Quotes by Italian Authors - Page 3

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
Where the willingness is great the difficulties cannot be great.
Niccolò Machiavelli
Where the willingness is great the difficulties cannot be great.
Niccolò Machiavelli
Diplomacy is the art of letting someone have your way.
Daniele Varè
You will accomplish more by kind words and a courteous manner than by anger or sharp rebuke which should never be used except in necessity.
Angela Merici
Beware of trying to accomplish anything by force.
Angela Merici
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
I get up and I bless the light thin clouds and the first twittering of birds and the breathing air and smiling face of the hills.
Giacomo Leopardi
Moral indignation is in most cases 2% moral 48% indignation and 50% envy.
Vittorio de Sica
When I was very young I kissed my first woman and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. Believe me never since have I wasted any more time on tobacco.
Arturo Toscanini
There never was such beauty in another man. Nature made him and then broke the mould.
Ariosto
Destiny is the invention of the cowardly and the resigned.
Ignazio Silone
Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
Cesare Pavese
If I advance follow me! If I retreat cut me down! If I die avenge me!
Benito Mussolini
A vague uneasiness the police. It's like when you suddenly understand you have to undress in front of the doctor.
Ugo Betti
You may have the universe if I may have Italy.
Temistocle Solera
It is not possible for Christians to take part in anti-Semitism. We are Semites spiritually.
Pope Pius XI
The common sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.
Leonardo da Vinci
Bacchus has drowned more men than Neptune.
Giuseppe Garibaldi
None of us can estimate what we do when we do it from instinct.
Luigi Pirandello
When I do things without any explanation but just with spontaneity ... I can be sure that I am right.
Federico Fellini
In an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.
Machiavelli
Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing. Advance with it!
Guiseppe Mazzini
The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crisis maintain their neutrality.
Dante Alighieri
He who imitates what is evil always goes beyond the example that is set on the contrary he who imitates what is good always falls short.
Francesco Guicciardini
Men are always averse to enterprises in which they foresee difficulties.
Niccolò Machiavelli
See everything: overlook a great deal: correct a little.
Pope John XXIII
I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you.
Luigi Pirandello
Abandon hope all ye who enter here.
Dante Alighieri
Noble acts and momentous events happen in the same way and produce the same impression as the ordinary facts.
Roberto Rossellini
Anything done for another is done for oneself.
Boniface VIII
We must give alms. Charity wins souls and draws them to virtue.
Angela Merici
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
Maria Montessori
Establishing lasting peace is the work of education all politics can do is keep us out of war.
Maria Montessori
The greatness of the human personality begins at the hour of birth. From this almost mystic affirmation there comes what may seem a strange conclusion: that education must start from birth.
Maria Montessori
He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it.
Dante Alighieri
Love is a great poet its resources are inexhaustible but if the end it has in view is not obtained it feels weary and remains silent.
Giacomo Casanova
The greatest happiness of the greatest number.
Cesare Beccaria
But here's what I've learned in this war in this country in this city: to love the miracle of having been born.
Oriana Fallaci