English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:

Tacitus Quotes

They have plundered the world, stripping naked the land in their hunge? they are driven by greed, if their enemy be rich; by ambition, if poo? They ravage, they slaughter, they seize by false pretenses, and all of this they hail as the construction of empire. And when in their wake nothing remains but a desert, they call that peace.

Tacitus

About author

Related Authors

Topics

Quotes currently Trending

The really essential factors of success in any undertaking are money and opportunity, and as a rule, the man who can make the first can make the second. Dorothy L. Sayers
Italo Svevo quote: "Misunderstanding women is a clear sign of scant virility."
Misunderstanding women is a clear sign of scant virility. Italo Svevo
If only you’d remember before ever you sit down to write that you’ve been a reader long before you were ever a writer. You simply fix that fact in your mind, then sit very still and ask yourself, as a reader, what piece of writing in all the world Buddy Glass would most want to read if he had his heart’s choice. The next step is terrible, but so simple I can hardly believe it as I write it. You just sit down shamelessly and write the thing yourself. I won’t even underline that. It’s too... J. D. Salinger
Words do not express thoughts very well. they always become a little different immediately they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish. And yet it also pleases me and seems right that what is of value and wisdom to one man seems nonsense to another. Herman Hesse
Francois Rabelais quote: "Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective..."
Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words. Francois Rabelais
Jonathan Lethem quote: "Fantastic writing in English is kind of disreputable, but..."
Fantastic writing in English is kind of disreputable, but fantastic writing in translation is the summit. Jonathan Lethem
Is anarchism desirable? Well, who does not seek freedom? What man, unless willing to declare himself in bondage, would care to call any control agreeable? Think about it! Johann Most
Virginia Woolf quote: "Women's rights, that antediluvian topic."
Women's rights, that antediluvian topic. Virginia Woolf
Charlie Crist quote: "You can trust Charlie Crist."
You can trust Charlie Crist. Charlie Crist
Actually, when I was in elementary school, I saw a saxophone. A band came to my school, and I saw this guy get up and play this solo. And I said, 'Oh man, what is that! That must be fantastic!' Ornette Coleman
Cathy Guisewite quote: "Food, love, career, and mothers, the four major guilt groups."
Food, love, career, and mothers, the four major guilt groups. Cathy Guisewite
Sean Kinney quote: "We've mastered the art of making pretty music that makes you..."
We've mastered the art of making pretty music that makes you want to die. Sean Kinney
History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure. Thurgood Marshall
John Crowley quote: "In silvergreen rainy April they went down to Glastonbury on..."
In silvergreen rainy April they went down to Glastonbury on the long straight roads ... John Crowley
To read is to withdraw. To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less... selfish. Alan Bennett