Quotes by Italian Authors - Page 2

When you are a mother you are never really alone in your thoughts ... A mother has to think twice once for herself and once for her child.
Sophia Loren
As it is our nature to be more moved by hope than fear the example of one we see abundantly rewarded cheers and encourages us far more than the sight of many who have not been well treated disquiets us.
Francesco Guicciardini
Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other
Pietro Metastasio
One never finds anything perfectly pure and ... exempt from danger.
Niccolò Machiavelli
Every true man sir who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants lives so as to give a meaning and a value to his own life.
Luigi Pirandello
You must be holy in the way God asks you to be holy. God does not ask you to be a Trappist monk or a hermit. He wills that you sanctify your everyday life.
Saint Vincent Pallotti
A man like Verdi must write like Verdi.
Giuseppe Verdi
The search for a new personality is futile what is fruitful is the human interest the old personality can take in new activities.
Cesare Pavese
Nobody is so miserable as he who longs to be somebody other than the person he is.
Angelo Patri
There is always a certain peace in being what one is in being that completely. The condemned man has that joy.
Ugo Betti
People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which they are not.
Giacomo Leopardi
I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you.
Luigi Pirandello
There is no greater sorrow than to recall a happy time in the midst of wretchedness.
Dante Alighieri
I think that one can have luck if one tries to create an atmosphere of spontaneity.
Federico Fellini
You too must not count overmuch on your reality as you feel it today since like that of yesterday it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow.
Luigi Pirandello
Automatic simply means that you can't repair it yourself.
Frank Capra
He who never leaves his country is full of prejudices.
Carlo Goldoni
Do as we say and not as we do.
Giovanni Boccaccio
Grant that we may not so much seek to be understood as to understand.
Saint Francis of Assisi
Don't try to reach God with your understanding that is impossible. Reach him in love that is possible.
Carlo Carretto
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
Jacopo Sannazaro
Our minds can shape the way a thing will be because we act according to our expectations.
Federico Fellini
Trifles make perfection and perfection is no trifle.
Michelangelo
Happy are those lovers who when their senses require rest can fall back upon the intellectual enjoyments afforded by the mind! Sweet sleep then comes and lasts until the body has recovered its general harmony. On awaking the senses are again active and always ready to resume their action.
Giacomo Casanova
A good painter is to paint two main things namely men and the working of man's mind.
Leonardo da Vinci
Just as courage imperils life fear protects it.
Leonardo da Vinci
In order to feel anything you need strength.
Anna Maria Ortese
Every time I start a picture ... I feel the same fear the same self-doubts . . . and I have only one source on which I can draw because it comes from within me.
Federico Fellini
If every man's internal care Were written on his brow How many would our pity share Who raise our envy now?
Pietro Metastasio
In all climates under all skies man's happiness is always somewhere else.
Giacomo Leopardi
Utter originality is of course out of the question.
Ezra Pound
Come let us give a little time to folly ... and even in a melancholy day let us find time for an hour of pleasure.
Saint Bonaventura
Killing time is the chief end of our society.
Ugo Betti
Noble blood is an accident of fortune noble actions characterize the great.
Carlo Goldoni
He turns not back who is bound to a star.
Leonardo da Vinci
Obstacles cannot crush me every obstacle yields to stern resolve.
Leonardo da Vinci
A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart.
Pietro Aretino
They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves with contentment.
Pietro Aretino
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
Maria Montessori
How wonderful opera would be if there were no singers.
Gioacchino Rossini
Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour.
Gioacchino Rossini
You know what you do when you shit singing is the same thing only up!
Enrico Caruso
One cannot judge 'Lohengrin' from a first hearing and I certainly do not intend to hear it a second time.
Gioacchino Rossini
God tells me how he wants the music played - and you get in his way.
Arturo Toscanini
There is always a certain peace in being what one is in being that completely.
Ugo Betti
The search for a new personality is futile what is fruitful is the human interest the old personality can take in new activities.
Cesare Pavese
Nobody is so miserable as he who longs to be somebody other than the person he is.
Angelo Patri
There is always a certain peace in being what one is in being that completely. The condemned man has that joy.
Ugo Betti
People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which they are not.
Giacomo Leopardi
I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you.
Luigi Pirandello
There is no greater sorrow than to recall a happy time in the midst of wretchedness.
Dante Alighieri
I think that one can have luck if one tries to create an atmosphere of spontaneity.
Federico Fellini
You too must not count overmuch on your reality as you feel it today since like that of yesterday it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow.
Luigi Pirandello
Automatic simply means that you can't repair it yourself.
Frank Capra
He who never leaves his country is full of prejudices.
Carlo Goldoni
Do as we say and not as we do.
Giovanni Boccaccio
Grant that we may not so much seek to be understood as to understand.
Saint Francis of Assisi
Don't try to reach God with your understanding that is impossible. Reach him in love that is possible.
Carlo Carretto
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
Jacopo Sannazaro
Our minds can shape the way a thing will be because we act according to our expectations.
Federico Fellini