Top 23 Florentine Quotes
#1. Why do I write today? The beauty of the terrible faces of our nonentities stirs me to it: colored women day workers- old and experienced- returning home at dusk, in cast off clothing faces like old Florentine oak.
William Carlos Williams
#2. Ever word collector sure know that feeling, whether you've been catching songs or poems or stories. You've been caught in the magic. -Florentine
Natalie Lloyd
#3. We had need to borrow that fantastic glass,invented by Galileo the Florentine
To view another spacious world in the moon
and look to find a constant woman there
John Webster
#4. When I walk up the piazza of Santa Croce I feel as if it were not a Florentine nor an European church but a church built by and for the human race.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#5. In my opinion painters owe to Giotto, the Florentine painter, exactly the same debt they owe to nature, which constantly serves them as a model and whose finest and most beautiful aspects they are always striving to imitate and reproduce.
Giorgio Vasari
#6. The blue sky blushed to see such passionate lovemaking, while the Florentine sun smiled down, warming the lovers despite the gentle breeze.
Sylvain Reynard
#7. From one point of view it is an appeal to future ages from Florentine injustice and ingratitude; from another, it is a long and passionate plea with his native town to shake her in her stubborn cruelty.
Dante Alighieri
#8. The painting was food. He wanted to caress it, hold it in his hands, lick its glazed surface, plunge into it, dive into the Florentine light. Years vanished, decades were erased, and he was again the boy who had come here to the feast of art.
Pete Hamill
#9. All ideas advanced to deal with the Florentine noise problem, the Florentine traffic problem, are Utopian, and nobody believes in them, just as nobody believed in Machiavelli's Prince, a Utopian image of the ideally self-interested despot.
Mary McCarthy
#10. Florentine cuisine is surely something worth discovering. I believe I learned a lot about Florentine culture and traditions from observing how they live their relationship with food.
Elaine Bertolotti
#11. The famous Florentine elegance, which attracts tourists to the shops on Via Tornabuoni and Via della Vigna Nuova, is characterized by austerity of line, simplicity, economy of effect.
Mary McCarthy
#13. Valet had reminded him several times of the lateness of the hour, he got up, and going into the next room, placed the book on the little Florentine table that always stood
Oscar Wilde
#14. Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go,
Wendy Owens
#15. You're not getting the b-level tunes. Our most recent producer, Danger Mouse, was quite sure about that. So you're getting the best of the best, the cream of the cream of what we have to offer.
Anthony Kiedis
#16. Relationships take skill, not perfection or luck!
Staci Bartley
#17. The family is where we are formed as people. Every family is a brick in the building of society
Pope Francis
#18. She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.
Gail Parent
#19. It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.
H.L. Mencken
#20. Whoever stubbornly refuses to accept criticism will suddenly be broken beyond repair.
Solomon
#21. There is nothing as dead and as damned as an important thing. The things that really matter are casual, insignificant little things.
Patrick Kavanagh
#22. Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism.
Criss Jami
#23. There is no good or evil, save in the way you see the world. There is no dark or light save in your own.
Juliet Marillier
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