Italian Quote by Violet Trefusis

If I had been an Italian I am sure that I should have been whole-heartedly with you from the start to finish in your…

— Winston Churchill

Repetita iuvant. Italy, a land of great saints, poets, sailors, artists, statesmen, businessmen, lawyers, intellectuals, professors, journalists, whores, gangsters, religious parasites and dickheads.

— William C. Brown

The English language is direct, unapologetic, and wonderfully amoral. Italian has a beautiful sound, but you cannot help but feel that you are always…

— Chiara Barzini

The whole life of a philosopher is the meditation of his death.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“If citta is the sea, its movements (vrttis) are the ripples. Body, mind and consciousness are in communion with the soul; they are now…

— B.K.S. Iyengar

A philosopher is a fool who torments himself while he is alive, to be talked of after he is dead.

— Jean le Rond d'Alembert

“However reluctant Italians are to embrace a multiracial society, the old antipathy to government and authority works in favor of the illegal alien.”

— Tim Parks

“Years later he would add that Italians have “no other aim than to live” because they “discovered a long time ago that there is…

— Gerald Martin

I am desperately Italian. I believe in the function of Latinity.

— Benito Mussolini

In every philosophical school, three thinkers succeed one another in the following way: the first produces out of himself the sapand seed, the second…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A Body, fragile, easily broken. A Heart, shattered, yet always spoken. A Mind, Profound, yet Scattered, at a cost. And a Soul, burning, free,…

— Eric Nickel

Sorrento, August. For two weeks now I haven't heard a German word or understood an Italian one. This way one can manage to live…

— Karl Kraus