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Quotes by Italian Authors
"Fear... is forward. No one is afraid of yesterday."
"Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail."
"There is no prodigy in our profession. If you see all the great singer of the past, none of them are."
"Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real."
"Having had a reputation for being sexy is a great prop to lean on now."
"Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge."
"A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise."
"Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish."
"Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed."
"It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father."
"I left the ending ambiguous, because that is the way life is."
"Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life."
"The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art."
"To put up a show is to face life's injustices with one of the few weapons available to a desperate and brave people, their imagination."
"We live in a society that compels us to go on using these concepts, and we no longer know what they mean."
"Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!"
"A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair."
"Their houses are all built in the shape of tents, with very high chimneys."
"It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved."
"I've always been drawn to tormented people full of contradictions."
"When you're in front of the camera, for a small budget or a big budget movie, there's no difference."
"A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance."
"The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection."
"Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious."
"Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory."
"A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it."
"There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others."
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