Renaissance Italy Quotes

#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. Compassion is the litmus test.

Judith Hanson Lasater

#3. Pirates worked to avoid violence and fighting.

Robert Kurson

#4. Success is not final, failure is not fatal. It is the courage to carry on that counts.
Winston Churchill

H.A. Corby

#5. The pride taken by the Italians in their gifted women is among the most important facts in the history of their Renaissance.

Walter Shaw Sparrow

#6. Are you sure it wasn't my sexy-as-hell voice whispering in your ear that caused your momentary lack of oxygen?

Abbi Glines

#7. There's no big splashy renaissance in Italian films. We have good young actors and directors. What we lack are screenwriters. It's hard to write about Italy.

Valeria Golino

#8. He'll eat you alive, shit you out and then piss on his dump.

John Green

#9. Be careful not to mistake insecurity and inadequacy for humility! Humility has nothing to do with the insecure and inadequate! Just like arrogance has nothing to do with greatness!

C. JoyBell C.

#10. When in doubt, win the trick.

Edmond Hoyle

#11. The Renaissance of Europe did not take place in the 15th century. Rather it began when Europe learned from the culture of the Arabs. The cradle of European awakening is not Italy. It is the Muslim Spain.

Robert Briffault

#12. Put yourself in the position of an up-and-coming artist living in early-sixteenth-century Italy. Now imagine trying to distinguish yourself from the other artists living in your town: Michelangelo, Raphael, Leonardo, or Titian. Is it any wonder that the Italian High Renaissance lasted only 30 years?

Jerry Saltz

#13. If you let them kill you, they will

Charles Bukowski

#14. Too much knowing is misery.

Lorenzo De' Medici

#15. Hope is the light through which we see the future.

Debasish Mridha

#16. When you can't follow a ballet's action, you can always read the program notes.

Robert Gottlieb

#17. Mister Hendricks [was] manning a rotating-barreled minigun fixed to the deck of the helicopter
completely illegally, of course.
But then, I suppose that's really one major advantage to working with criminals. They just don't care about that sort of thing.

Jim Butcher

#18. The soul exists partly in eternity and partly in time.

Marsilio Ficino

#19. sometimes when we say out loud what we fear, our fears become reality.

Eva Wiseman

#20. Why do we think love is a magician? Because the whole power of magic consists in love. The work of magic is the attraction of one thing by another because of a certain affinity of nature.

Marsilio Ficino

#21. Atop a Ferris wheel, Orson Welles told Joseph Cotten how Italy's thirty years of war and terror and bloodshed had produced the Renaissance and Michelangelo, and how Switzerland's five hundred years of democracy and peace had produced, goddamn, only the cuckoo clock.

Kevin Wilson

#22. Love is the linchpin that connects the material world with higher levels of existence.

Julianne Davidow