Italy

For wheresoe'er I turn my ravish'd eyes,And still I seem to tread on classic ground.

— Italy

Italy, my Italy!"Open my heart and you will see Graved inside of it, 'Italy.'"

— Italy

Ungrateful Florence! Dante sleeps afar,Like Scipio, buried by the upbraiding shore.

— Italy

Venice once was dear,The revel of the earth, the masque of Italy.

— Italy

Italy's youngsters complain, apparently, about having to live at home until they are 72 but that's because they spend all their money on suits and coffee and Alfa Romeos rather than mortgages.

— Italy

Beyond the Alps lies Italy.

— Italy

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.

— Italy

[of the Sicilians] They never want to improve. They think themselves perfect. Their vanity is greater than their misery.

— Italy

France exists so that you can drive to Italy.

— Italy

We who have seen Italia in the throes, ruinous discords, with one lustrous aim.

— Italy

On desperate seas long wont to roam,And the grandeur that was Rome.

— Italy

My soul to-daySailing the Vesuvian Bay

— Italy

Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.

— Italy

How beautiful is sunset when the glowThou Paradise of exiles, Italy!

— Italy

Some jay of Italy,Poor I am stale, a garment out of fashion.

— Italy

Report of fashions in proud Italy, Whose manners still our apish nation Limps after in base imitation.

— Italy

Enough, enough, enough! Say no more! Lump the whole thing! say the Creator made Italy from designs by Michael Angelo!

— Italy

You may have the universe if I may have Italy.

— Italy

In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed - they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love and five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!

— Italy