# A Time in Rome

- Author: [Elizabeth Bowen](https://www.leafyquotes.com/elizabeth-bowen.md)
- Quotes: 5
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/elizabeth-bowen/a-time-in-rome

## Quotes

> Cicero, in invoking the law of heaven, invoked what was by nature of heaven: law — inviolable principle, better than the vacillating gods.

p. 80 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/elizabeth-bowen/a-time-in-rome/cicero-in-invoking.md)

> [U]ntruths are thieves, robbing us of a birthright.

p. 59 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/elizabeth-bowen/a-time-in-rome/u-ntruths-are-thieves.md)

> I am sick of the governessy attitude of our age, which is coming to be more genuinely presumptuous, nosier and more busybody than the Victorian.

p. 141 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/elizabeth-bowen/a-time-in-rome/i-am-sick.md)

> [T]here is a flaw in civilization from the instant it has to admit fear.

p. 23 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/elizabeth-bowen/a-time-in-rome/t-here-is-a-flaw.md)

> It is thought that women inspire by their beauty; more often they do so by their longings.

p. 132 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/elizabeth-bowen/a-time-in-rome/it-is-thought.md)