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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.
— 1776 Remark,11 Apr. Quoted in James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.3.
Ihadthoughttoevokethesoulof Italy but all Ifind before me is its corpse.
Giuseppe Mazzini— Attributed. Quoted in Denis Mack Smith Italy: A Modern History (1959).
Italy is a geographical expression.
Prince Clemens Lothar Wenzel Metternich— 1847 Letter, 6 Aug.
In 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...
— Chromaticism, trans. Romela Kohanovskaya (1996, ISBN 371865704x), Introduction, p. ix
In recent times Italy have been in a World Cup final every 12 years and I hope to still be there in 2018.
gianluigi buffon— Gianluigi Buffon, as quoted in Football Italia (07/07/29)
England is a paradise for women and hell for horses; Italy a paradise for horses, hell for women, as the diverb goes.
robert burton— Section 3, member 1, subsection 2.
The 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 kesselring— June 17, 1944. Quoted in "Mussolini: The Last 600 Days of Il Duce" - Page 131 - by Ray Moseley - History - 2004
There are many star players in Italy, but the only one I would bring to Bayern Munich would be Totti. I know him well and he deserves to win the Ballon d'Or.
francesco totti— Franz Beckenbauer [4] [5]|
The 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 Berlusconi— Denying the heaviness of the Italian crisis, during the news conference after the end of the G20 summit held in Cannes (3-4 November 2011), as reported in "Napolitano ammonisce: attuare impegni. Premier: la crisi non c'è, ristoranti pieni" in Il Messaggero (4 November 2011), and "Silvio Berlusconi shrugs off IMF's financial checks on Italy. Prime minister insists Italy is in good health, with debts under control, and points to full restaurants as proof of strength" in The Guardian (4 November 2011)
To 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 Boccioni— Original text:
Agli artisti giovani d’Italia!
Il grido di ribellione che noi lanciamo, associando i nostri ideali a quelli dei poeti futuristi, non parte già da una chiesuola estetica, ma esprime il violento desiderio che ribolle oggi nelle vene di ogni artista creatore.Manifesto of Futurist Painters, February 1910; p. 24: Lead paragraph
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— De Gustibus, stanza ii
Thy rare gold ring of verse (the poet praised) Linking our England to his Italy.
Robert Browning— Book XII : The Book and the Ring, line 873.
Our 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 mussolini— Speech at Udine (20 September 1922) "The Question of Regime. The Monarchy and Fascism," quoted in A History of Civilization (1955) by Crane Brinton, John B. Christopher, and Robert Lee Wolff, p. 520
When 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."
Plutarch— Life of Pompey.
Had 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— General Conclusions, Part I
(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 roubini— Quoted in: Italy crisis - Live, BBC.co.uk)
These Moors cultivated the sciences with success, and taught Spain and Italy for five centuries.
— Voltaire, A Philosophical Dictionary, J. and H. L. Hunt, 1843, p.172
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.
— John Savage, Muster of the North; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 220.
These Moors cultivated the sciences with success, and taught Spain and Italy for five centuries.
— Voltaire, A Philosophical Dictionary, J. and H. L. Hunt, 1843, p.172
These Moors cultivated the sciences with success, and taught Spain and Italy for five centuries.
— Voltaire, A Philosophical Dictionary, J. and H. L. Hunt, 1843, p.172
After the conquest of Afric, Greece, the lesser Asia, and Syria were brought into Italy all the sorts of their Mala, which we interprete apples, and might signify no more at first: but were afterwards applied to many other foreign fruits.
— Sir William Temple, On Gardening.
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
— October 2006; cited in Alberto Piccinini, Lezioni di storia, il manifesto, 9 settembre 2008, p. 12
There is not in Italy what there is in Sardinia, nor in Sardinia what there is in Italy.
— Francesco Cetti, zoologist, 18th century [ ]
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.
— Samuel Johnson, Boswell, Life of Johnson.
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.
— Alessandra Martines, as quoted in Alessandra Martines: Parigi premia il mio talento ma l'Italia spesso mi ignora, Corriere della Sera, (8-26-2008).
Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.
bertrand russell— Bertrand Russell, The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell? (1967), p. 185.
Come 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.
— De Natura Deorum (On the Nature of the Gods), Book I, Chapter 30.
Adult's grave in Rome, Italy
— Translation: "What you are we were and what we are you will become"
