Each of us, face to face with other men, is clothed with some sort of dignity, but we know only too well all the unspeakable things that go on in the heart. – Luigi Pirandello
Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time. – Luigi Pirandello
Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels. – Luigi Pirandello
Life is little more than a loan shark: It exacts a very high rate of interest for the few pleasures it concedes. – Luigi Pirandello
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. – Graham Greene and Orson Wells, The Third Man