(365 quotes found)
“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
“You may have the universe if I may have Italy”
Giuseppe Verdi
“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
“I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor”
Laurence Sterne
“There is, in fact, no law or government at all [in Italy]; and it is wonderful how well things go on without them.”
Lord Byron
“The Creator made Italy from designs by Michael Angelo”
Mark Twain
“Real socialism is inside man. It wasn't born with Marx. It was in the communes of Italy in the Middle Ages. You can't say it is finished.”
Dario Fo
“The Vatican is a dagger in the heart of Italy.”
Thomas Paine
“Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy gets the Catholic Church. America gets Hollywood.”
Erica Jong
