Leave Italy

Famous quotes containing the words leave and/or italy:

“I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed—they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!”
—Orson Welles (1915–84)