Neapolitan Quotes
7 quotes by 6 authors
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On December 12, 1829, Paganini wrote his friend Germi: "The variations I've composed on the graceful Neapolitan ditty, 'Oh Mamma, Mama Cara,' outshine everything. I…
— Niccolo Paganini
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My veins are filled, once a week with a Neapolitan carpet cleaner distilled from the Adriatic and I am as bald as an egg. However…
— John Cheever
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Most commonly revolt is born of material circumstances; but insurrection is always a moral phenomenon. Revolt is Masaniello, who led the Neapolitan insurgents in 1647;…
— Victor Hugo
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For nine miles along a submerged ridge, the corals rise in lumpy hillocks that spread out 100 yards or more, resembling heaped scoops of rainbow…
— James Dwight Dana
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The variations I've composed on the graceful Neapolitan ditty, 'Oh Mamma, Mama Cara,' outshine everything. I can't describe it
— Niccolo Paganini
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I have a concept of Naples that is not so much of a city, per se, but rather an ingredient of the human spirit that…
— Luciano De Crescenzo
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In America most everybody who's Italian is half Italian. Except me. I'm all Italian. I'm mostly Sicilian, and I have a little bit of Neapolitan…
— Al Pacino
Who Wrote These Neapolitan Quotes
6 authors contributed a total of 7 Neapolitan Quotes as follows: