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)

“The old world stands serenely behind the new, as one mountain yonder towers behind another, more dim and distant. Rome imposes her story still upon this late generation.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)