Quotes About The Borgias

#1. In Italy, for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, they had 500 years of democracy and peace - and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.

Yanko Tsvetkov

#2. Nothing went exactly right. And yet it was perfect.

Julie Cross

#3. My father says the family motto is, 'What would the Borgias do?' That explains a lot, actually.

Liana Brooks

#4. The great power of the Internet is it allows people who don't know each other ... to connect with people with shared interests. The shared interests might be that 'I have a kid with leukemia.' Or, 'I'm a Nazi.' It gives marginalized people more power.

Howard Rheingold

#5. Grammarians make no new thoughts, but thoughts make new grammar.

Dagobert D. Runes

#6. Whuf added the dragon.

Rick Cook

#7. 'The Borgias' is quite good because it does stick quite steadfastly to historical fact, so a lot of people who are interested in the historical element will love watching it, but they were also a ridiculously dramatic family.

Holliday Grainger

#8. Even after Independence, we have had to face the poison of casteism and communalism. How long these evils will continue? Whom does it benefit?

Narendra Modi

#9. The entire evolutionary record on our planet, particularly the record contained in fossil endocasts, illustrates a progressive tendency toward intelligence. There is nothing mysterious about this:
smart organisms by and large survive better and leave more offspring than stupid ones.

Carl Sagan

#10. A precious liquid, a poison dearer than that of the Borgias - because it is made from our blood, our health, our sleep, and two-thirds of our love - we must be stingy with it.

Charles Baudelaire

#11. Breakfast with the Borgias.

Agatha Christie

#12. I have an intense obsession with making films. I not only love to make films, I perhaps need to make films.

Jacqueline Bisset

#13. Pangloss taught metaphysico-theologo-cosmonigology.

Voltaire

#14. What's happened to me,' he thought. It was no dream.

Franz Kafka

#15. No Roman ever was able to say, 'I dined last night with the Borgias'.

Max Beerbohm

#16. Today, the Pope is only a religious figure. At the time of 'The Borgias,' he was also a political leader, a financial leader, and the head of an army. I think popes are much less relevant today than they were then.

Francois Arnaud

#17. Democratic governments are not suited to the publication of the thunderous revelations I am in the habit of making. The unpublished parts will appear later ... when Europe will have restored its traditional monarchies.

Salvador Dali

#18. Ah, he has too many ideas, that man da Vinci. His mind works faster than his hands.

Sarah Dunant

#19. I never advise anyone to sacrifice something else because of music, but then I don't see why they would have to anyway.

Mick Taylor

#20. One enemy at the time.

Sarah Dunant