

#9. Whatever I haven't accomplished biologically obviously wasn't all that imperative.

Alex Bosworth

#10. Even in past years, when I wasn't in the Super Bowl, I wished I was.

Brett Favre

#11. Football players should always remember there's a whole lot more to life.

Steve Largent

#12. I've been listening to how the Roman Empire fell and all I can say is, it didn't fall nearly fast enough!-Iggy

James Patterson

#13. Every historian has a vested interest. "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" was not about the Roman but the British empire. What price the truth?

Peter Greenaway

#14. I trust my mum with anything. If I have a problem, my mum is always the first person I go to.

Richard Fleeshman

#15. If overconfidence can cause the Roman Empire to fall, I ought to be able to get a ground ball.

Dan Quisenberry

#16. I want to catch Mr Whitlam with his pants down.

Malcolm Fraser