Italian Quote by Mark Lamonica

“From the distance of England the Italian cuisine seems to be all things to all people. It does not expect you to bend to…

— Rachel Cusk

“I knew, of course, that I should be well paid for my services, but I would gladly have accepted half the sum I expected…

— Catherine Crowe

“For a group of nationalist intellectuals much later in history to have sat down and decided that Dante’s Italian would now be the official…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Italy during Shakespeare's time had citizens of all cultures and colors. To pretend that it did not is ignorance. And I don't waste my…

— Shonda Rhimes

Shakespeare wouldn't have been any good if he'd stayed in Stratford. He had to go to London to be bathed in the full current…

— John Dos Passos

“But Italy worked some marvel in her. It gave her light, and – which he held more precious – it gave her shadow. Soon…

— E.M. Forster

“...the pride taken by the Italians in their gifted women is among the most important facts in the history of their Renaissance.”

— Walter Shaw Sparrow

Shakespeare is, essentially, the emanation of the Renaissance. The overflow of his fame on the Continent in later years was but the sequel of…

— George Edward Woodberry

You can find more traditional Shakespeare than we do. But what we want to bring to these works is energy, passion, freshness.

— John Bradshaw

“It is surely significant, for instance, that Romeo and Juliet was written at around the same time as The Merchant of Venice, a play…

— William Shakespeare

“Just as Shakespeare filled his works with straightforward storylines, sex, violence, and bawdy jokes for the “groundlings” (the uneducated peasants who stood or sat…

— Benjamin Blech

“How we lavish our money and worship on Shakespeare without in the least knowing why!”

— George Bernard Shaw