Quotes by Italian authors

"Fashion is all about happiness. It's fun. It's important. But it's not medicine"

"I like perfume and flowers"

"Fashion is not frivolous. I am a businesswoman, a very serious person"

"Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbour"

"The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights"

"The human heart is as a frail craft on which we wish to reach the stars"

"Take pleasure in your dreams; relish your principles and drape your purest feelings on the heart of a precious lover"

"Creativity seems to emerge from multiple experiences, coupled with a well-supported development of personal resources, including a sense of freedom to venture beyond the known"

"I'm not a movie star. I'm just an actress"

"A relationship requires a lot of work and commitment"

"My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, my childhood was very good. I am very grateful for my childhood, because it was full of gladness and good humanity"

"We are the world. We are the people and we deserve better not because we're worth it but because no worth can be put on the incalculable, on the infinite, on life"

"I also used these realistic sounds in a psychological way. With The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, I used animal sounds - as you say, the coyote sound - so the sound of the animal became the main theme of the movie"

"In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing"

"Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder"

"Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions"

"It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles"

"It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope"

"It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved"

"It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver"

"It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both"

"If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared"

"I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it"

"No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution"

"There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others"

"The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous"

"One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived"

"Politics have no relation to morals"

"When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred"

"Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times"