#roman

I was thinking, "So, I’m Emperor, am I? What nonsense! But at least I'll be able to make people read my books now. ↗

— Robert Graves

#claudius #emperor #robert-graves #roman #roman

Wine gives one 'ideas,' whereas champagne gives one 'strategies. ↗

— Roman Payne

#champage #idea #ideas #power #roman-payne

Cu ce rămîn dacă alung amintirile? Nu rămîn cu nimic. ↗

— Octavian Paler

#roman #viata-pe-un-peron #roman

In our romantic groves I adored her like a divinity. ↗

— Anne Boyd

#divinity #groves #her #i #like

You can't create experience, you undergo it. ↗

— Albert Camus

#experience

I know most people use their phones to tell time, but there's something very romantic and beautiful about a timepiece. ↗

— Padma Lakshmi

#beautiful #i #know #most #people

Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#distorts #fall #illness #impossible #love

I'm not a romantic. In life I didn't have much experience with romance. ↗

— Ang Lee

#i #life #much #romance #romantic

The ancient Roman code belongs to a class of which almost every civilised nation in the world can show a sample, and which, so far as the Roman and Hellenic worlds were concerned, were largely diffused over them at epochs not widely distant from one another. ↗

— Henry James Sumner Maine

#ancient #another #belongs #civilised #class

The most superficial student of Roman history must be struck by the extraordinary degree in which the fortunes of the republic were affected by the presence of foreigners, under different names, on her soil. ↗

— Henry James Sumner Maine

#degree #different #different names #extraordinary #foreigners