The great Beauty

"Write about how she has sex with her fiance eleven times a day, he's a talented conceptual artist, he covers basketballs with confetti! He's sensational!"

"I spent all my summers making plans for September. Not any longer. Now I spend the summer remembering the good intentions which vanished. In part because of laziness, in part because of carelessness. What's wrong with feeling nostalgic? It's the only distraction for those who've no faith in the future. Without rain August is coming to an end, and September isn't arriving. And I'm so ordinary. But there's no need to worry. It's alright, it's okay."

Jep: "What'll you do now?"
Alfredo: "What I've always done. I'll live in adoration of her."

"I'm not a misogynist, I'm a misanthrope."

"When I came to Rome at the age of 26, I fell pretty swiftly into what might be defined as the whirl of the high life, but I didn't just want to live the high life, I wanted to be the king of the high life. I didn't just want to attend parties, I wanted the power to make them fail."

Santa: "Do you know why I only eat roots?"
Jep: "No, why?"
Santa: "Because roots are important."

"The trains at our parties are the best in Rome. They're the best cause they go nowhere."

"We're all on the brink of despair, all we can do is look each other in the face, keep each other company, joke a little... don't you agree?"