A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority, from his not having seen what it is expected a man should see.
Ihadthoughttoevokethesoulof Italy but all Ifind before me is its corpse.
Giuseppe MazziniItaly is a geographical expression.
Prince Clemens Lothar Wenzel MetternichIn 16th-century Italy there lived Lodovico Gonzaga, a 16-year old seminarist who was very fond of playing ball. Once a certain priest passing by wondered if for a future priest the youth was too keen on his pursuit and asked him:"What would you do if you learned that in half an hour the end of the world was coming?" To which Lodovico replied: "I'd play on." According to the Russian thinker Georgy Fedotov, the importance of culture lies in precisely that: we go on playing ball on the verge of Doomsday...
In recent times Italy have been in a World Cup final every 12 years and I hope to still be there in 2018.
gianluigi buffonEngland is a paradise for women and hell for horses; Italy a paradise for horses, hell for women, as the diverb goes.
robert burtonThe partisan situation in the Italian theater, particularly central Italy, has deteriorated to such an extent that it constitutes a serious danger to troops, supply lines, war industry and economic potential. The fight against the partisans must be carried out with all means at our disposal and with utmost severity. I will protect any commander who exceeds our usual restraint in the choice of methods in executing one's orders is better than failure or neglect to act.
albert kesselringThe life in Italy is the life of a wealthy country, consumptions haven't diminished, it's hard to find seats on planes, our restaurants are full of people.
Silvio BerlusconiTo the Young Artists of Italy! The cry of rebellion that we launch, linking our ideals with those of the Futurist poets, does not originate in an aesthetic clique. It expresses the violent desire that stirs in the veins of every creative artist today.
Umberto BoccioniThy rare gold ring of verse (the poet praised) Linking our England to his Italy.
Robert BrowningOur program is simple: we wish to govern Italy. They ask us for programs but there are already too many. It is not programs that are wanting for the salvation of Italy but men and will power.
benito mussoliniWhen some were saying that if Cæsar should march against the city they could not see what forces there were to resist him, Pompey replied with a smile, bidding them be in no concern, "for whenever I stamp my foot in any part of Italy there will rise up forces enough in an instant, both horse and foot."
PlutarchHad Mr. Gibbon lived in France, Spain, or Italy, he might with the fame reason have ranked the doctrine of transubstantiation, and the worship of saints and angels among the essentials of Christianity, as the doctrines of the trinity and of the atonement.
joseph priestley(During the Italian crisis, about the proposal of replacing Silvio Berlusconi with Angelino Alfano, as the new Prime Minister of Italy ) Replacing Berlusconi with one of his servile lackeys is unacceptable. Italy needs a credible government run by a respected & competent leader (2011-11-08
nouriel roubiniThese Moors cultivated the sciences with success, and taught Spain and Italy for five centuries.
From the vine-land, from the Rhine-land, From the Shannon, from the Scheldt, From the ancient homes of genius, From the sainted home of Celt, From Italy, from Hungary, All as brothers join and come, To the sinew-bracing bugle, And the foot-propelling drum; Too proud beneath the starry flag to die, and keep secure The liberty they dreamed of by the Danube, Elbe, and Suir.
These Moors cultivated the sciences with success, and taught Spain and Italy for five centuries.
These Moors cultivated the sciences with success, and taught Spain and Italy for five centuries.
If we look at Somalia, Ethiopia and Lybia, to how they're reduced now, and to how they were before, with Italy, I think that this page of history will be rewritten and there will be a positive evaluation of the role of Italy
There is not in Italy what there is in Sardinia, nor in Sardinia what there is in Italy.
A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority, from his not having seen what it is expected a man should see.
In Italia, chi si fa valere all'estero non viene considerato. In Italy, those who make a name for themselves in other countries are ignored.
Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.
bertrand russellCome now: Do we really think that the gods are everywhere called by the same names by which they are addressed by us? But the gods have as many names as there are languages among humans. For it is not with the gods as with you: you are Velleius wherever you go, but Vulcan is not Vulcan in Italy and in Africa and in Spain.
Adult's grave in Rome, Italy