#italy

No part of Italian society should see itself as exempt from the effort to save Italy from collapse. ↗

— Giorgio Napolitano

#effort #exempt #italian #italy #itself

Mr. Herriton, don’t – please, Mr. Herriton – a dentist. His father’s a dentist.” Philip gave a cry of personal disgust and pain. He shuddered all over, and edged away from his companion. A dentist! A dentist at Monteriano. A dentist in fairyland! False teeth and laughing gas and the tilting chair at a place which knew the Etruscan League, and the Pax Romana, and Alaric himself, and the Countess Matilda, and the Middle Ages, all fighting and holiness, and the Renaissance, all fighting and beauty! He thought of Lilia no longer. He was anxious for himself: he feared that Romance might die. ↗

— E.M. Forster

#disgust #italy #romance #age

The Vatican is a dagger in the heart of Italy. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#heart #italy #vatican

We arrived in Argentina with a lot of injured players, including our goalkeeper. Also we were unlucky to be drawn in the same group as the two tournament favourites Italy and Argentina. ↗

— Michel Patini

#argentina #arrived #drawn #favourites #goalkeeper

To this day the Arab influence is evident in southern Italy, northern Africa and, above all, in Spain. ↗

— Carroll Quigley

#africa #arab #day #evident #influence

You don't become a saint until you lead a good life whether in Tibet or Italy or America. ↗

— Kenneth Rexroth

#become #good #good life #italy #lead

The most stylish country in the world is Italy. ↗

— Nick Rhodes

#italy #most #stylish #world

I think I feel automatically at home in Italy. ↗

— Boyd Rice

#feel #home #i #i feel #i think

A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#been #conscious #inferiority #italy #man

Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood. ↗

— Erica Jong

#church #circus #country #deserves #every