Neapolitan Novels Quotes & Sayings

Its attitude, which it has preached and practiced, is skepticism. Now, it finds, the public is applying that skepticism to the press. — Thomas Griffith

I shall go further and say that even if an examination of the past could lead to any valid prediction concerning man's future, that prediction would be the contrary of reassuring. — Julien Benda

Evil wishes, like chickens, come home to roost. — Aesop

There is nothing more real and more important in life than the love that we give away and the love that we receive. — Debasish Mridha

The Neapolitan novels have a lot of references to things outside, to things of the world, to culture, politics, the city of Naples. People have mentioned that Naples is like a character in the novels. — Ann Goldstein

I suppose things are better now, but ... I don't know. People still hate each other, they just know how to hide it better. — Steve Buscemi

The bushes puzzled him, they were so big, almost trees, some twice his height, and there seemed so many. They were planted all along the edges of the towering droop-limbed hemlocks that sheltered the place, and in the acres sheltered there were dozens of great rectangular clumps like loaves of porous green bread. The bushes were evergreen. With their zigzag branches and long oval leaves fingering in every direction they seemed to belong to a different climate, to a different land, whose gravity pulled softer than this one. — John Updike