Italo Calvino Quotes

I'm now the Lord of the Brighton Manor.

My stepfather is a baron. He has a castle in Belgium that's been in his family for hundreds and hundreds of years. It's not fancy; it's really sort of brimstone and dark. It's got a moat and a drawbridge.

If you are not royalty, He is not King.

A lot of people have it - that fantasy of being lord or lady of the manor, either in the present or at some time in history.

God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.

Technically, I'm a knight. My family goes back a thousand years in the Naples area. We're a titled, noble people.

Tony Hadley is a big Conservative. He is desperate to become a Lord. He's jealous of me.

A miracle no longer seems to me a manifestation of extraordinary power, but an extraordinary manifestation of ordinary power. God is always showing himself.

Sir Walter Elliot, of Kellynch-hall, in Somersetshire, was a man who, for his own amusement, never took up any book but the Barontage; there he found occupation for an idle hour, and consolation in a distressed one; . . .

The age of miracles has not past. The Miracle Worker is still ALIVE. His name is Jesus Christ!

Why should she give her bounty to the dead? What is divinity if it can come Only in silent shadows and in dreams?

Today nobility is gone: there is only a peerage.

Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky.

How long do you remember that it is the Lord who is making you work? But then, by repeatedly analysing like that, you will come to a state when the ego will vanish and in its place the Lord will come in. Then you will be able to say with justice "Thou, Lord, art guarding all my actions from within." But, my friend, if the ego occupies all the space within your heart, where forsooth will there be room enough for the Lord to come in? The Lord is verily absent!

God does not need our worship. We worship to enlarge our sense of holy, so that we can feel and know the presense of the Lord, who is with us always. He said, Love is what it amounts to, a loftier love, and pleasure in a loving presence.

They tell you that a tree is only a combination of chemical elements. I prefer to believe that God created it, and that it is inhabited by a nymph.

God showed me that He could and would replace everything that was missing in my life, but that nothing could replace Him in my life.

The noble lord is the Rupert of debate.

Through the grace of the Almighty Power, it is sure to manifest itself in time.

Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from the faith.

If you pray hard enough, water will run uphill. How hard? Why, hard enough to make water run uphill, of course!

Lord Salisbury constitutes himself the spokesman of a class, of the class to which he himself belongs, who'toil not neither do they spin'.

God comes to you disguised as your life.

Heaven walks among us ordinarily muffled in such triple or tenfold disguises that the wisest are deceived and no one suspects the days to be gods.

Whatever happens, the Lord is in it.