Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

“Noi fummo i Gattopardi, i Leoni; quelli che ci sostituiranno saranno gli sciacalletti, le iene; e tutti quanti gattopardi, sciacalli e pecore,…

— Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

Love. Of course, love. Flames for a year, ashes for thirty.

— Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

Nowhere has truth such a short life as in Sicily; a fact has scarcely happened five minutes before its genuine kernel has…

— Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

“We’re not blind in spirit, Father. We’re just human beings in a changing world”. Il gattopardo”

— Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

“Don Fabrizio remembered a conversation with Father Pirrone some months before in the sunlit observatory. What the Jesuit had predicted had come…

— Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

“Si queremos que todo siga como está, es preciso que todo cambie”

— Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

To rage and mock is gentlemanly, to grumble and whine is not.

— Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

“All Sicilian expression, even the most violent, is really wish fulfillment: our sensuality is a hankering for oblivion, our shooting and knifing…

— Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

— Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

“That solar hue, that variegation of gleam and shade, made Don Fabrizio's heart ache as he stood black and stiff in a…

— Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

“For over twenty-five centuries we’ve been bearing the weight of superb and heterogeneous civilizations, all from outside, none made by ourselves, none…

— Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

“E poi quando si è con Tancredi ci si può forse irritare qualche volta, ma non ci si annoia mai; e questo…

— Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

“...waking at very early dawn amid all that sweat and stink, he had found himself comparing this ghastly journey with his own…

— Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.

— Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

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

“Those were the best days in the life of Tancredi and Angelica, lives later to be so variegated, so erring, against the…

— Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

As always the thought of his own death calmed him as much as that of others disturbed him: was it perhaps because,…

— Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

“We’re not blind in spirit, Father. We’re just human beings in a changing world”

— Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

“Cambiare tutto perché niente cambi.”

— Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

A house of which one knew every room wasn't worth living in.

— Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

“The unhappy priest was breathing hard; sincere horror at the foreseen dispersal of Church property was linked with regret at his having…

— Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa