Quotes About Hannibal

Sertorius was far from being strong enough to renew the gigantic enterprise of Hannibal. He was lost if he left Spain, where all his successes were bound up with the peculiarities of the country and the people; and even there, he was more and more compelled to renounce the offensive.

Not much more than a broke disgrace who's hooked on tonics, so excuse him if his poker face has puke on it.

I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti

On his Hannibal Lector mask: I've got it at home. I wear it to bed every night.

Lincoln dumped his bland second-in-command, Hannibal Hamlin, for Johnson

I love doing the nighttime soap, the emotional, psychological, hard stuff that I got to tackle on 'Hannibal.'

Then came a volley of colorful abuse, delivered in such an imperious voice, at at such a volume, that Terentia's distant ancestor, who had commanded the Roman line against Hannibal at Cannae a century and a half before, must surely have sat bolt upright in his tomb.

Annoyed that although outlawed in Rome, astrology was nevertheless alive and well, Cicero noted that at Cannae in 216 B.C., Hannibal, leading about 50,000 Carthaginian and allied troops, crushed the much larger Roman army, slaughtering more than 60,000 of its 80,000 soldiers. "Did all the Romans who fell at Cannae have the same horoscope?" Cicero asked. "Yet all had one and the same end.

when he won the command to defeat Hannibal in the third century B.C.

tempted by Hannibal's offer to ensure the 'liberty of the Hellenes

the Antigonid kingdom of Macedonia also made an alliance with Hannibal.

'Inside Out' - that was a really good movie. That's the first animated movie I saw since 'The Lego Movie.'

Hannibal Lecter stole Leatherface's mask and ported the slasher conventions into the thriller for the early '90s.

The one fiction show I watch is 'Hannibal.' I love it!

I'm incredibly proud of 'Hannibal' and the cast - I feel like we're doing really good television.

These scenes deal with what happened before Hannibal Lecter was captured for the first time.

'Hannibal' is not reality; the whole show is not reality. It's heightened reality: they want music the entire time.

There are shows that I would like to be able to watch, but don't really have time to, like 'Hannibal.'

One whom the infernal gods of Hannibal will cause to be reborn, terror of mankind; never more horror nor worse days in the past than will come to the Romans through Babel.

Rawson points out that although snakes can't taste, they have a primitive sense of smell. They'll extend their tongue to gather volatile molecules and then pull it back in and plug it into the vomeronasal organ at the roof of the mouth to get a reading. Snakes are keenly attuned to the aroma of favored prey—so much so that if you slip a rat's face and hide, Hannibal Lecter–style, over the snout of a non-favored prey item, a python will try to swallow it.

I'm going to isolate Barry off the court like a mass murderer so he can't interact with teammates in any way. We'll have to treat him the same way Hannibal Lecter was treated:

I really would love to play a hannibal lector or PSYCO type character.

Our forefathers regarded as a prodigy the passage of the Alps: first by Hannibal and, more recently, by the Cimbri; but at the present day, these very mountains are cut asunder to yield us a thousand different marbles; promontories are thrown open to the sea; and the face of Nature is being everywhere reduced to a level.

As a famous historian once said, in all its history, Rome deigned to fear two people; one was Hannibal, the other was a woman.