Sack Rome

Famous quotes containing the words sack and/or rome:

“There is nothing but roguery to be found in villainous man,
yet a coward is worse than a cup of sack with lime in it.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“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.”
—Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)