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Quotes About Italy

Open my heart, and you will seeGraved inside of it, "Italy."
~ Robert Browning
England is a paradise for women, and hell for horses: Italy is a paradise for horses, hell for women.
~ Robert Burton
England is a paradise for women and hell for horses; Italy a paradise for horses, hell for women, as the diverb goes.
~ Robert Burton
England is a paradise for women and hell for horses; Italy is a paradise for horses, hell for women, as the proverb goes.
~ Robert Burton
England is paradise for women, and hell for horses: Italy is a paradise for horses, hell for women.
~ Robert Burton
Among the deficiencies common to the Italian and the U.S. postal systems are: - inefficiency, and delays in deliveries - old-fashioned organization - low efficiency and low salaries of personnel - high frequency of strikes - very high operational deficit - Roberto Vacca, The Coming Dark Age
~ Larry Niven
It would be idle to propose that the arrangements made in 1815 caused the terrible cataclysms of the twentieth century. But anyone who attempted to argue that what happened in Russia after 1917, in Italy and Germany in the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s, and in many other parts of central and southern Europe at various other moments of the last century had no connection with them would be exposing themselves to ridicule.
~ Adam Zamoyski
This is my Italy, she thought. The power and beauty of the antiquities, the detailed frescos, the imposing statuaries carved of milk white granite, Don Martinelli's hammered gold chalice, the glorious tones of the music, the Italy of Puccini and Verdi, Caruso and Toscanini, not the Italy of the shattered spirits in Hoboken and the drunken, desperate Anna Buffa. This was the Italy that fed her soul, where hope was restored and broken hearts were mended in the hands of great artists.
~ Adriana Trigiani
Italy, despite its earthiness and charm, can never be New Jersey. Here we value evolution and change; Italy, while it warms the heart, is a monument to the past. In America we change our rooms as often as our fashions. In Italy you're likely to find throw pillows older than the Shroud of Turin. It's just a different way to live.
~ Adriana Trigiani
Perhaps because of this Babel of dialects, Italians cultivated an alternative language: gestures. In
~ Dianne Hales
In Italy, the Index's ban was enforced. Bibles were publicly and ceremonially burned, like heretics; even literary versions of scriptural stories in drama or poetry were frowned on. As a result, between 1567 and 1773, not a single edition of an Italian-language Bible was printed anywhere in the Italian peninsula.
~ Diarmaid MacCulloch
Fascism is an Italian term that means "groupism" or "collectivism." The fasci in Italy were groups of political activists who got their name from the fasces of ancient Rome—the bundles of rods carried by the lictors to symbolize the unified strength of the Romans. The core meaning of the term fascism is that people are stronger in groups than they are as individuals.
~ Dinesh D'Souza
If you look at a map, you will see that the country of Italy is shaped like a boot, and that the island of Sicily appears to be something that Italy is kicking. What do you think Sicily has done to annoy Italy?
~ Dino Buzzati
in Italia, dove si raggiungono capolavori di sagacia per eludere le leggi che impongono il più piccolo sacrificio o costrizione, stiamo pur certi che le norme attinenti al riposo e simili verranno rispettate senza eccezione con scrupolo prussiano.
~ Dino Buzzati
Italy is a dream that keeps returning for the rest of your life.
~ Anna Akhmatova
Not everyone in Italy may know how to cook, but nearly everyone knows how to eat. Eating in Italy is one more manifestation of the Italian's age-old gift of making art out of life.
~ Marcella Hazan
You don't become a saint until you lead a good life whether in Tibet or Italy or America.
~ Kenneth Rexroth
The Tuscan countryside whizzed by in a kaleidoscopic whirl of shapes and colors. Green grass and trees melded with blue sky, purple and yellow wildflowers, peachy-orange villas, brown-and-gray farmhouses, and the occasional red-and-white Autogrill, Italy's (delicious) answer to fast food.
~ Jenny Nelson
In Italy, you sometimes get the impression they'd be happier to lose the Ppe than lose their right to drive like maniacs.
~ Jeremy Clarkson
In which building is the pope?" one woman asked. She was overheard by writer Teresa Dean, who wrote a daily column from the fair. "The pope is not here, madame," the guard said. "Where is he?" "In Italy, Europe, madame." The woman frowned. "Which way is that?" Convinced now that the woman was joking, the guard cheerfully quipped, "Three blocks under the lagoon." She said, "How do I get there?
~ Erik Larson
The best sky was in Italy or Spain and in Northern Michigan in the fall
~ Ernest Hemingway
I will draw a sight draft on my grandfather, I said. A what? A sight draft. He has to pay or I go to jail. Mr. Cunningham at the bank does it. I live by sight drafts. Can a grandfather jail a patriotic grandson who is dying that Italy may live? Live the American Garibaldi, said Rinaldi. Viva the sight drafts, I said. We must be quiet, said the major. Already we have been asked many times to be quiet...
~ Ernest Hemingway
Remember Binasco; it brought me tranquillity in all of Italy, and spared shedding the blood of thousands. Nothing is more salutary than appropriately severe examples.'78 'If you make war,' he would say to General d'Hédouville in December 1799, 'wage it with energy and severity; it is the only means of making it shorter and consequently less deplorable for mankind.
~ Andrew Roberts
Only in Italy are elections as carnivalesque as they are here. Except, in Ukraine, the carnival is always anarchistic, and more or less uncontrollable.
~ Andrey Kurkov