“ On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair, they classic face, Thy naiad airs have brought me home To the glory that was Greece And the grandeur that was Rome. ”
- Edgar Allan Poe- Copy
- 1.5K
“ Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy. ”
- Bertrand Russell- Copy
- 517
“ I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome. ”
- Julius Caesar- Copy
- 2.9K
“ Open my heart and you will see Graved inside of it, "Italy. ”
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning- Copy
- 2.7K
“ For whereso'er I turn my ravished eyes, Gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise; Poetic fields encompass me around, And still I seem to tread on classic ground. ”
- Joseph Addison- Copy
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“ Italy, my Italy! Queen Mary's saying serves for me — (When fortune's malice Lost her Calais) — Open my heart and you will see Graved inside of it, "Italy. ”
- Robert Browning- Copy
- 2K
“ When you are at Rome live in the Roman style; when you are elsewhere live as they live elsewhere. ”
- Saint Ambrose- Copy
- 3.4K
“ Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There's no looking at a building after seeing Italy. ”
- Fanny Burney- Copy
- 2K
“ Love in France is a comedy; in England a tragedy; in Italy an opera seria; and in Germany a melodrama. ”
- Lady Marguerite Blessington- Copy
- 240
“ England is paradise for women, and hell for horses: Italy is a paradise for horses, hell for women. ”
- Robert Burton- Copy
- 1.8K
“ Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy gets the Catholic Church. America gets Hollywood. ”
- Erica Jong- Copy
- 1.7K
“ Real socialism is inside man. It wasn't born with Marx. It was in the communes of Italy in the Middle Ages. You can't say it is finished. ”
- Dario Fo- Copy
- 3.9K
“ In Italy, the country where fascism was born, we have a particular relation with the Holocaust, but as a turning point in history it belongs to everybody in the world. It is a part of humanity. ”
- Roberto Benigni- Copy
- 1.1K
“ We, unlike Nazi Germany or Mussolini's Italy, have never stopped being a nation of laws, not of men. But witness how men with motives and a majority can manipulate law to cruel and unjust ends. ”
- Robert Byrd- Copy
- 3K
“ It's a family that's loaded with grudges and passion. We come from a long line of robbers and highwaymen in Italy, you know. Killers, even. ”
- Nicolas Cage- Copy
- 2.6K
“ I have been going to Italy since 1980, but I always went to do work. I did not live overseas, because I do not like running around with everything I own in a paper bag. ”
- Bill Dixon- Copy
- 3.1K
“ You're a Catholic in Italy when you're born, it's unthinkable to stop being Catholic. You just take the rules a lot more seriously, because it pervades your culture. ”
- Andrew Greeley- Copy
- 2.8K
“ I can always get examples from music than I can from illustrative art, if you take an opera which is about Ancient Greece or an opera which is set in sort of Italy or Spain about an amoreuse, Mozart style will be the same for both. You don't have an archaic Greek style for an archaic story and have a sort of sexy, you know, Italian style for a sexy Italian story… ”
- Peter Porter- Copy
- 3.7K
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