Famous Quotes by Orson Welles, The Third Man, 1949

Below are famous quotes by Orson Welles, The Third Man, 1949 - US actor & director (1915 - 1985).

In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.

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