La grande bellezza – Movie Quotes

I was looking for the great beauty, but... I didn't find it. <...> This is how it always ends. With death. But first there was life. Hidden beneath the blah, blah, blah. It is all settled beneath the chitter chatter and the noise. Silence and sentiment. Emotion and fear. The haggard, inconstant flashes of beauty. And then the wretched squalor and miserable humanity. All buried under the cover of the embarrassment of being in the world.

You can't excel over others for more than a week, you're immediately brought back to mediocrity.

— Don't take these writers so seriously!
— Who should I take seriously then?
— Nothing, apart from the menu, of course.

— The trains at our parties are the best ones in Rome!
— You think so?
— I do. They're the best because they go nowhere.