Quotation Explorer - 'Italy'

Despite her unrepentant aversion to Italian food, which her husband put down to her nation's historic distrust of Italy, she suddenly declared: "All I want in life is to be able to get a take-away pizza! - Julia Stuart
We are all pilgrims who seek Italy. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy.-- Circular Letter to My Friends in Italy - Mikhail Bakunin
Don Bradman will bat no more against England, and two contrary feelings dispute within us: relief, that our bowlers will no longer be oppressed by this phenomenon; regret, that a miracle has been removed from among us. So must ancient Italy have felt when she heard of the death of Hannibal. - R.C. Robertson-Glasgow
In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock. - Orson Welles
Italy and London are the only places where I don't feel to exist on sufferance. - E.M. Forster
My heart is aching for the people of Nice, Italy. I am so sad that I have no words to express my frustration. - Debasish Mridha
When life gives you twists and turns, Chique Yourself Up in Italy! - Barbara Conelli
Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There's no looking at a building after seeing Italy.
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