Antiquity Quote by Oleg Cassini

We can appreciate but not really understand the medieval town. We cannot comprehend its compactness, the contiguity of all its buildings as a single…

— Arthur Erickson

Florence and Milan had given him ideas more flexible than those of people who'd stayed at home.

— Hilary Mantel

“He was an indecent man, I told myself - prayerfully - and then I prayed for him to become decent.”

— Kelsey Brickl

People think me a sort of Florence Nightingale, but I have no heroic qualities. I simply don’t feel very much.

— Franny Billingsley

Although I studied Dante's Inferno as a student, it wasn't until recently, while researching in Florence, that I came to appreciate the enduring influence…

— Dan Brown

“Broke your jaw once before Spilt your blood upon the floor You broke my leg in return So let's sit back and watch the…

— Florence Welch

“at Florence which included diplomatic missions to various European courts. Imprisoned”

— Niccolo Machiavelli

I often compare Margaret Thatcher with Florence Nightingale. She stalks through the wards of our hospitals as a lady with a lamp. Unfortunately, it's…

— Denis Healey

“Florence which included diplomatic missions to various European courts.”

— Niccolo Machiavelli

I've always considered Florence as my girlfriend. I don't have to explain my love for this city.

— Gabriel Batistuta

You look around the world at geniuses, and they don't appear randomly, they appear in genius clusters. Athens in 50 BC, Florence 1500, Silicon…

— Eric Weiner

And the voices in the waves are always whispering to Florence, in their ceaseless murmuring, of love - of love, eternal and illimitable, not…

— Charles Dickens