Quotes About Italy

In Italy, they add work and life on to food and wine.

Italy also demanded that Britain should fund Italy's part in the war and provide the Italian Army with artillery.

To have seen Italy without seeing Sicily is not to have seen Italy at all, for Sicily is the clue to everything. —GOETHE, ITALIAN JOURNEY

Gnarled olive trees covered the hills with their dusky foliage, fruit hung golden in the orchard, and great scarlet anemones fringed the roadside, while beyond green slopes and craggy heights, the Maritime Alps rose sharp and white against the blue Italian sky.

The danger of Italy...is, it tends to make one florid.

Tragically, most of the Jews of Italy have been deported or massacred.

Extraordinary scenes there at the end. I think some of the crowd chanting 'Italy! Italy!' were actually Irish.

the ladies of Italy have this advantage over those of France, that they are faithful even in their infidelity.

Nu plânge, Maria! zise regele. Ne vom întâlni acolo, sus... Din lumea asta nu te regret decât pe tine. Dac? te-aÈ™ putea lua cu mine aÈ™ fi fericit c? mor. C?l?toria la cer e mult mai frumoas? decât cea din Italia. ?i apoi, mi se pare c? f?r? mine, n-ai s? mai fii fericit?. Te vor face s? suferi... ÎÈ›i va fi frig, vei fi singur?; te vor ucide, draga mea! Asta m? nec?jeÈ™te mai mult decât moartea!

En Italie, on ne paie la justice que si elle se tait, mais en France on ne la paie au contraire que quand elle parle.

I lived in Italy for three years and wanted no part of the country's disreputable way of life.

'Cliffhanger' got me in the best shape of my life, working at 10,000 feet up in the mountains. And everybody was great. I lived in Italy for seven months doing that movie. It was a great vacation.

He might have left Amherst and traveled far away, to Italy or Mexico in search of beautiful food and adventure...Made small things exciting and beautiful, the way he knew how. pg. 246

And don't, let me beg you, go with that awful tourist idea that Italy's only a museum of antiquities and art. Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land

One doesn't come to Italy for niceness," was the retort; "one comes for life. Buon giorno! Buon giorno!

Let her go to Italy!" he cried. "Let her meddle with what she doesn't understand!

Do you remember Italy?

But Italy worked some marvel in her. It gave her light, and – which he held more precious – it gave her shadow. Soon he detected in her a wonderful reticence. She was like a woman of Leonardo da Vinci's, whom we love not so much for herself as for the things that she will not tell us. The things are assuredly not of this life; no woman of Leonardo's could have anything so vulgar as a "story." She did develop most wonderfully day by day.

A rebel she was, but not of the kind he understood - a rebel who desired, not a wider dwelling-room, but equality beside the man she loved. For Italy was offering her the most priceless of all possessions - her own soul.

Italy was offering her the most priceless of all possessions—her own soul.

No, mother; no. She was really keen on Italy. This travel is quite a crisis for her." He found the situation full of whimsical romance: there was something half attractive, half repellent in the thought of this vulgar woman journeying to places he loved and revered. Why should she not be transfigured? The same had happened to the Goths.

Italy is such a delightful place to live in if you happen to be a man. There one may enjoy that exquisite luxury of Socialism — that true Socialism which is based not on equality of income or character, but on the equality of manners.

But Italy worked some marvel in her. It gave her light...

One doesn't come to Italy for niceness," was the retort; "one comes for life. Buon giorno! Buon giorno!" bowing right and left. "Look at that adorable wine-cart! How the driver stares at us, dear, simple soul!