37 Quotes About Florence

Even a magnificent city such as Florence becomes more intriguing if there is a demon at work in the alleys.

Visiting Florence was like attending a surprise party every day.

Florence is actually a very fateful city. Often one has a sense of Florence answering one back, if you know what I mean.

Sometimes I find that music is so much more attractive than love. I don’t know… It’s like some kind of euphoria, that love can’t bring to you.

Meanwhile, Florence was increasingly becoming, for different reasons that not were not foreign to one another nor opposed – artistic and cultural on the one hand and political on the other – the Mecca of travelers and foreign residents.

Florence had the Alberti fighting for freedom, but never had real Jacobins. It experienced the Viva Maria insurrections, but never really witnessed strong extremist passions. Using the comparison of the colours universally celebrated by Stendhal, we can say that the Florentine red rather resembled a pink and that the black looked more like a grey.

...Carlina with her cat-like eyes who didn't fit into any category he knew. (Commissario Garini's difficulty with his prime suspect.)

If he (Peter O'Toole) had been any prettier it would have been Florence of Arabia.

In Florence, classical buildings sit against medieval buildings. It's that contrast we like.