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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

Just give the Italians a chance for drama and they take it with both hands. — Ingrid Bergman

I was glad to see Italy win. All the guys on the team were Italians. — Tommy Lasorda

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

The hand gestures of Italians are not, apparently, as clear-cut as Goethe believed. De Jorio discovered that knowing the purpose of someone's mind — Ross King

I am certain that most Germans have instinctive liking for Italy, just as Italians admire Germans for their many qualities. — Mario Monti

In Paris, choosing a dress is a monumental decision. In Milan, it's a kick. — Chris Dee

Italians are great improvisers. If something unforeseen happens, they throw up their hands, and they adjust. — Max Von Sydow

The Italians were eating with forks when the French were still eating each other. — Mario Batali

Everything you need to know to enjoy your trip to Italy is in my Conversational Italian for Travelers books! — Kathryn Occhipinti

Some Italians are geniuses, but you have to find a balance. — Alain Prost

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

I come from a family of Catholic Italians, and that will always be in my blood. — Jenna Morasca

When an Italian marries a Greek, you get the union of two lots of people who believe themselves to be the creators of modern civilization — Joe Novella

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

The Italians have had 2,000 years to fix up the Forum and just look at the place! — P. J. O'Rourke

I have come not to make war on the Italians, but to aid the Italians against Rome. — Hannibal

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

there's nothing scarier than silent Italians; it's unnatural — Joe Novella

Abstract paintings must be as real as those created by the 16th century Italians. — Frank Stella

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

Thank God for the Italians, the most forgiving people of the world. And they sing so loud you can barely hear the music! — Jared Leto

Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one. — Pope John XXIII

Lemon trees, like Italians, seem to be happiest when they are touching one another — D.H. Lawrence

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

I repeat, whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all. — Victor Hugo

Italians are entirely without any commitment to order. They live their lives in a kind of pandemonium, which I find very attractive. — Bill Bryson

The English learned, in my view, how to use harmony much earlier than the French or the Italians, or the Germans. — Tod Machover

The Irish fought the Italians until they started marrying them. And then they both fought the Jews until they started marrying them. — Pete Hamill

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

I know Italians and I like them. A lot of my father's best friends were Italians. — Kirk Douglas

It is not impossible to rule Italians, but it would be useless. — Benito Mussolini

I love places that have an incredible history. I love the Italian way of life. I love the food. I love the people. I love the attitudes of Italians. — Elton John

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

When the Italians play the Germans it'll be fascinating. Mightn't be very good football but it'll be great psychology. — Eamon

The Italians live well. They have problems, like all countries, but they are well-dressed, the women are pretty. — Francois Pinault

I am disgusted by the anti-Semitism of many Italians, of many Europeans. — Oriana Fallaci

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

Undoubtedly Italians use hand gestures and body language more creatively and prolifically than other European cultures. — Ross King

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

Scusi mia bella*, but it runs in the blood of all Italians to be skillful lovers. So you have to get used to this. — Olga Goa

Italians make you laugh and break your heart. — Chloe Thurlow

Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land. — E. M. Forster

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

In the last 20, 22 years I have sung here very often and I have always felt the affection and warmth of the Italians, and I feel very close to you. — Jose Carreras

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

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

My goodness carina mia, you are so thin. You do not eat enough. Mangia, mangia, mangia! [Alicia's Italian mother's view of her daughter.] — Celia Conrad

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

Italians have a little joke, that the world is so hard a man must have two fathers to look after him, and that's why they have godfathers. — Mario Puzo

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

President Clinton bankrupted Chrysler so that Italians could buy it to ship jobs overseas to China. — Joe Biden