Italians Quotes
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Italians Quotes & Sayings
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The Italians say that a beautiful woman by her smiles draws tears from our purse.
— Nathaniel Parker Willis
I love Italy. For hundreds of years, if not centuries, the people of italy (Italians) have been living here." [Audrey's insight]
— Tom Gleisner
Italians and Greeks have uncles, aunts, cousins and grandparents as far as the eye can see.
— Joe Novella
Italians know that what matters is style, not fashion. Italian style does not have social or age boundaries.
— Stefano Gabbana
Italians love emotional people. If you're reserved you either have something to hide or you're just plain stupid.
— Joe Novella
Berlusconi's advice to Italians trying to escape poverty: "Do it my way and earn more money".
— Silvio Berlusconi
The Italians are very strong defensively. They showed in Euro 2000 how good defensively they are.
— Alan Hansen
I am certain that most Germans have instinctive liking for Italy, just as Italians admire Germans for their many qualities.
— Mario Monti
Italians are great improvisers. If something unforeseen happens, they throw up their hands, and they adjust.
— Max Von Sydow
Everything you need to know to enjoy your trip to Italy is in my Conversational Italian for Travelers books!
— Kathryn Occhipinti
Italians stay so true to their classic silhouettes and the things that they've always done.
— Candice Huffine
We must give Italians a sense of race.
— Benito Mussolini
The Italians say it is not necessary to be a stag; but we ought not to be a tortoise.
— Benjamin Disraeli
The Italians ... you can't find one who is honest.
— Richard M. Nixon
Anne Shirley, how often have I told you never to let one of those Italians in the house! I don't believe in encouraging them to come around at all.
— L.M. Montgomery
Pertini has interpreted as their best the worst about Italians.
— Indro Montanelli
The Italians have long known what makes a livable town or city.
— Norman Foster
Italian men are beautiful in the same way as French women, which is to say - no detail spared in the quest for perfection.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
When I am walking in Central Park, I recognize the Italians. Because an Italian, even when he jogs, he's dressed perfect.
— Diego Della Valle
It's not just we Italians who are caught up in the difficulty.
— Giorgio Napolitano
Italy is not technically part of the Third World, but no one has told the Italians.
— P. J. O'Rourke
If you score against the Italians you deserve a goal.
— Ron Atkinson
And I said to myself, here's the problem with the world: The Italians are too Italian, and nobody else is Italian enough.
— Mary Jo Salter
When in Italy, you should meet Italians.
— Isa Miranda
Many immigrant groups have faced hostility. The Irish did in their time. Jews did. Italians did - and now, Muslim immigrants.
— Tom Gjelten
As we Italians say, the husband is like the government at Rome, all pomp; the wife is like the mafia, all power.
— Michael Schmicker
Italians do not regard food as merely fuel. They regard it as medicine for the soul, one of life's abiding pleasures.
— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one.
— Pope John XXIII
The taste of music with the inhabitants of Venus and Jupiter is at a high level, similar to that of Frenchmen or Italians.
— Christian Huygens
The English learned, in my view, how to use harmony much earlier than the French or the Italians, or the Germans.
— Tod Machover
Italians are just as good as Jews when it comes to guilt.
— Anita Diamant
I just heard some guy say Argentines are a bunch of Italians who speak Spanish but think they're British living in France.
— Marc Cameron
Lines were a new experience for the Italians, but they caught on quickly to this American phenomenon.
— Laurie Fabiano
The Italians are the most civilized people. And they're very warm. Basically, they're Jews with great architecture.
— Fran Lebowitz
It is not impossible to rule Italians, but it would be useless.
— Benito Mussolini
Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals
— Abraham Verghese
The English say, Yours Truly, and mean it. The Italians say, I kiss your feet, and mean, I kick your head.
— Wilfred Owen
I love Italian fashion - the sense of style that Italians have as part of their DNA. Nobody is like them.
— Sonam Kapoor
The Italians live well. They have problems, like all countries, but they are well-dressed, the women are pretty.
— Francois Pinault
That's what I admire about youngish Italians, the slow dimunition of ambition, the recognition that the best is far behind them.
— Gary Shteyngart
Italians have a very closed life. Football is all their life is.
— Gianfranco Zola
I can design a collection in a day and I always do, cause I've always got a load of Italians on my back, moaning that it's late.
— Alexander McQueen
We are all God's people. We are prejudiced and we separate into Jews, Mexicans, Italians, but God doesn't see colors.
— Muhammad Ali
Italians have no sense of the dramatic.
— Jose Carreras
Italians are genetically incapable of standing in an orderly line, so much so that the movie theater seems more crowded than it actually is.
— Petra F. Bagnardi
The Italians are hoping for an Italian victory.
— David Coleman
Everybody says it: black, white; everybody calls me a legend. Italians, Jews. Everybody.
— Roberto Duran
Rule No. 41. Eat more like the French. Or the Japanese. Or the Italians. Or the Greeks.
— Michael Pollan
Forgotten Front." Much of the amnesia was caused by Italians who'd
— Mark T. Sullivan
country of ours consists of pioneers, after all, these new Poles and Italians and Jews as well as the
— Anonymous
The cucina casalinga and cucina povera are the new haute cuisines.
— Loretta Gatto-White
Italians make you laugh and break your heart.
— Chloe Thurlow
Eating local is a relatively new concept in American dining; for the Italians, it's a way of life.
— Hanya Yanagihara
I'm secretly a clown, or maybe it's not much of a secret! I'm a little putzo, as the Italians say - a little bit loopy.
— Matthew Settle
All Italians speak Spanish without studying.
— Sirio Maccioni
The Italians were getting so accustomed to tragedies and disasters that their appetite for sensation was becoming jaded.
— Timothy Holme
The Italians are called "Children of the Sun". They might better be called "Children of the Shadow". Their souls are dark and nocturnal.
— D.H. Lawrence
The lucky thing was that I was Italian; when the other Italians saw me fight back, they came to my defence.
— Gregory Corso
I grew up in a neighborhood with blacks and Puerto Ricans and Italians, the whole gamut, so conveying unity has always meant a lot to me.
— Carmine Giovinazzo
Italians can never win from you, but you can lose to them.
(when asked about Ajax's chances in the 1995 Champs League final against AC Milan) — Johan Cruijff
(when asked about Ajax's chances in the 1995 Champs League final against AC Milan) — Johan Cruijff
Italians can drink hot chocolate and eat ices almost at the same time, without dying!
— Aimee Dostoyevsky
Italians who speak Italian should be illegal, or at least come with warning labels - may make your panties explode.
— Penny Reid
I never went to a psychologist or psychiatrist in my life. Never. You know, Italians are a little prejudiced against that kind of thing.
— Francis Ford Coppola
The Italians have voices like peacocks - German gives me a cold in the head - and Russian is nothing but sneezing
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
You can tell when Iraqis are getting upset because, like Italians we start talking with our hands.
— Wafaa Bilal
The Italians are said to be noisy and to gesticulate, but that is a libel dreamed up by the English.
— Jean Giono
Italians are fantastic people, really. They can work you over in an alley while singing an opera.
— Don Rickles
Italians' relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay ...
— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
We shall have to develop a hand signal for "Back off, our prince is fucking this man's daughter." He is surprised the Italians have not done it.
— Hilary Mantel
I was so happy when I went to Rome and I saw that the Romans eat them too, the squash blossoms. No wonder I like the Italians!
— Sandra Cisneros
The Italians always know that I'm not Italian.
— Jhumpa Lahiri
Italians allow anything in their cooking.
— Jose Andres