“The unhappy priest was breathing hard; sincere horror at the foreseen dispersal of Church property was linked with regret at his having lost control of himself again, with fear of offending the Prince, whom he genuinely liked and whose blustering… — Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Copy Share Image
“Noi fummo i Gattopardi, i Leoni; quelli che ci sostituiranno saranno gli sciacalletti, le iene; e tutti quanti gattopardi, sciacalli e pecore, continueremo a… — Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Copy Share Image
Love. Of course, love. Flames for a year, ashes for thirty. — Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Copy Share Image
Nowhere has truth such a short life as in Sicily; a fact has scarcely happened five minutes before its genuine kernel has vanished, been… — Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Copy Share Image
“We’re not blind in spirit, Father. We’re just human beings in a changing world”. Il gattopardo” — Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Copy Share Image
“Don Fabrizio remembered a conversation with Father Pirrone some months before in the sunlit observatory. What the Jesuit had predicted had come to pass.… — Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Copy Share Image
“Si queremos que todo siga como está, es preciso que todo cambie” — Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Copy Share Image
To rage and mock is gentlemanly, to grumble and whine is not. — Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Copy Share Image
“All Sicilian expression, even the most violent, is really wish fulfillment: our sensuality is a hankering for oblivion, our shooting and knifing a hankering… — Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Copy Share Image
If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change. — Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Copy Share Image
“That solar hue, that variegation of gleam and shade, made Don Fabrizio's heart ache as he stood black and stiff in a doorway: this… — Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Copy Share Image
“For over twenty-five centuries we’ve been bearing the weight of superb and heterogeneous civilizations, all from outside, none made by ourselves, none that we… — Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Copy Share Image
“E poi quando si è con Tancredi ci si può forse irritare qualche volta, ma non ci si annoia mai; e questo è molto.… — Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Copy Share Image
“...waking at very early dawn amid all that sweat and stink, he had found himself comparing this ghastly journey with his own life, which… — Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Copy Share Image
If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change. — Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Copy Share Image
There is no need to tell you that the 'Prince of Salina' is the Prince Lampedusa, my great-grandfather Giulio Fabrizio. — Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Copy Share Image
