30 Beautiful Quotes About Italy
March 5, 2020
Lonielle De Haven
The world if full of fascinating places to visit, breathtaking views to see, interesting people to meet, and history to learn about. But in Italy there is something different. Something that so many throughout time have written about in hopes of trying to give a better understanding of just how incredibly magical it really is. There is something that stirs the soul in Italy. Something achingly beautiful, mysterious and mesmerizing that the soul doesn’t even know exists until it is wrapped up in and around it. And then. It. Knows. It finally understands what they have all been talking about…all been dreaming about. All been eating and drinking about. That wild calm. That loud peace. That magic. That perfect imperfection. Italy
I have felt THAT feeling so many times over the past few weeks while searching out, reading and selecting the quotes below. In my opinion, these are the ones that are the most “make you fall in love with Italy”, soul stirring ones around…and they have left me feeling like I need to go out and buy a plane ticket. I think you will want to too! The first quote is my favorite! Which one is yours?
You may have the world if I may have Italy
Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) - Italian opera composer
The name of Italy has magic in its very syllables.
Mary Shelley (1797-1851) - English Novelist
Italy offers one the most priceless of one's possessions - One's own soul
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1934-2002) - American Journalist and memoirist
Rome was a poem pressed into service as a city.
Anatole Broyard (1920-1990) - American writer and literary critic
Methinks I will not die quite happy without having seen something of that Rome.
Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) - Scottish historical novelist, poet and playwright
If we could be reborn wherever we chose, how crowded Rome would be, populated by souls who had spent their previous lives longing to inhabit a villa on the Janiculum Hill.
Francine Prose - American novelist and short story writer
Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There’s no looking at a building after seeing Italy.
Fanny Burney (1752-1840) - English novelist and playwright
A man who has not been in Italy is always conscious of an inferiority, from his not having seen what it is expected a man should see
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) - English writer, poet and playwright
How beautiful is sunset, when the glow of Heaven descends upon a land like thee, Thou Paradise of exiles, Italy!
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) - English romantic poet
“The Creator made Italy from designs by Michaelangelo.”
Mark Twain (1835-1910) - American Writer and publisher
I find other countries have this or this, but Italy is the only one that has it all for me. The culture, the cuisine, the people, the landscape, the history. Just everything to me comes together there.
Frances Mayes - American novelist, memoirist and professor
A man has not fully lived until he experiences that gentle balmy climate of ancient empires, the land of lemon trees and the genius of Michelangelo.
E.A. Bucchianeri - American writer
Life is a combination of magic and pasta
Federico Fellini (1920-1993) - Italian Film directer and screenwriter
Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvelous than the land.
E. M. Forster (1879-1970) - English Novelist and short story writer
Italy was where the soul went to find calm and love, and I wanted to hold the best of it in the palm of my hand.
Lisa Brennan-Jobs - american writer
I gasp for air if I don’t get to breathe Italian air once a year.
Danny Meyer - American Businessman and restaurateur
Open my heart and you will see Graved inside of it, "Italy".
Robert Browning (1812-1889) - English Poet and Playwright
Venice is eternity itself.
Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996) - Russian-American poet
All of Venice is tattered, resewn, achingly lovely, and like an enchantress, she disarms me, making off with the very breath of me.
Marlena de Blasi - American novelist and memoirist
Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.
Truman Capote (1924-1984) - American novelist, screenwriter and playwright
Venice never quite seems real, but rather an ornate film set suspended on the water.
Frida Giannini - Italian fashion designer
Venice, it’s temples and palaces did seem like fabrics of enchantment piled to heaven.
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) - English romantic poet
So… Italian gelato. Take the deliciousness of a regular ice-cream cone, times it by a million, then sprinkle it with crushed-up unicorn horns.
Jenna Evans Welch - American writer
In America, one must be something, but in Italy one can simply be.
Pietros Maneos - American-italian poet and model
Italian culture is so deeply soaked in an appreciation of the good things in life.
Mariska Hargitay - American actress
Wasting time is something that people do or feel all over the world, not just in Italy.
Paolo Sorrentino - Italian film director, screenwriter and writer
Maybe money can’t buy happiness, but it can get you a nice little villa in Tuscany, and that’s close enough for me.
Lois Greiman - American writer
Even now I miss Italy dearly, I dream about it every night.
Eila Hiltunen (1922-2003) - Finnish sculpter
For sure, in Italy, the sun always shines.
Aleksandar Mitrovic - serbian professional soccer player
Italy is a dream that keeps returning for the rest of your life
Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966) - Soviet Russian Poet
Happy Dreaming and happy travels!
A presto,
Lonielle
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