Luigi Barzini Quotes

Italy, Journalist
December 21, 1908 – March, 30, 1984.

Luigi Barzini Jr. (Milan, 21 December 1908 – Rome, 30 March 1984) was an Italian journalist, writer and politician most famous for his 1964 book The Italians, delving deeply into the Italian national character and introducing many Anglo-Saxon readers to Italian life and culture.

Also known as Writer, Politician

To put up a show is to face life's injustices with one of the few weapons available to a desperate and brave people, their imagination.

Luigi Barzini
- People
- Life
- Up
Public and private food in America has become eatable, here and there extremely good. Only the fried potatoes go unchanged, as deadly as before.

Luigi Barzini
- Good
- America
- Food

They eat the dainty food of famous chefs with the same pleasure with which they devour gross peasant dishes, mostly composed of garlic and tomatoes, or fisherman's octopus and shrimps, fried in heavily scented olive oil on a little deserted beach.

Luigi Barzini
- Food
- Famous
- Beach