I do not take any pleasure whatsoever in being a famous person. – Donna Leon
I never wanted to be rich or successful or famous. I just wanted to be happy and have fun. – Donna Leon
I do not take any pleasure whatsoever in being a famous person. – Donna Leon
I never wanted to be rich or successful or famous. I just wanted to be happy and have fun. – Donna Leon
Italians know about human nature – they understand human nature perhaps better than anyone else does. They know that people are weak and greedy and lazy and dishonest and they just try to make the best of it to work around it. – Donna Leon
I came to Venice for the first time in 1968 and was lucky enough to make the acquaintanceship, and then the friendship, of two Venetians, Roberta and Franco, who remain my best friends here after almost 50 years. – Donna Leon
Moreover, behind this vague tendency to treat religion as a side issue in modern life, there exists a strong body of opinion that is actively hostile to Christianity and that regards the destruction of positive religion as absolutely necessary to the advance of modern culture. – Christopher Dawson