Quotes about Italy
The Creator made Italy with designs by Michelangelo.
— Mark Twain
Greet all your leaders and all the saints. Those from Italy send you greetings.
— Hebrews 13:24
I think people in Italy live their lives better than we do. It's an older country, and they've learned to celebrate dinner and lunch, whereas we sort of eat as quickly as we can to get through it.
— George Clooney
There he found a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla because Claudius had ordered all the Jews to leave Rome. Paul went to visit them,
— Acts 18:2
A. D. 1560, pope Pius the Fourth, ordered all the protestants to be severely persecuted throughout the Italian states, when great numbers of every age, sex, and condition, suffered martyrdom.
— John Foxe
In due time the shores of Italy were sighted, and as we stood gazing from the decks, early in the bright summer morning, the stately city of Genoa rose up out of the sea and flung back the sunlight from her hundred palaces.
— Mark Twain
There the centurion found an Alexandrian ship sailing for Italy and put us on board.
— Acts 27:6
When it was decided that we would sail for Italy, Paul and some other prisoners were handed over to a centurion named Julius, who belonged to the Imperial Regiment.
— Acts 27:1
Italy is the home of art and swindling; home of religion and moral rottenness.
— Mark Twain
She had a right to his arm, though it was without feeling. He would give her, who was so simple, so impulsive, only twenty-four, without friends in England, who had left Italy for his sake, a piece of bone.
— Virginia Woolf
Dan said the other day to the guide, Enough, enough, enough! Say no more! Lump the whole thing! say that the Creator made Italy from designs by Michael Angelo!
— Mark Twain
No one could have told: all that was known was, that when he returned from Italy he was a priest.
— Victor Hugo