To rage and mock is gentlemanly, to grumble and whine is not.

- Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa

Love. Of course, love. Flames for a year, ashes for thirty.

- Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa

If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.

- Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa

All this shouldn't last; but it will, always; the human 'always' of course, a century, two centuries... and after that it will be different, but wors…

- Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa

If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

- Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa

As always the thought of his own death calmed him as much as that of others disturbed him: was it perhaps because, when all was said and done, his ow…

- Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa

A house of which one knew every room wasn't worth living in.

- Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa

Nowhere has truth such a short life as in Sicily; a fact has scarcely happened five minutes before its genuine kernel has vanished, been camouflaged,…

- Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa