William Butler Yeats Quotes

In Italy, there are so many significant architectural structures in history such as the Pantheon in Rome, or the Duomo.

Italy has changed. But Rome is Rome.

History is more interesting than politics.

Everything that is really Mexican is either Aztec or Spanish.

Rome will exist as long as the Coliseum does; when the Coliseum falls, so will Rome; when Rome falls, so will the world.

Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness.

Rome is one of my favourite cities in the world.

If it was in the interest of Rome to extend her conquests towards the East, and to enter on the inheritance of Alexander the Great there in all its extent, the circumstances were never more favourable for doing so than in the year 716.

I'm constantly being inspired by the old days and taking things from the past and allowing them to lift me up where I am now.

Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.

As we celebrate Black History Month we should be grateful for the achievements they made and inspired by their legacies to continue their work.

Here you have an incredibly ambitious, accomplished woman who comes up against some of the same problems that women in power come up against today. Cleopatra plays an oddly pivotal role in world history as well; in her lifetime, Alexandria is the center of the universe, Rome is still a backwater.

No laws, human or divine, prevent the Romans from seizing and destroying enemies or friends, those near them and those far off, weak or powerful, and from considering every government that does not serve them, especially monarchies, as their enemies.

Eternal Rome

Castles, palaces, cathedrals, fortresses, all speak in their various ways of the greatness and the strength of the people who built them and against whom they were built. This real greatness shines through the fake grandeur of rulers and endows these buildings with a lasting beauty.

I found Rome built of bricks; I leave her clothed in marble.

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

It's incredible that the layout of the centre of Chester, for instance, is still essentially that of the original Roman fort.

As well as our relationship with Afghanistan, I am researching the legacy of other European empires - in Africa. We think of those empires as history, but actually, they still haunt our everyday lives in the strangest of ways.

Theater is an old thing. It's thousands of years old. TV isn't. Film isn't. We're doing a really old thing.

Each generation exercises power over its successors: and each, in so far as it modifies the environment bequeathed to it and rebels against tradition, resists and limits the power of its predecessors.

Nobody remembers who was the richest toga salesman in Rome.

History is not a book, arbitrarily divided into chapters, or a drama chopped into separate acts; it has flowed forward. Rome is a continuity, called 'eternal.' What has accumulated in this place acts on everyone, day and night, like an extra climate.

Once [China] had a destiny. Once she was a conqueror. Now her greatest destiny seems to be merely to exist, to survive.

I had a mind to make a body of more or less connected legend, ranging from the large and cosmogonic, to the level of romantic fairy-story - the larger founded on the lesser in contact with the earth, the lesser drawing splendour from the vast backcloths - which I could dedicate simply to: to England; to my country. ... I would draw some of the great tales in fullness, and leave many only placed in the scheme, and sketched. The cycles should be linked to a majestic whole, and yet leave scope for other minds and hands, wielding paint and music and drama.