1519 Quotes by Italian authors

Italian sayings carry the warmth of a kitchen and the gravity of a cathedral, braiding tenderness with irony. Love, beauty, and loyalty sit beside hunger, time, and fate; saints and skeptics share the same bench. From Dante to De André, voices favor clarity over ornament, quick wit over sermon, turning daily life into distilled wisdom. Coastal winds and factory smoke, dialect and high lyric, a moral compass that sways yet does not snap, and an aftertaste, espresso-bitter, sunlit, define their music.

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"With whom do you argue? With a woman, of course. Not with a friend, because he accepted all your defects the moment he found you. Besides, woman is mother-have we forgotten?"

Marcello Mastroianni, Actor

"Give me the fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself"

Vilfredo Pareto, Economist

"There are those who have a desire to love, but do not have the capacity to love"

Giovanni Papini, Journalist

"The Geometer has the special privilege to carry out, by abstraction, all constructions by means of the intellect. Who, then, would wish to prevent me from freely considering figures hanging on a balance imagined to be at an infinite distance beyond the confines of the world?"

Evangelista Torricelli, Scientist

"Many have argued that a vacuum does not exist, others claim it exists only with difficulty in spite of the repugnance of nature; I know of no one who claims it easily exists without any resistance from nature"

Evangelista Torricelli, Scientist

"You aren't ill: it is just that you are made of second-rate materials"

Natalia Ginzburg, Writer

"No adultery is bloodless"

Natalia Ginzburg, Writer

"I believe that we were very, very lucky that it went that way"

Giovanni Agnelli, Designer

"Memories are like stones, time and distance erode them like acid"

Ugo Betti, Playwright

"If we have anything kind to say, any tender sentiment to express, we feel a sense of shame"

Ugo Betti, Playwright

"There is no forgiveness in nature"

Ugo Betti, Playwright

"Theater actors like to change character roles. They don't like to always do the same thing"

Marcello Mastroianni, Actor

"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"

Luigi Barzini, Journalist

"To conquer the command of the air means victory; to be beaten in the air means defeat and acceptance of whatever terms the enemy may be pleased to impose"

Giulio Douhet, Soldier

"When I sit at my table to write, I never know what it's going to be until I'm under way. I trust in inspiration, which sometimes comes and sometimes doesn't. But I don't sit back waiting for it. I work every day"

Alberto Moravia, Novelist

"There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience"

Saint Ambrose, Saint

"Well, in 1947... in Europe and in Italy especially, we thought of America as all-powerful"

Giovanni Agnelli, Designer

"Humans: become atheists each and all! God will nevertheless welcome you with all his heart!"

Giovanni Papini, Journalist

"On the justice of the cause of Prince Edouard, adding insurances of greatest sincerity to help it and support it and give him on all occasions of the marks of the same feelings as I have for the King his father"

Henry Benedict Stuart, Statesman

"Take care, these Italians, full of failings, are neither you, nor me; they are your neighbors, the ones you meet on the staircase and whom you do not like to greet"

Alberto Sordi, Actor

"I think that climatic changes have a natural causes according many geological data... I am very glad to sign the U.S. Senate's report of scientists against the theory of man-made global warming"

Uberto Crescenti, Scientist

"There is no redemption from hell"

Pope Paul III, Clergyman

Pope Paul III

"It is true that men themselves made this world of nations... but this world without doubt has issued from a mind often diverse, at times quite contrary, and always superior to the particular ends that men had proposed to themselves"

Giambattista Vico, Philosopher

"We show deference to the civil authorities when they respect the divine origin of their power and when they serve the people with objective reference to the law of God"

Angelo Scola, Clergyman

Angelo Scola

"It's very difficult to determine whether this is the fault of the world that has abandoned the Church, or the Church that does not know how to relate to the world"

Angelo Scola, Clergyman

Angelo Scola

"Art is a kind of illness"

Giacomo Puccini, Composer

"You're the one who likes cigars right? Try smoking this"

Franco Nero, Actor

"It doesn't matter. What matters is that you're about to die"

Franco Nero, Actor

"Today, as never before, the fates of men are so intimately linked to one another that a disaster for one is a disaster for everybody"

Natalia Ginzburg, Writer

"In some causes silence is dangerous"

Saint Ambrose, Saint

"This free will business is a bit terrifying anyway. It's almost pleasanter to obey, and make the most of it"

Ugo Betti, Playwright

"The rights of the weak are not weaker rights, but are completely equal to the rights of the strong"

Dionigi Tettamanzi, Clergyman

"I'm quite shy, so if there's a guy I like, I actually ignore him because I can't speak to him. I get all red and sweaty, and it's embarrassing"

Silvia Colloca, Actress

"Such a gift might be easily taken back again"

Veronica Franco, Poet

"Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else"

Ugo Betti, Playwright

"I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on"

Ugo Betti, Playwright

"Italian girls are famous for being snobby and expecting men to make the first move. In America, if I don't make eye contact, the guys won't come over and talk. American girls just go for it. You men are spoiled"

Silvia Colloca, Actress

"In my childhood, America was like a religion. Then, real-life Americans abruptly entered my life - in jeeps - and upset all my dreams"

Sergio Leone, Director

"Woman is also the element of conflict"

Marcello Mastroianni, Actor

"Left love behind many years ago. Now it rests under a cross in the cemetery in Tombstone"

Franco Nero, Actor

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