top of page
.png){kind=small}
Quotes by Italian Authors
"Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason."
"The League is very well when sparrows shout, but no good at all when eagles fall out."
"Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour."
"Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil."
"A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise."
"The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go."
"Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine."
"To create something exceptional, your mindset must be relentlessly focused on the smallest detail."
"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth."
"A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it."
"A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance."
"I've loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night."
"Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle."
"I had the conviction that lovemaking fools you. The overpowering emotions it induces make you think you're sharing the same feelings as the other person and that they're imagining the same as you."
"When you're in front of the camera, for a small budget or a big budget movie, there's no difference."
"Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared."
"The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is."
"Fix your course to a star and you can navigate through any storm."
"There is nothing which deceives us as much as our own judgement."
"The wise man does at once what the fool does finally."
"Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great."
"The greatest artist has no conception which a single block of white marble does not potentially contain within its mass, but only a hand obedient to the mind can penetrate to this image."
"He's dreaming with his eyes open, and those that dream with their eyes open are dangerous, for they do not know when their dreams come to an end."
"Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory."
"Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures."
"The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts."
"Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good."
bottom of page