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Quotes by Italian Authors
"If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes."
"Nevertheless, the mode, the justification, and all the games involved in this war were dishonest."
"What words say does not last. The words last. Because words are always the same, and what they say is never the same."
"Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words."
"I am an atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be something true. There must be some human truth that is beyond religion."
"I've been lucky enough to have had the luxury of being able to make the picture I've wanted to make each time on my own terms and without compromise."
"The history of my life must begin by the earliest circumstance which my memory can evoke; it will therefore commence when I had attained the age of eight years and four months."
"The salt of any interesting civilization is mixture."
"In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision."
"I am positive that flexibility is a feminine characteristic."
"Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need."
"At the point when continuity was interrupted by the first nuclear explosion, it would have been too easy to recover the formal sediment which linked us with an age of poetic decorum, of a preoccupation with poetic sounds."
"Constancy is the complement of all other human virtues."
"Russia knows of the vulnerability of her frontiers in this part of the world."
"How it happened that Mastro Cherry, carpenter, found a piece of wood that wept and laughed like a child."
"War is something Arafat sends others to do for him. That is, the poor souls who believe in him. This pompous incompetent caused the failure of the Camp David negotiations, Clinton's mediation."
"Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out."
"I mean, what Fiat had it was not very big, it was something like forty or fifty million dollars, but it's enough to get revolving credit, to get starting away again, the buying of new machinery."
"To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked."
"In acting process, it's very difficult to explain. It's something very intimate, very private."
"When a relationship doesn't work anymore, it's terrible to stay with someone that you don't love."
"The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come."
"Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times."
"Her breast was young, the nipples rosy. Cosimo just grazed it with his lips, before Viola slid away over the branches as if she were flying, with him clambering after her, and that skirt of hers always in his face."
"I have to admit that I only read 'War and Peace' when I was 40. But I knew the basics before then."
"All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today."
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