Florence Quotations

Although I studied Dante's Inferno as a student, it wasn't until recently, while researching in Florence, that I came to appreciate the enduring influence of Dante's work on the modern world,

I often compare Margaret Thatcher with Florence Nightingale. She stalks through the wards of our hospitals as a lady with a lamp. Unfortunately, it's a blowlamp.

Paul Newman's half Jewishand Florence Henderson's half, tooPut them together,What a fine looking Jew!

As her time in Florence drew to a close she was only at ease amongst those to whom she felt indifferent.

To her [Florence Nightingale] chiefly I owed the awakening to the fact that sanitation is the supreme goal of medicine its foundation and its crown.

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.

Florence and art is something that is part of my life and is part of myself.

Bismarck was a large persian cat owned by Florence Nightingale.

Everything about Florence seems to be colored with a mild violet, like diluted wine.