europe

Italy is cultivated right up to the mountain tops.

- Guicciardini

Who do I call if I want to call Europe?

- Henry Kissinger

The Frenchman is the ideal soldier, not only can he fight, he can tell you about it.

- Heywood Broun

With time, England will be only London.

- King James 1st

I have been crushed under a sense of the mere magnitude of London - its inconceivable immensity - in such a way as to paralyze my mind for any appreciation of details.

- Henry James

Amsterdam is the inventory of the possible.

- Descartes

History clearly shows that the salt of the earth is gradually shifting eastwards. In the 18th century France was the salt of the earth, in the 19th Germany. Now it is Russia.

- Grigori Sokolnikov

Russians possess the genius of all the peoples and also have our own; thus we can understand you and you cannot understand us.

- Dostoevsky

There are two parties in Russia. One party in office and one in prison.

- Nikolai Bukharin