Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa, The Leopard Quotes

If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.

Como siempre, la consideración de su muerte lo serenaba tanto como lo turbaba la muerte de los demás. Tal vez porque, a fin de cuentas, su muerte era el final del mundo.

They are coming to teach us good manners!" I replied in English. "But they won't succeed, because we are gods.

A man of forty-five can consider himself still young till the moment comes when he realises that he has children old enough to fall in love.