Seanan McGuire Quotes

In the second century of the Christian era, the empire of Rome comprehended the fairest part of the earth, and the most civilized portion of mankind.

That Rome was comparatively great and wealthy is certain.

Rome was a poem pressed into service as a city.

Roman history was kind of unavoidable where I was growing up. It was everywhere - all the place names and ruins and forts. My dad's a history buff, and I spent a lot of time on Hadrian's Wall. I became fascinated by the idea of what was so terrifying up there that the Romans built a 60-mile long, 30ft high stone wall to keep it out?

In their eyes as they pass is not hatred, not excitement, not despair, not the tonic of their victory - there is just the simple expression of being here as though they had been here doing this forever, and nothing else.

You can say we're trying too hard or that we didn't try hard enough, but we're not trying at all; we're just doing what we do.

The Romans, we are told, were by nature a peculiarly warlike race.

We are fascinated with our own history, and we are fascinated with the Romans because they were millennia ago, and yet they still capture our imagination because they were actually so similar to us. They were very civilized. They had a very similar political system.

Ancient Rome was a violent place.

We were all Romans once, I guess.

Let Rome’s art tell the empire’s story.

I love Rome and the way that you can wander around and find something interesting around every street corner. You can smell the history.

I've been obsessed with Romans since I was a child.

Pompeii is taught at schools in England, and, for a young boy, the combination of the Roman Empire and a volcano was irresistible.

Julius Caesar's wife, who said to Julius, We are not naming our son Sid! Never got a dinner!

When things are taking their ordinary course, it is hard to remember what matters.

The only thing that should astonish us is that anything can yet astonish us.

Rome ... at its most decadent, had never thought of hiring an actor to go through the motions of being an emperor while the Praetorian Guard ruled.

I know not why any one but a school boy in his declamation would whine over the Commonwealth of Rome, which grew great only by the misery of the rest of mankind. The Romans, like others, as soon as they were rich, grew corrupt; and in their corruption sold the lives and freedoms of themselves and of one another.

The mind becomes accustomed to things by the habitual sight of them, and neither wonders nor inquires about the reasons for things it sees all the time.

I am a Roman citizen.

Rome had Caesar, a man of remarkable governing talents, although it must be said that a ruler who arouses opponents to resort to assassination is probably not as smart as he ought to be.

Methinks I will not die quite happy without having seen something of that Rome of which I have read so much.

While the Romans languished under the ignominious tyranny of eunuchs and bishops, the praises of Julian were repeated with transport in every part of the empire, except in the palace of Constantius.

In Rome, the emperor sat in a special part of the Colosseum called the Caesarian Section.