20 Quotes by Indro Montanelli

Italian husbands, in order to buy their wives a fur, spend more than all their European collegues.

Also we Italians have something to Elvis Presley: to offer one of the rare occasions when we prefer to be Italian rather than American.

The love of power excludes all others.

It isn’t necessary to be socialists in order to love Pertini. Whatever he says or does, smells of cleanliness, of loyalty and of sincerity.

Depression is a democratic sickness: it afflicts everyone.

Pertini has interpreted as their best the worst about Italians.

Which ever one of you will want to become a journalist, let him remember to choose his own master: the reader.

I know many crooks and they never preach, but I don’t know anyone who preaches that isn’t a crook also.

The nice thing about political pundits is that, when they answer a question, one no longer understands what they were asked.