185 Quotes About European

Venice, it's temples and palaces did seem like fabrics of enchantment piled to heaven.

Timeo hominem unius mulieris. (''A man who keeps to one woman is formidable.'')

You alone in Europe are not ancient oh Christianity The most modern European is you Pope Pius X And you whom the windows observe shame keeps youFrom entering a church and confessing this morning You read the prospectuses the catalogues the billboards that sing aloud That's the poetry this morning and for the prose there are the newspapersThere are the 25 centime serials full of murder mysteries Portraits of great men and a thousand different headlines("Zone")

European identity, it seems, is only perceived by educated people. And that is sad, but it is a start.

Even the narrow canals around the Rialto teemed with floating shops- a small barge piled with jumbled green grapes, a boat heaped with oranges and limes, and another listing under a mountain of melons. I jogged along, drunk on all the colors and smells of the known world: pyramids of blood oranges from Greece, slender green beans from Morocco, sun-ripened cherries from Provence, giant white cabbages from Germany, fat black dates from Constantinople, and shiny purple eggplants from Holland.

Bulgaria, I reflected as I walked back to the hotel, isn’t a country; it’s a near-death experience.

Would you like to become my wife?""Imbecile! What a question. It's my greatest dream!!!

It touched me to be trusted with something terrible.

Look at the truth from how it stands, not where it comes from. The truth is still the truth no matter whether it is spoken by an Indian, an American, a Chinese, an European, an African or an Australian!