Italy Quotes
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Italy Quotes & Sayings
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Like so many ancient cities, Perugia has long outgrown her early walls, and much of the new town is remorselessly ugly.
— Francis Russell
Living in another culture, not just visiting it, has reshaped our view of the world.
— Nancy Petralia
You know that ISIS wants to go in and take over the Vatican? You have heard that. You know, that's a dream of theirs, to go into Italy.
— Donald Trump
The increased presence of Muslims in Italy and in Europe is directly proportional to our loss of freedom.
— Oriana Fallaci
Like many Eastern European gangsters, he had been an official in the state security apparatus until the Communist regime collapsed.
— Massimo Carlotto
We don't sell a car, we sell a dream. We are Italy's national team. There are many great soccer teams in our country, but there is only one Ferrari.
— Luca Cordero Di Montezemolo
My family is a Jewish Iranian family, but I was born in Turkey and raised in Italy. So it's a very mixed background.
— Nouriel Roubini
In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you.
— Dario Argento
...if you can't find any grappa, half a cup of cough medicine should achieve similar results." [Audrey's advice]
— Tom Gleisner
Everything is global now. It's not London, it's not Spain, it's not Italy - everything is everywhere. So you have to be everywhere, I guess.
— Manolo Blahnik
The islands of Italy combine all the elements - fire, water, earth, and air - and that is irresistible.
— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
The sun woke Tino early this beautiful morning in his small Italian village.
— Tonya Russo Hamilton
The years pass so quickly now that I can't keep my mental image of myself up to date. [Mature Dotsy deals with her age]
— Maria Hudgins
I finally had a honeymoon with my husband in Italy.
— Cate Blanchett
We've grown accustomed to living smaller and more simply.
— Nancy Petralia
No one could have told: all that was known was, that when he returned from Italy he was a priest.
— Victor Hugo
In Italy, the Milanese are well organized but follow bourgeois taste. They adhere to certain codes of elegance, but not to individualism.
— Christian Lacroix
People who go to Italy to look at ruins won't have to go as far as Naples and Pompeii in the future.
— William Manchester
Buffalo Soldiers in Italy: Black Americans in World War II
— Charles M. Blow
It is fate that I am here,' George persisted, 'but you can call it Italy if it makes you less unhappy.
— E. M. Forster
Do you remember Italy?
— E. M. Forster
But we did the Pink Panther not in Hollywood, in Italy.
— Claudia Cardinale
Then the pernicious charm of Italy worked on her, and, instead of acquiring information, she began to be happy.
— E. M. Forster
Were the Inhabitants of Italy charming as their Country, all other Regions would be depopulated I think.
— Bill Vaughan
When I think of Italy now, I think of accessories, possessions, bad TV, fake boobs, BMWs.
— Valeria Golino
Like Venice, Italy, this is a place of fleeting beauty. The knowledge that we won't be here long gives everyone an intense appetite for living.
— Andrei Codrescu
2-0 is a cricket score in Italy
— Alan Parry
...she felt safe with Nicolo, and feared nothing.
— Mirella Sichirollo Patzer
A wise walker will set out early, keeping an open mind on how far to travel, allowing each day's adventure to evolve.
— John Litwinovich
Carlina with her cat-like eyes who didn't fit into any category he knew. (Commissario Garini's difficulty with his prime suspect.)
— Beate Boeker
Bologna is the best city in Italy for food and has the least number of tourists. With its medieval beauty, it has it all.
— Mario Batali
David Moyes, in Italy, would have been sacked three times now.
— Gianluca Vialli
You may have the universe if I may have Italy
— Giuseppe Verdi
Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.
— Bertrand Russell
Carlina felt as if sudden sunshine had filled the kitchen ... [Carlina's reaction to Stefano Garini]
— Beate Boeker
It's easy to understand why the most beautiful poems about England in the spring were written by poets living in Italy at the time.
— Philip Dunne
From outside Italy, dial your international access code, Italy's country code (39) then the number (including the '0').
— Cristian Bonetto
In Italy, age is an asset.
— Isa Miranda
The reason I emphasize that is because that is exactly what happened when Mussolini was put in by the king of Italy,
— Guido Calabresi
If you want to catch a glimpse of Italy as it has been lived for centuries, rather than simply something that looks good on postcards, come to Genoa.
— Nicholas Walton
I am glad I will be leaving Italy. It costs too much to lover her.[The emigrant's lament]
— Maria Martin
Italy was about churches, Greece it's ruins; but Israel was about surviving and about feeling glad.
— Martha Gellhorn
The more I see of Italy and her treasures, the more I see paganism in Christianity ...
— Henrietta Szold
We at Ferrari are a small, dynamic company, and we show what Italy can do.
— Luca Cordero Di Montezemolo
She'd fallen for him. How stupid. Secretary falls in love with her boss. What a tepid thing to do.
— Beate Boeker
Extraordinary scenes there at the end. I think some of the crowd chanting 'Italy! Italy!' were actually Irish.
— Tom McGurk
The traveling heart went free / With endless streams; that strife was stopped; / And down a thousand vales I dropped, / I flowed to Italy.
— Alice Meynell
When life gives you twists and turns, Chique Yourself Up in Italy!
— Barbara Conelli
She shook her head, then started fanning herself with her wallet. "Only in Italy.
— Jenna Evans Welch
Even gelato, which used to be divine all over Italy, is not dependably good anymore.
— Frances Mayes
The historian in me love to uncover things, and the mother in me hates to be lied to...[Why Dotsy investigates murder]
— Maria Hudgins
No part of Italian society should see itself as exempt from the effort to save Italy from collapse.
— Giorgio Napolitano
We trifle with France and labour with Germany, we sentimentalize over Italy and ecstacise over Spain- but England we love.
— Frances Hodgson Burnett
To this day the Arab influence is evident in southern Italy, northern Africa and, above all, in Spain.
— Carroll Quigley
He knows his olive trees better than he knows his children.
— Rebecca Helm-Ropelato
Why don't you write my family in Italy," she said, "This must be a right empty house without the touch of a woman.
— C.B. Overdorf
Wasting time is something that people do or feel all over the world, not just in Italy.
— Paolo Sorrentino
The name of Italy has magic in its very syllables.
— Mary Shelley
Holding onto failed dreams only makes you bitter.
— Joseph C. Sciarillo
Italy and France could lop off their excessive wealth through a one-time tax on private wealth.
— Edmund Phelps
He was a throwback to a lady's old romantic notion of how a man should act. [Giovanni Tempesta]
— Vincent B. "Chip" LoCoco
The Italians were getting so accustomed to tragedies and disasters that their appetite for sensation was becoming jaded.
— Timothy Holme
hailing from Sorrento, Italy, via Brooklyn via Ellis Island.
— Bruce Springsteen
My parents immigrated from Italy and spent 40 days and 40 stinking nights on a boat so we didn't have to eat things like gizzards.
— Nadia Giosia
The Communists at that moment were very strong in Italy, and the Italian Communist Party was the biggest Communist Party outside the Soviet Union.
— Giovanni Agnelli
...loafing in the easy chair of one's body.
— Umberto Bartolomeo
As for international understanding, I feel that macaroni has done more for our appreciation of Italy than Mussolini.
— Lin Yutang
Venice, it's temples and palaces did seem like fabrics of enchantment piled to heaven.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
In Italy there's perhaps a little less space than in Spain, but there's certainly as much sunshine.
— Carlo Rubbia
You are what you read.
— Nancy Petralia
I'm very pro-American - my entire family escaped poverty in Italy because they rightly believed in the American dream.
— Camille Paglia
In Italy, you sometimes get the impression they'd be happier to lose the Ppe than lose their right to drive like maniacs.
— Jeremy Clarkson
Any time a famous rich kid screws up, people want to know about it. Makes them feel good.
— Peter Leonard
I have a very big family, and that is my number one thing, and we go away for a month to see my cousins in Italy every year, but I need to work.
— Richard Rogers
Italy was the only place I'd visited where people described kitchen implements as having souls of their own.
— Jen Lin-Liu
He wondered what you had to do to lose your driver's license in Italy.
— Robert Hellenga
That's it?" Nico demanded. "Hecate sent us halfway across Italy so you could tell us to eat barley?
— Rick Riordan
Reading about other people's delightful lives, however, only brought an unwelcome comparison.
— Judith Works
Julie went to her hotel room window to check that the Campo, the central square of Siena, Italy, was still out there.
— Candida Martinelli
The Vatican is a dagger in the heart of Italy.
— Thomas Paine
Italy's siren call lures us more and more.
— Frances Mayes
Paoletta turned to him with a dark face.You'd better watch out, Chase. He's passed over to the evil side. — Stefania Mattana
I think I went to Italy initially for the art, architecture, food and history, but I stayed there because of the people in Cortona.
— Frances Mayes
