17 Quotes That Will Make You Dream of Italy

I am dreaming of a return to Italy every single day. Are you?? Well then take a look at these 17 quotes about Italy on life, art, culture, travel and love that will make you dream of Il Bel Paese. They are enough to give you itchy feet and inspiration for your ever growing Italy wish list. And they are appropriate for an Instagram caption too! 🙂

17 Quotes that will make you Dream of Italy

As they ate, they spoke of eating, as always happens in Italy.

andrea camilleri, author

You may have the universe if I may have Italy.

Giuseppe Verdi, Composer

The Creator made Italy from designs by Michaelangelo.

Mark Twain, writer

In Italy, they add work and life on to food and wine.

 Robin Leach, Writer

What is the fatal charm of Italy? What do we find there that can be found nowhere else? I believe it is a certain permission to be human, which other places, other countries, lost long ago.

Erica Jong, Novelist

The name of Italy has magic in its very syllables.

Mary Shelley, writer

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, Writer

When life gives you twists and turns, chique yourself up in Italy!

Barbara Conelli

I love the simplicity, the ingredients, the culture, the history and the seasonality of Italian cuisine. In Italy people do not travel. They cook the way grandma did, using fresh ingredients and what is available in season.”

Anne Burrell, TV chef

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

– Bertrand Russell, Philosopher

Open my heart and you will see graved inside of it, Italy.

Robert Browning, Poet

Even today in a world expanding and exploding into the future, Italy still reminds us of essential truths about who we are what we can rise toward.

Dianne hales, author

If Italy had a navel, it would be Piazza Venezia. On one side looms the grandiose structure that foreigners know as the Victor Emmanuel Monument, but the real name of which is Altare della Patria, or Altar of the Fatherhood.

John hooper, author

And let us not remember Italy the less regardfully, because, in every fragment of her fallen Temples, and every stone of her deserted palaces and prisons, she helps to inculcate the lesson that the wheel of Time is rolling for an end, and that the world is, in all great essentials, better, gentler, more forbearing, and more hopeful, as it rolls.

charles dickens, writer

Italy is a story that always starts with “In the beginning there was already something before you think is the beginning.”

wallis wilde-menozzi, writer

The beach is a good outline sketch of Italy. Get changed, look around, and don’t worry if people stare at you.

beppe severgnini, writer

Italy is a dream that keeps returning for the rest of your life.

anna akhmatova, poet

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