37 Movie Quotes about Rome (+ Sound Clips) - page 2

Updated: Apr 4, 2026

Memorable quotes about rome, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

11 I've seen much of the rest of the world. It is brutal and cruel and dark. Rome is the light.

Russell Crowe as Maximus Decimus Meridius in Gladiator (2000)

12 I think he knows what Rome is. Rome is the mob.

Derek Jacobi as Senator Gracchus in Gladiator (2000)

13 Rome wasn't burned in a night.

Bo Hopkins as The Pharaohs in American Graffiti

14 That's my favorite drink. -Mine too. It always makes me think of Rome. The way the sun hits the buildings in the afternoon.

Bill Murray as Phil Connors in Groundhog Day

15 That is the Roman way.

Alec Guinness as Marcus Aurelius in The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)

16 In the name of the immortal gods, I, Romulus, am now king of this city. This furrow marks its boundaries. Who crosses it unarmed is our friend. He who is armed must die. This is the law.

Steve Reeves as Romulus; Steve Reeves as Romulus And Remus in Duel of the Titans (1961)

17 Who are you? Where's Collie Baba? Did Rome fall yet?

Rip Taylor as Genie in DuckTales: The Movie (1990)

18 Some of you may also have heard the story of a monster now confined here in Rome's zoo. That beast is from Venus.

William Hopper as Robert Calder in 20 Million Miles to Earth (1957)

19 There was once a dream that was Rome. You could only whisper it. Anything more than a whisper and it would vanish, it was so fragile. And I fear that it will not survive the winter.

Richard Harris as Marcus Aurelius in Gladiator (2000)

20 How can I reward Rome's greatest general?

Richard Harris as Marcus Aurelius in Gladiator (2000)