Top Antiquity Quotes

  • The gateway to the underworld is seen as part antiquity and part theatre. Welcome to the lower depths. – Peter Ackroyd

    The gateway to the underworld is seen as part antiquity and part theatre. Welcome to the lower depths.– Peter Ackroyd

  • Compared to the unleashed forces of warfare and of faith, Mount Vesuvius was kinder to the legacy of antiquity. – Stephen Greenblatt

    Compared to the unleashed forces of warfare and of faith, Mount Vesuvius was kinder to the legacy of antiquity.– Stephen Greenblatt

  • The greatest difficulty in antiquity with that of altering the law; among the moderns, it is that of altering the manners. – Alexis de Tocqueville

    The greatest difficulty in antiquity with that of altering the law; among the moderns, it is that of altering the manners.– Alexis de Tocqueville

  • Just because a word or expression has an antiquity or was once widely used does not confer on it some special immunity – Bill Bryson

    Just because a word or expression has an antiquity or was once widely used does not confer on it some special immunity– Bill Bryson

  • Words borrowed of antiquity do lend a kind of majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes. – Ben Jonson

    Words borrowed of antiquity do lend a kind of majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.– Ben Jonson

  • The geologist takes up the history of the earth at the point where the archaeologist leaves it, and carries it further back into remote antiquity. – Bal Gangadhar Tilak

    The geologist takes up the history of the earth at the point where the archaeologist leaves it, and carries it further back into remote antiquity.– Bal Gangadhar Tilak

  • Doctrine once sown strikes deep its root, and respect for antiquity influences all men. – William Harvey

    Doctrine once sown strikes deep its root, and respect for antiquity influences all men.– William Harvey