Roman Catholic Monarch

Famous quotes containing the words roman, catholic and/or monarch:

    “The Roman world is in collapse but we do not bend our neck.”
    —Jerome (c. 340–420)

    “That is the great end of empires before God, to be Catholic and draw nations into their Catholicism. But our empire is less and less Christian as it grows.”
    —Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)

    “A monarch must sometimes rule even himself: he who wants everything must risk very little.”
    —Pierre Corneille (1606–1684)