Roman Britain Quotes

#1. I have a special "ah, here I am again, I know exactly what they are going to have for breakfast" feeling when I get back into Roman Britain, which is very nice.

Rosemary Sutcliff

#2. Dover's cliffs call to mind the Roman invasion; the Battle of Britain; our proximity to, yet difference from, mainland Europe; and international trade and exploration, both fair and exploitative.

Julian Baggini

#3. In a nation of frightened dullards there is a sorry shortage of outlaws, and those few who make the grade are always welcome:

Hunter S. Thompson

#4. After a war of about 40 years, undertaken by the most stupid [Claudius], maintained by the most dissolute [Nero], and terminated by the most timid [Domitian] of all the emperors, the far greater part of the island [of Britain] submitted to the Roman yoke.

Edward Gibbon

#5. I write human stories. I write about people. Not as a product of their environment. But from the stance that everybody is made of the same thing.

Cecelia Ahern

#6. The freedom of thought and expression is one of the most sacred rights in this country.

Eliot Engel

#7. Bookaholics are the ones who start to feel uncomfortable and uneasy in another person's house, and suddenly realize there are no bookshelves or magazines lying around. People who only own a telephone book and their high school yearbooks scare us.

Robert Lee Hadden

#8. And I thought -not for the first time- what a true and simple pleasure it was, to be inside and sated when the cold and the stalkless dark spread out across the world.

Kate Morton

#9. We sleepwalk through our lives, because how could we live if we were always this awake?

Terry Pratchett

#10. Ralph played baseball and liked to read. His favorite color was green, and he absolutely loved ice cream. He was a pretty typical rabbit, except for one thing: Ralph Rabbit hated carrots!

Simon Knight

#11. When we recognise the virtues, the talent, the beauty of Mother Earth, something is born in us, some kind of connection; love is born.

Nhat Hanh

#12. I think these ladies, that group of 130 women, are going to make a difference in what goes on down there, because they're going to hold the locals' feet to the fire.

Lynn Westmoreland

#13. This weird thing happens when you're in a movie that has some level of success. People start offering you all kinds of things, and they just expect you to do them because they'll be good for your career. It's not about the project's integrity or anything like that.

Kristen Stewart

#14. I always have the idea in mind that when Botticelli was an old man nobody cared about him because he was out of fashion. Imagine, Botticelli was out of fashion!

Norbert Bisky

#15. If you are not scared to lose me, you sure as hell do not deserve me.

Saif Samir

#16. The dark cloud, which had been cleared by the Phoenician discoveries, and finally dispelled by the arms of Caesar, again settled on the shores of the Atlantic, and a Roman province [Britain] was again lost among the fabulous Islands of the Ocean.

Edward Gibbon

#17. Oh, when shall Britain, conscious of her claim, Stand emulous of Greek and Roman fame? In living medals see her wars enroll'd, And vanquished realms supply recording gold?

Alexander Pope

#18. The first draft doesn't have to be perfect, but it does have to be written!

Heather Robinson

#19. You can not have comedy unless people are behaving badly. You can't have it.

Keegan-Michael Key

#20. Too far down that rabbit hole, wrapped in an unhealthy addiction,

V. Theia

#21. He held her face in his hands and his gaze warmed her sadness. "I don't care how you got here. I'm just happy you were born." He rubbed noses with hers. "Real happy.

Selena Robins