Neapolitan Quotes

7 quotes by 6 authors

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The variations I've composed on the graceful Neapolitan ditty, 'Oh Mamma, Mama Cara,' outshine everything. I can't describe it — Niccolo Paganini
• 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
• 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:

• 2 Neapolitan Quotes by Niccolo Paganini
• 1 Neapolitan Quote by John Cheever
• 1 Neapolitan Quote by Victor Hugo
• 1 Neapolitan Quote by James Dwight Dana
• 1 Neapolitan Quote by Luciano De Crescenzo
• 1 Neapolitan Quote by Al Pacino