“You may have the universe if I may have Italy”
Giuseppe Verdi
“Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.”
Bertrand Russell
“Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There's no looking at a building after seeing Italy.”
Fanny Burney
“There are so many beautiful parts of the world . . . Thailand, Italy, the south of France. There are places in Spain that are astonishing. But here . . . 25 miles and you go up on Mount Tam to see the fog come in; 25 miles the other direction and you're somewhere else that takes your breath away. There's no question this is where I want to live. Never has been.”
Robin Williams
“In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.”
Orson Welles
“Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy gets the Catholic Church. America gets Hollywood.”
Erica Jong
“The Creator made Italy from designs by Michael Angelo”
Mark Twain
