Sicily Quotes
23 quotes by 23 authors
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What makes these special Beaujolais attractive is the same thing that has always made Beaujolais attractive: the price. Given the insane prices of so many…
— Frank J. Prial
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Three quarters of the American population literally believe in religious miracles. The numbers who believe in the devil, in resurrection, in God doing this and…
— Noam Chomsky
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To have seen Italy without having seen Sicily is to not have seen Italy at all, for Sicily is the clue to everything.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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One usually dies because one is alone, or because one has got into something over one's head. One often dies because one does not have…
— Giovanni Falcone
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I hate and detest Sicily in so far as I love it, and in so far as it does not respond to the kind of…
— Leonardo Sciascia
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My friend told me he was going to a fancy dress party as an Italian island. I said to him, ‘Don’t be Sicily’.
— Tim Vine
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My grandfather was a chef for a Baron in Sicily before he came to America. I grew up with him. I used to do my…
— Vincent Schiavelli
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Misgovernment is of four kinds, often in combination. They are: 1) tyranny or oppression, of which history provides so many well-known examples that they do…
— Barbara Tuchman
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Sometimes, if you want to be happy, you've got to run away to Bath and marry a punk rocker. Sometimes you've got to dye your…
— Julie Powell
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Student journeys which were important to me were Sicily, Greece, and Egypt, where I really saw these buildings, and that is where you're able to…
— Ben Nicholson
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The peasants of Sicily, who have kept their own wheat and make their own natural brown bread, ah, it is amazing how fresh and sweet…
— D. H. Lawrence
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I think that my interpretation of Italian was a lot more southern than what my husband cooks. You know, I grew up in Queens and…
— Debi Mazar
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The failure of Christianity in the areas west from Sicily was even greater, and was increased by the spread of Arab outlooks and influence to…
— Carroll Quigley
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I was born in Messina, Sicily. I stayed there until I was 18 and finished my studies.
— Maria Grazia Cucinotta
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I had to inspect all fighter units in Russia, Africa, Sicily, France, and Norway. I had to be everywhere.
— Adolf Galland
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My family was all born in Sicily and I'm Italian-American. They're the real thing. They're authentic Italians, and honestly they're the most open-minded, nicest people…
— Vinny Guadagnino
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I collect church collapses, recreationally. Did you see the recent one in Sicily? Marvelous! The facade fell on sixty-five grandmothers at a special mass. Was…
— Thomas Harris
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I'll go to the south of Sicily in the winter, and paint memories of Arles – I'll buy a piano and Mozart me that –…
— Jack Kerouac
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In Sicily, women are more dangerous than shotguns.
— Mario Puzo
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Who would condescend to strike down the mere things that he does not fear? Who would debase himself to be merely brave, like any common…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
Who Wrote These Sicily Quotes
23 authors contributed a total of 23 Sicily Quotes as follows: