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Nero Quotes

After a war of about 40 years, undertaken by the most stupid [Claudius], maintained by the most dissolute [Nero], and terminated by the most timid [Domitian] of all the emperors, the far greater part of the island [of Britain] submitted to the Roman yoke. Edward Gibbon
Mrs. Rachel Bruner: [trying to goad Wolfe] I thought you were afraid of nobody and nothing. Nero Wolfe: [unruffled] I can dodge folly without backing into fear. Rex Stout
Rex Stout quote: "I try to know what I need to know. I make sure to know what I..."
I try to know what I need to know. I make sure to know what I want to know.(Nero Wolfe) Rex Stout
You know yourself what you are worth in your own eyes; and at what price you will sell yourself. For men sell themselves at various prices. This is why, when Florus was deliberating whether he should appear at Nero's shows, taking part in the performance himself, Agrippinus replied, 'Appear by all means.' And when Florus inquired, 'But why do not you appear?' he answered, 'Because I do not even consider the question.' For the man who has once stooped to consider such questions, and to reckon... Epictetus
I, Tiberius Claudius Drusus Nero Germanicus This-that-and-the-other (for I shall not trouble you yet with all my titles) who was once, and not so long ago either, known to my friends and relatives and associates as "Claudius the Idiot", or "That Claudius", or "Claudius the Stammerer", or "Clau-Clau-Claudius" or at best as "Poor Uncle Claudius", am now about to write this strange history of my life; starting from my earliest childhood and continuing year by year until I reach the fateful point... Robert Graves
More people saying what they believe would be a great improvement. Because I often do I am unfit for common intercourse.-Nero Wolfe in "Blood Will Tell Rex Stout
Robert Asprin quote: "They never let you live it down. One little mistake!"- Nero"
They never let you live it down. One little mistake!"- Nero Robert Asprin
It strikes me, sir, that you are nearing the point where even a grateful American might tell you to go to the devil.-Nero Wolfe to an FBI Agent Rex Stout
Youth is terrible: it is a stage trod by children in buskins and a variety of costumes mouthing speeches they've memorized and fanatically believe but only half understand. And history is terrible because it so often ends up a playground for the immature; a playground for the young Nero, a playground for the young Bonaparte, a playground for the easily roused mobs of children whose simulated passions and simplistic poses suddenly metamorphose into a catastrophically real reality. Milan Kundera
Langston Hughes quote: "As much as they loved Negroes, Neroes didn't seem to love..."
As much as they loved Negroes, Neroes didn't seem to love Michael and Anne. Langston Hughes
Rex Stout quote: "Only the man that knows to little, knows too much." Nero Wolfe"
Only the man that knows to little, knows too much." Nero Wolfe Rex Stout
Rex Stout quote: "Women don't require motives that are comprehensible to my..."
Women don't require motives that are comprehensible to my intellectual processes.(Nero Wolfe) Rex Stout
John Foxe quote: "The first persecution of the Church took place in the year 67,..."
The first persecution of the Church took place in the year 67, under Nero, the sixth emperor of Rome. John Foxe
Walter Bagehot quote: "You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real..."
You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor. Walter Bagehot

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