Bread Quote by Leonardo Sciascia

“A sort of melancholy, and regret, seizes us every time we meet a sophisticated, adulterated idiot. Oh the nice fools of yestertime! Genuine, natural. Like homemade bread.”

Leonardo Sciascia

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (7 ratings)

Bread Fool Genuine Homemade Idiot Melancholy Natural Nice Regret Sophisticated Stupidity Time

More by Leonardo Sciascia

“Translation is the other side of a tapestry.”

Leonardo Sciascia

Image

All of Sicily is a dimension of the imagination.

Leonardo Sciascia

Image

“…And the sound of the sea, like the wild-animal breath of the world itself, frightened them as it gasped and died at their feet.”

Leonardo Sciascia

Image

“il brigadiere cominciò a fare il suo lavoro di osservazione, in funzione del rapporto scritto che gli toccava poi fare: compito piuttosto ingrato sempre,…

Leonardo Sciascia

Image

I hate and detest Sicily in so far as I love it, and in so far as it does not respond to the kind…

Leonardo Sciascia

Image

“The only institution in the Sicilian conscience that really counts is the family; counts, that is to say, more as a dramatic juridical contract…

Leonardo Sciascia

Image

“Scientists say that the palm tree line, that is the climate suitable to growth of the palm, is moving north, five hundred metres, I…

Leonardo Sciascia

Image

“Maybe the whole of italy is becoming a sort of Sicily.”

Leonardo Sciascia

Image

“The Sicilian language is the only one in Europe that has no future tense. The island’s bitter legacy of conquest and revolt seems to…

Leonardo Sciascia

Image

“There's a proverb, a maxim, that runs, 'The dead man is dead; let's give a hand to the living.' Now, you say that to…

Leonardo Sciascia

Image

The best thing on translation was said by Cervantes: translation is the other side of a tapestry.

Leonardo Sciascia

Image

The truth is at the bottom of a well. You look in a well, and you see the sun or the moon, but if…

Leonardo Sciascia

Image

Explore all 13 Leonardo Sciascia quotes

More Bread quotes

French women don't eat Wonder Bread.

Mireille Guiliano

Image

In the olden days in England, you could be hung for stealing a sheep or a loaf of bread. However, if a sheep stole…

Mike Harding

Image

I don't eat meat - chicken, fish, none of that. I eat a lot of vegetable sandwiches, like lettuce, tomatoes, sprouts, cucumbers, whatever I…

Gza

Image

When I met you you were oh so sweet, now you give me the bread and you take all the meat.

Joan Jett

Image

When you fight to give your family bread, that's not passion anymore: that's conviction.

Yoel Romero

Image

I think the best Thanksgiving we ever had was one where we didn't even have a turkey. Mom and Dad sat us kids down…

Jack Handey

Image

Bread is a second cause; the LORD Himself is the first source of our sustenance. He can work without the second cause as well…

Anonymous

Image

Even if we have to go without bread, we Albanians do not violate principles. We do not betray Marxism - Leninism.

Enver Hoxha

Image

Man preys on man; and you mourn for the idle tapestry that decorated a gothic pillar, and the dronish bell that summoned the fat…

Mary Wollstonecraft

Image

Waffles аrе јust awesome bread.

John Green

Image

At my age, I don't buy but a half a loaf of bread, you know?

Merle Haggard

Image

Jesus Christ would have been considered just another long-haired hippie freak if he hadn't been crucified. The folks weren't impressed with healing the sick,…

Ted Turner

Image

Browse all 1,930 Bread quotes

Bread Quote by Leonardo Sciascia

Related quotes

More by Leonardo Sciascia

More Bread quotes