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Famous Quotes about Rome
Rome will exist as long as the Coliseum does; when the Coliseum falls, so will Rome; when Rome falls, so will the world. ~ Saint Venerable Bede
Rome is a little bit different. There is something in Rome, incredible, like in a Fellini movie. Everybody’s screaming and laughing very loud. ~ Alessandro Michele
Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere see moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar. ~ George Eliot
Yes, I have finally arrived to this Capital of the World! I now see all the dreams of my youth coming to life… Only in Rome is it possible to understand Rome. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The fall of Rome seemed unthinkable to people at the time but inevitable to historians reflecting upon it with the benefit of context. ~ Mary Pilon
Rome is a place almost worn out by being looked at, a city collapsing under the weight of reference. ~ Graham Joyce
The thing I love about Rome is that it has so many layers. In it, you can follow anything that interests you: town planning, architecture, churches, or culture. It’s a city rich in antiquity and early Christian treasures, and just endlessly fascinating. There’s nowhere else like it. ~ Claire Tomalin
All roads indeed lead to Rome, but theirs also is a more mystical destination, some bourne of which no traveler knows the name, some city, they all seem to hint, even more eternal. ~ Richard Le Gallienne
Going around Rome, you can find beauty because, quite simply, Rome is very beautiful. But the beauty of the people is sometimes harder to discover. ~ Paolo Sorrentino
From the dome of St. Peter’s one can see every notable object in Rome… He can see a panorama that is varied, extensive, beautiful to the eye, and more illustrious in history than any other in Europe. ~ Mark Twain
Rome is not like any other city. It’s a big museum, a living room that shall be crossed on one’s toes. ~ Alberto Sordi
She had always been fond of history, and here [in Rome] was history in the stones of the street and the atoms of the sunshine. ~ Henry James
When in Rome, live as the Romans do; when elsewhere, live as they live elsewhere. ~ Saint Ambrose
Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time. ~ Richard Meier
If we could be reborn wherever we chose, how crowded Rome would be, populated by souls who had spent their previous lives longing to inhabit a villa on the Janiculum Hill. ~ Francine Prose
In Rome, I particularly love the history, churches, sculptures, and architecture and the fact that you can walk along a tiny cobbled street and turn the corner to find the Trevi Fountain. ~ Philip Treacy
Italy will never be a normal country. Because Italy is Italy. If we were a normal country, we wouldn’t have Rome. We wouldn’t have Florence. We wouldn’t have the marvel that is Venice. ~ Matteo Renzi
In the evening we came upon the Coliseum when it was already twilight. When one looks at it, all else seems little. The edifice is so vast, that one cannot hold the image of it in one’s soul: in memory, we think it smaller and then return to it again to find it every time greater than before. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Oddly enough, I’m not religious but I’m also very fond of St Peter’s in Rome. When I’m there, I always know there’s a good meal not far away. ~ Jonathan Pryce
If I’m in Rome for only 48 hours, I would consider it a sin against God to not eat cacio e pepe, the most uniquely Roman of pastas, in some crummy little joint where Romans eat. I’d much rather do that than go to the Vatican. That’s Rome to me. ~ Anthony Bourdain
The beauty of Rome is that you can wander into a pizzeria just about anywhere and get a real Italian pizza that’s thankfully worlds away from the Super Supreme I used to order at Pizza Hut as a kid. ~ Ed Stoppard
Rome is one enormous mausoleum. There, the past lies visibly stretched upon his bier. There is no today or tomorrow in Rome; it is perpetual yesterday. ~ Thomas Bailey Aldrich
I’m sure when they partied when Rome was burning, that was a really great party. ~ Adam McKay
Ancient Rome was as confident of the immutability of its world and the continual expansion and improvement of the human lot as we are today. ~ Arthur Erickson
Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what’s going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate? ~ Will Rogers
Ancient Rome was a violent place. ~ James Purefoy
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Her smile, I’m sure, burnt Rome to the ground. ~ Mark Z. Danielewski
I thought I knew everything when I came to Rome, but I soon found I had everything to learn. ~ Edmonia Lewis
When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome. ~ Miguel de Cervantes
How is it possible to say an unkind or reverential word of Rome? The city of all time, and of all the world! ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Rome is one of my favourite cities in the world. ~ Erin Heatherton
To Rome, for everything. ~ Cervantes
Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness. ~ Livy
Men did not love Rome because she was great. She was great because they had loved her. ~ J.K Chesterton
I found Rome built of bricks; I leave her clothed in marble. ~ Caesar Augustus
Rome is the city of echoes, the city of illusions, and the city of yearning. ~ Giotto di Bondone
Oh, Rome! my country! city of the soul! ~ Lord Byron
Italy has changed. But Rome is Rome. ~ Robert De Niro
Rome holds my psyche in balance. Whenever I’m there, it’s like a holiday. ~ Giambattista Valli
A fool is one who admires other cities without visiting Rome. ~ Francesco Petrarca
Rome was a poem pressed into service as a city. ~ Anatole Broyard
Rome was not built in a day. ~ Proverb
In Rome, it seems as if there were so many things which are more wanted in the world than pictures. ~ George Eliot
Rome is magic. ~ Maria Grazia Cucinotta
I am a sucker for those old traditional places, and Rome is as good as it gets, particularly when you throw in Italian food. ~ Roger Federer
You look at passers-by in Rome and think, ‘Do they know what they have here?’ ~ Frank McCourt
Rome was great in arms, in government, in law. ~ Goldwin Smith
All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome. ~ Tacitus
I think there are two cities in the world – New York and Rome. ~ Frank McCourt
Rome is built on ruins and is quote breathtaking, what makes you think you can’t be too?
You fall in love with Rome very slowly, little by little, but if it happens, it’ll be for a lifetime. ~ Nikolaj Gogol
Rome knew love, better than I ever could, so I let the city take her hand, and followed close behind, picking up the pieces of her melting heart. ~ Atticus
Funny Rome Quotes
They say Rome wasn’t built in a day, but I wasn’t on that particular job. ~ Brian Clough
Life is a combination of magic and pasta. ~ Federico Fellini
Rome is a very loony city in every respect. One needs but spend an hour or two there to realize that Fellini makes documentaries. ~ Fran Lebowitz
I try to look at the Pantheon every chance I get since I am here in Rome after all, and an old proverb says that anyone who goes to Rome without seeing the Pantheon “goes and comes back an ass.’ ~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Some More Roma Quotes
How wonderful, to walk half-drunk with a Lemonsoda on a muggy night like this around the gleaming slate cobblestones of Rome with someone’s arm around me. ~ André Aciman
Rome seems a comfort to those with the ambitious soul of an Artist or a Conqueror. ~ Pietros Maneos
I sometimes fancy,” said Hilda, on whose susceptibility the scene always made a strong impression, “that Rome–mere Rome–will crowd everything else out of my heart. ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
There’s one thing that I like about Rome that was stated by Napoleon: that from sublime to pathetic is only one step away. And in Rome there’s a constant shifting between sublime and pathetic. ~ Paolo Sorrentino
In ‘Roma,’ I wanted to get across the idea that underneath Rome today is ancient Rome. So close. I am always conscious of that, and it thrills me. Imagine being in a traffic jam at the Coliseum! Rome is the most wonderful movie set in the world… As was the case with many of my film ideas, it was inspired by a dream. ~ Federico Fellinia
I like things that are kind of eclectic when one thing doesn’t go with another. That’s why I love Rome. The town itself is that way. It’s where Fascist architecture meets classic Renaissance, where the ancient bangs up against the contemporary. It has a touch of everything. ~ Giambattista Valli
Although the modern image of the imperial city is dominated by the ruins of the Coliseum and the Forum, the economic life of ancient Rome centered on side streets filled with apartments, shops, and horrea. ~ William J. Bernstein
There’s a power struggle going on across Europe these days. A few cities are competing against each other to see who shall emerge as the great 21st-century European metropolis. Will it be London? Paris? Berlin? Zurich? Maybe Brussels, the center of the young union? They all strive to outdo one another culturally, architecturally, politically, fiscally. But Rome, it should be said, has not bothered to join the race for status. Rome doesn’t compete. Rome just watches all the fussing and striving, completely unfazed. I am inspired by the regal self-assurance of this city, so grounded and rounded, so amused and monumental, knowing she is held securely in the palm of history. I would like to be like Rome when I am an old lady. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Rome was mud and smoky skies; the rank smell of the Tiber and the exotically spiced cooking fires of a hundred different nationalities. Rome was white marble and gilding and heady perfumes; the blare of trumpets and the shrieking of market-women and the eternal, sub-aural hum of more people, speaking more languages than Gaius had ever imagined existed, crammed together on seven hills whose contours had long ago disappeared beneath this encrustation if humanity. Rome was the pulsing heart of the world. ~ Marion Zimmer Bradley
Rome is a city wherein every corner you have a reminder of the sacred world. That’s why I have sacred music, minimalist sacred music, which is also music I like because, at the end of the day, that’s what I want to do.”
~ Paolo Sorrentino
All the bad things that have ever happened to me have always happened in Rome. ~ Richard Burton
Rome Instagram Captions
There’s no place like Rome.
I really, really like Rome.
I instantly fell in love with Rome.
Ah! Rome. This is what dreams are made of.
All roads lead to Rome.
The road has finally led me to Rome.
Sometimes, you just can’t find the right words to describe Rome.
Came to Rome for the sights, stayed for the gelato.
Dear Rome. We’re better together.
Stepping back in time (ruins).
That’s Amore.
History is calling, so I must go.
Current status: never leaving.
Eat pasta, love, pray.
People don’t believe in love at first sight. I do, now that I’ve been to Rome.
Fulfilled my lifelong dream of riding a Vespa.
An eternal love for The Eternal City.
In crust we trust.
From Rome, with love.
I’ve got a crush on Rome.
La Dolce Vita.
Let’s cancel our plane tickets home and stay in Rome forever.
Life’s short. Get the double scoop of gelato.
Living like Lizzie McGuire.
Meet me under the stars in Rome.
My happy place is anywhere with pizza, wine, and sunshine.
There’s no time to be bored in a world as beautiful as this.
Ready to move to Rome full-time.
Rome more, worry less.
Rome is always a good idea.
These #views are worth waking up early for.
Wishing for you #trevi.
When in Rome, do as the Romans do!
When in Rome, no rules apply.
All roads lead to espresso.
Sing to me Paolo.
Living on cloud wine.
When in Rome, I know I’m home.
Rome Jokes and Puns
Arch you glad you’re in Rome?
Rome is a-Flora-ble!
Just Roma-n around.
Rome-ing around the world.
Rome Sweet Home
We built this city on rock and Rome.
What a Rome-antic city.
Dress warm at the Vatican, it’s a bit gold.
I’m a bit Rome-sick.
Caught in a bad Rome-ance.
It’s impossible to ruin the view of the Colisseum.
How did the Roman Empire get divided? With Caesars.
How do Romans cut their hair? With a pair of Caesars!
Honey, I’m Rome!
I’m so glad we came to Rome toga-ther.
Before I got to Rome, I was on the Vergil of a nervous breakdown.
There are many marbleous statues in Rome, but so many people take them for granite.
Isn’t it Ovid-ious how beautiful this city is?
Are you Ceres-ly not going to visit the Colosseum?
In Rome, there are too many Mars in the streets!
Did Juno, Rome is a pretty cool city?
Here’s a penne for your thoughts.
Leave some Rome in your suitcase for souvenirs!
My favorite movie is Sistine Candles.
I’m having Trevi saying ‘goodbye’ to Rome.
Rome stole a pizza my heart.
Rome has turned me into a gelat-ho.
Sending you olive my love from Rome!
My favorite Roman food is Trastavere.
I chianti-ven believe how beautiful Rome is!
So sad to say Diana-ra to Rome!
My Apollo-gies for the cheesy Rome puns.
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