CALIGULA FAMOUS QUOTES
#1. Let them hate me, so long as they fear me! – Author: Caligula
#2. Well, as he brews, so shall he drink. – Author: Ben Jonson
#3. I think that people have to just go with their gut and follow their passion if they’re photographers. – Author: Carol Friedman
#4. All she remembered was that Caligula had planned to torture his wife to find out why he was so devoted to her. What was David’s excuse, she wondered. – Author: Edward St. Aubyn
#5. Please stop trifling. – Author: Albert Camus
#6. In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that combination of feudalism and commercial capitalism which we know as mercantilism. – Author: C.L.R. James
#7. Most people imagine that a man suffers because out of the blue, Death snatches away the woman he loves. But his real suffering is less futile; it comes from the discovery that grief, too, cannot last. Even grief is vanity! – Author: Albert Camus
#8. SO YOU ARE THE ONLY PEOPLE WHO REJECT MY DIVINITY! – Caligula, 37 CE. – Author: Joseph Shellim
#9. No chord in populism reverberates more strongly than the notion that the robust common sense of an unstained outsider is the best medicine for an ailing polity. Caligula doubtless got big cheers from the plebs when he installed his horse as proconsul. – Author: Alexander Cockburn
#10. Caligula wished that the Roman people had but one neck that he might cut it off, and as I read this letter I am afraid that for a moment I was capable of wishing the same thing concerning the laboring class of America. – Author: Edward Bellamy
#11. Being is good, but getting rich is better … If the gods had only the riches of men’s adoration, they would be as poor as poor Caligula. – Author: Albert Camus
#12. My eyes burn with tears, and I’m so tired. So tired of holding back everything I feel and want to say. So tired of being someone I’m not and making mistakes that I didn’t have any fun making. – Author: Penelope Douglas
#13. Every leader needs to remember that a healthy respect for authority takes time to develop. It’s like building trust. You don’t instantly have trust, it has to be earned. – Author: Mike Krzyzewski
#14. Gandhi, who went to Wendy’s and asked, Where’s the belief? Never got a dinner! – Author: Red Buttons
#15. In Varenka, she realized that one has but to forget oneself and love others, and one will be calm, happy, and noble. – Author: Leo Tolstoy
#16. …the guy might be a cold-blooded amoral sadistic killer and a cartload of tiles short of a watertight roof, but there was nothing wrong with his intelligence. [Caligula in Marcus Corvinus’s eyes] – Author: David Wishart
#17. Each exists for but a short time, and in that time explore but a small part of the whole universe. – Author: Stephen Hawking
#18. Caligula – And what has Nature done for you?
Scipio – It consoles me for not being. Ceasar.
Caligula – Really? And do you think Nature could console me for being Ceasar?
Scipio – Why not? Nature has healed worse wounds than that. – Author: Albert Camus
#19. I fell in love with Caligula and now I’m married to Calvin. – Author: Jean Stafford
#20. Channel 4 are a great bunch of people to work with and the crew are lovely. Working at ITV was like being in the court of Caligula. – Author: Paul O’Grady
#21. Would that the Roman people had but one neck! – Author: Caligula
#22. So much for the Emperor; the rest of this history must deal with the Monster.
– IV:22 – Author: Suetonius
#23. There are strict rules in these matters, I find.’ ‘There were strict rules in the arena, too. Every gladiator had to have a sword, oh yes; but if it was Caligula he was to fight with, the sword was made of lead. – Author: Patrick O’Brian
#24. As for Gaius, he has no more chance of becoming emperor than of riding a horse dry-shod across the Gulf of Baiae. – Author: Suetonius
#25. That the crowd always likes a holiday is a common saying, but when the whole year becomes one long holiday, and nobody has time for attending to his business, and pleasure becomes compulsory, then it is a different matter. – Author: Robert Graves
#26. Remember that Caligula was not a cause, he was an effect. – Author: Stan Goff
#27. A Caligula, or a Yuri Vorbarra, can rule a long time, while the best men hesitate to do what is necessary to stop him, and the worst ones take advantage. – Author: Lois McMaster Bujold
#28. I scorn their hatred, if they do but fear me – Author: Caligula
#29. I always go into a bit of a funk when the days get shorter and there’s not enough sunlight. – Author: Wynonna Judd
#30. I have existed from the morning of the world and I shall exist until the last star falls from the night. Although I have taken the form of Gaius Caligula, I am all men as I am no man and therefore I am a God. – Author: Caligula
#31. What can be salvaged from your life? A pain
that gently darkens over heart and brain,
a fairy’s touch, a cobweb’s weight of pain,
now makes me tremble at your right to live. – Author: Robert Lowell
#32. With post like yours, who needs enemies?” he said. – Author: Rachel Joyce
#33. This is the worst administration since Caligula. – Author: John Dingell
#34. Naggers always know what they are doing. They weigh up the risks, then they go on and on and on until they get what they want or until they get punched. – Author: Jools Holland
#35. The day I am unable to handle more than one woman is the day I die. Do you take me for a feeble old dotard? I’m a true son of Venus and Bacchus! – Caligula – Author: Jessica Nyman
#36. Animals
fattened for your for your arena suffered less
than you in dying-yours the lawlessness
of something simple that has lost its law,
my namesake, and the last Caligula. – Author: Robert Lowell
#37. I don’t care if they respect me so long as they fear me. – Author: Caligula
#38. Executions were meant as an exercise in frightfulness according to the theory developed by the Emperor Caligula: “Oderint dum metuant” (Let them hate us as long as they fear us). – Author: Barbara W. Tuchman
Caligula Quotes
― The Fire Rose
- “Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.”
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- “Most people imagine that a man suffers because out of the blue, Death snatches away the woman he loves. But his real suffering is less futile; it comes from the discovery that grief, too, cannot last. Even grief is vanity!”
― Caligula
- “That the crowd always likes a holiday is a common saying, but when the whole year becomes one long holiday, and nobody has time for attending to his business, and pleasure becomes compulsory, then it is a different matter.”
― I, Claudius
- “So much for the Emperor; the rest of this history must deal with the Monster.
—IV:22”
― The Twelve Caesars
- “But is life really worth so much? Let us examine this; it’s a different inquiry. We will offer no solace for so desolate a prison house; we will encourage no one to endure the overlordship of butchers. We shall rather show that in every kind of slavery, the road of freedom lies open. I will say to the man to whom it befell to have a king shoot arrows at his dear ones [Prexaspes], and to him whose master makes fathers banquet on their sons’ guts [Harpagus]: ‘What are you groaning for, fool?… Everywhere you look you find an end to your sufferings. You see that steep drop-off? It leads down to freedom. You see that ocean, that river, that well? Freedom lies at its bottom. You see that short, shriveled, bare tree? Freedom hangs from it…. You ask, what is the path to freedom? Any vein in your body.”
― Dying Every Day: Seneca at the Court of Nero
- “This young woman,” said Diana, “was responsible for the destruction of the Triumvirate’s fleet.”
“Well, I had a lot of help,” Lavinia said.
“I don’t understand,” I said, turning to Lavinia. “You made all those mortars malfunction?”
Lavinia looked offended. “Well, yeah. Somebody had to stop the fleet. I did pay attention during siege-weapon class and ship-boarding class. It wasn’t that hard. All it took was a little fancy footwork.”
Hazel finally managed to pick her jaw off the pavement. “Wasn’t that hard?”
“We were motivated! The fauns and dryads did great.” She paused, her expression momentarily clouding, as if she remembered something unpleasant. “Um…besides, the Nereids helped a lot. There was only a skeleton crew aboard each yacht. Not, like, actual skeletons, but—you know what I mean. Also, look!”
She pointed proudly at her feet, which were now adorned with the shoes of Terpsichore from Caligula’s private collection.
“You mounted an amphibious assault on an enemy fleet,” I said, “for a pair of shoes.”
Lavinia huffed. “Not just for the shoes, obviously.” She tap-danced a routine that would’ve made Savion Glover proud. “Also to save the camp, and the nature spirits, and Michael Kahale’s commandos.”
Hazel held up her hands to stop the overflow of information. “Wait. Not to be a killjoy—I mean, you did an amazing thing!—but you still deserted your post, Lavinia. I certainly didn’t give you permission —”
“I was acting on praetor’s orders,” Lavinia said haughtily. “In fact, Reyna helped. She was knocked out for a while, healing, but she woke up in time to instill us with the power of Bellona, right before we boarded those ships. Made us all strong and stealthy and stuff.”
Hazel asked, “Is it true about Lavinia acting on your orders?”
Reyna glanced at our pink-haired friend. The praetor’s pained expression said something like, I respect you a lot, but I also hate you for being right.
“Yes,” Reyna managed to say. “Plan L was my idea. Lavinia and her friends acted on my orders. They performed heroically.”
Lavinia beamed. “See? I told you.”
The assembled crowd murmured in amazement, as if, after a day full of wonders, they had finally witnessed something that could not be explained.”
― The Tyrant’s Tomb
- “Caligula wished that the Roman people had but one neck that he might cut it off, and as I read this letter I am afraid that for a moment I was capable of wishing the same thing concerning the laboring class of America.”
― Looking Backward
- “Please stop trifling.”
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- “…the guy might be a cold-blooded amoral sadistic killer and a cartload of tiles short of a watertight roof, but there was nothing wrong with his intelligence. [Caligula in Marcus Corvinus’s eyes]”
― Finished Business
- “As for Gaius, he has no more chance of becoming emperor than of riding a horse dry-shod across the Gulf of Baiae.”
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- “So this is the boom, eh?” I said. “Not exactly Scott Fitzgerald, is it?” “I’ll tell you what it’s like,” he said glumly. “It’s like being in Caligula’s Rome, and everyone around you’s having an orgy, and you’re the mug stuck looking after the horse.” He pulled heavily on his cigarette. “The whole thing’ll come crashing down,” he said bleakly, “and all anyone’ll have done is eaten a lot of expensive cheese.”
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- “Cesonia (Erguida ante él y con voz suplicante.): Existe lo bueno y lo malo, lo alto y lo bajo, lo justo y lo injusto. Te juro que nada de eso cambiará.
Calígula (Con el mismo tono.): Pues yo deseo cambiarlo. Quiero concederle a este siglo la igualdad. Y cuando todo esté nivelado, cuando lo imposible reine por fin en este mundo, cuando tenga la luna en mis manos, entonces tal vez yo mismo me transforme, y el mundo conmigo; entonces por fin los hombres no morirán y serán felices.”
― Caligula
- “Animals
fattened for your for your arena suffered less
than you in dying-yours the lawlessness
of something simple that has lost its law,
my namesake, and the last Caligula.”
― For the Union Dead
- “What can be salvaged from your life? A pain
that gently darkens over heart and brain,
a fairy’s touch, a cobweb’s weight of pain,
now makes me tremble at your right to live.”
― For the Union Dead
- “Maybe he was not quite what he seemed to be…handsome, brilliant, and….
Crazy?
Like the Roman Emperors Caligula and Nero?
– Amazon Lee and the Ancient Undead of Rome by Kira G. and Kailin Gow”
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