The Secret of Santa Vittoria (1969)

Renato Rascel: Babbaluche

Quotes 

• Padre Polenta : [Bombolini wants the priest to pray for the rain to stop while the villagers move the wine]  Nobody ever prays for sun, they only pray for rain.

  Babbaluche : In Noah's ark, people prayed for rain?

  Padre Polenta : That was before organized religion.

  Babbaluche : Sure, all they had was God, the poor bastards.

• Italo Bombolini : [after being told that his 16 year old daughter Angela was just caught in bed with Fabio]  Rosa, maybe it's love?

  Rosa Bombolini : She doesn't even know what love is - and she's making it right now!

  Italo Bombolini : I brought her to you. You were supposed to teach her!

  Babbaluche : [pointing to Rosa]  It's the mother's fault!

  Rosa Bombolini : I told you shut up! Listen, Mayor Bombolini, I demand that you put on your pants *immediately* and come down and kill him.

• Italo Bombolini : You know what Rosa said? She said that tomorrow, when the town is sobered up, they will want me to resign. That's what she said.

  Babbaluche : Rosa's a loud-mouthed bitch, no offense.

• Italo Bombolini : Shut up! We've had enough democracy for awhile. I am the mayor here. I am the voice of the people!

  Benedetti : What the hell do you know about the people?

  Italo Bombolini : I smell the people! And the people smell me.

  Babbaluche : At least, no one can argue about that.

• Babbaluche : If there are two people in the world you should never meet, its the German and your wife Rosa.

  Italo Bombolini : Babbaluche, do you think she'll make trouble?

  Babbaluche : With Rosa, that's trouble.

• Italo Bombolini : Hey, how do I look?

  Babbaluche : Like always. Like a clown.

• Rosa Bombolini : You stand there fast asleep and a man is seducing a virgin.

  Italo Bombolini : Where?

  Rosa Bombolini : Right under your nose.

  Italo Bombolini : At this time of night? Who is it?

  Rosa Bombolini : It's your young friend Fabio.

  Italo Bombolini : [laughs]  That young goat!

  Babbaluche : Good for him.

  Italo Bombolini : Who? Who is the lucky girl?

  Rosa Bombolini : The lucky girl, Mayor Stupid of the Stupid City of Saint Stupid is your daughter Angela.

  Italo Bombolini : Angela? My baby Angela?

• Fabio : He may look like a clown, but he acts like a real leader of men.

  Babbaluche : Inside, the best of the clown lives. And sooner or later the clown will come out; because, a clown is a clown and will always be a clown.

• Babbaluche : We have a gift. To the Captain - from the people of Santa Vittoria. Its not a great wine, but, it's not bad.

• Babbaluche : I've been an anarchist all my life; but, I've never been sure what it means - except that nothing means anything.

• Italo Bombolini : The trouble is, to all the important men in Santa Vittoria, I'm just a clown. A big, stupid clown. Don't deny it.

  Babbaluche : Who could deny it?

• Italo Bombolini : I will issue an official statement. Something simple and dignified: You can take this job and shove it up your ass.

  Babbaluche : That will be the finest moment in Italian history.