Two Quotes by Umberto Eco

There are two kinds of friendship: one is genuine affection, the other is inability to refuse.

— Umberto Eco

If two things don't fit, but you believe both of them, thinking that somewhere, hidden, there must be a third thing that…

— Umberto Eco

You tell me these two were my parents, so now I know but it's a memory that you've given me. I'll remember…

— Umberto Eco

Two cliches make us laugh. A hundred cliches move us. For we sense dimly that the cliches are talking among themselves, and…

— Umberto Eco

I've always said that I learned the English I know through two sources -- Marvel Comics and Finnegans Wake.

— Umberto Eco

I don't want to write a novel per year. I know that I need a break of one or two years. So…

— Umberto Eco

“Man's principle trait is a readiness to believe anything. Otherwise, how could the Church have survived for almost two thousand years in…

— Umberto Eco

I do not remember where I read that there are two kinds of poets: the good poets, who at a certain point…

— Umberto Eco

My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was…

— Umberto Eco

Thus we have on stage two men, each of whom knows nothing of what he believes the other knows, and to deceive…

— Umberto Eco

Every time that I write a novel I am convinced for at least two years that it is the last one, because…

— Umberto Eco

They [the Templars] had read Avicenna, and they were not ignorant, like the Europeans. How could you live alongside a tolerant, mystical,…

— Umberto Eco

[I am fascinated by stupidity] because normal intelligence is boring. Two plus two makes four - finished. You have no possibilities! Stupidity…

— Umberto Eco

You must overcome any shyness and have a conversation with the librarian, because he can offer you reliable advice that will save…

— Umberto Eco

Given that there are seven billion people living on this earth, there is a consistent quantity of imbecile or idiot, okay. Previously,…

— Umberto Eco

When all the archetypes burst out shamelessly, we plumb the depths of Homeric profundity. Two clichés make us laugh but a hundred…

— Umberto Eco

Usually naive interviewers hover between two mutually contradictory convictions: one, that a text we call creative develops almost instantaneously in the mystic…

— Umberto Eco