Methinks I will not die quite happy without having seen something of that Rome of which I have read so much. Sir Walter Scott, a Scottish writer....
Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy gets the Catholic Church. America gets Hollywood. Erica Jong, an American writer and poet....
They entered Rome, not on a fine day, not on a fine night, but on a dark evening, in dreary weather which makes everything dull and indistinct. They crossed the Tiber without noticing it; they entered...
Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go. Truman Capote, an American writer....
After Leonardo’s portrait discovered in 2009, and the imminent conclusion about what may be the remains of Mona Lisa, this is probably the next most important artistic discovery of the last few ...
I reached the Alps: the soul within me burned Italia, my Italia, at thy name: And when from out the mountain’s heart I came And saw the land for which my life had yearned, I laughed as one who some gr...
The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at. Jonathan Swift, an English satyrist...
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin. Henry Louis Mencken, an American writer and prose stylist, the “Sage of Baltimore”....
Credit: RLS website You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it or perish; and if it be so, why not now, and where you stand. Robert Louis Stevenson, a British (Scottish) author....
He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius. William Gilmore Simms, an American novelist, poet, and historian....