Famous quotes containing the words western and/or roman:
“Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.”
—Octavio Paz (b. 1914)
“Brutus. Now, as you are a Roman, tell me true.
Messala. Then like a Roman bear the truth I tell,
For certain she is dead, and by strange manner.
Brutus. Why, farewell, Portia. We must die, Messala.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)