Italian Quotes

• Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Beautiful, Two, Identity

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2363, Delphi Classics

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  The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Funny, Cute, Movie

  1954 In the Journal American, 22 Feb.

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• When an Italian tells me it's pasta on the plate, I check under the sauce to make sure.

  Alex Ferguson

  Funny, Football, Alex

  Sir Alex Ferguson's 25 years at Manchester United - in quotes" by Benji Inwood, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2011.

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• Italian women are some of the most beautiful in the world. This is why the Vatican is in Italy. If a man can walk across Italy and retain his celibacy, he's got what it takes to be a priest - or an interior decorator.

  Craig Ferguson

  Beautiful, Men, World

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  I'd much rather eat pasta and drink wine than be a size 0.

  Sophia Loren

  Wine, Pasta, Size

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• I've got a friend who is half-Jewish and half-Italian. If he can't buy it wholesale, he steals it!

  Jackie Mason

  Half, Stealing, Wholesale

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• I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine.

  Peter Ustinov

  Travel, Wine, Hell

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• This nation is so friendly that the leading cause of injury is getting passionately embraced by strangers.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humorous, Friendly

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need”, p.141, Ballantine Books

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• Italy has changed. But Rome is Rome.

  Robert De Niro

  Rome, Changed

  "Robert De Niro: What I've Learned". Interview with Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 14, 2010.

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• In spite of a heavy disguise, a few days' growth on my face, dark glasses, a beret and one of William's jackets that fitted me not at all, as I emerged from a hotel in Lecce, a young fisherman pointed me out to his friends and said "Lavrenche Olivaire." It was not all that amazing; if you're not known in Italy, you're not known anywhere.

  Laurence Olivier

  Funny, Humor, Dark

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• Women react differently: a French woman who sees herself betrayed by her husband will kill his mistress; an Italian will kill her husband; a Spaniard will kill both; and a German will kill herself.

  Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

  Husband, Mistress, French Woman

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• If I had been an Italian I am sure that I should have been whole-heartedly with you from the start to finish in your triumphant struggle against the bestial appetites and passions of Leninism.

  Winston Churchill

  Struggle, Passion, Rome

  Speech in Rome, www.realclearpolitics.com. January 20, 1927.

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• 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

  World, Problem, Enough

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• Jesus was a poor, black man who lived in a country and who lived in a culture that was controlled by rich white people. The Romans were Italian - which means they were Europeans, which means they were white - and the Romans ran everything in Jesus' country.

  Jeremiah Wright

  Country, Jesus, Mean

  "Cain: Rev. Jeremiah Wright-Obama connection still 'fair game' in presidential campaign, not racist". "On the Record" with Greta Van Susteren, www.foxnews.com. May 17, 2012.

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• I feel like all the American artists are aesthetically not very interesting and mired in a complaining relationship to its own culture, whereas the Italian work, from a different era, is so comfortable with its relationship to nature and to culture.

  David Salle

  Artist, Interesting, Different

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm a big pasta fan. I'm a big Italian food fan. Anything Italian - I love cheese, mozzarella. Mozzarella is my favorite, so I have to say anything Italian, I'll take it.

  Malin Akerman

  Say Anything, Fans, Mozzarella

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Everything in Italian sounds like 'Give me your money or I'm going to beat your @$$'.

  Jon Stewart

  Giving, Sound, Beats

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• "Picasso" is of Italian origin, as you know. And the name a person bears or adopts has its importance.

  Pablo Picasso

  Names, Bears, Importance

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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• Neither Italian fascism nor German national "socialism" have anything in common with such a [Soviet socialistic] society, primarily because private ownership of factories, plants, lands, banks, means of transportation, etc., remain untouched there, and, therefore, capitalism in Germany and Italy remains in full force.

  Joseph Stalin

  Mean, Land, Etc

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• I hate the opera. I think I must have a tin ear. No matter how hard I concentrate it still sounds like a bunch of Italian chefs screaming risotto recipes at each other.

  Aristotle Onassis

  Hate, Thinking, Opera

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• If you haven't cried, your eyes can't be beautiful.

  Sophia Loren

  Beautiful, Eye, Tears

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• Where there is life, there is hope.

  Alyson Noel

  Motivational, Hope, Life Lesson

  Alyson Noel (2010). “Dark Flame”, p.191, Pan Macmillan

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• A fool and his money are soon partying.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Money, Party

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• A fool and his money are soon invited everywhere.

  Warren Buffett

  Money, Taxes Funny, Fool

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• Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.

  Truman Capote

  Travel, Food, Venice

  In Observer 26 Nov. 1961

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