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

  Sophia Loren

  Wine, Pasta, Size

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

  Peter Ustinov

  Travel, Wine, Hell

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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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• 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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• Some princes, so as to hold securely the state, have disarmed their subjects, others have kept their subject towns distracted by factions...Our forefathers, and those who were reckoned wise, were accustomed to say that it was necessary to hold Pistoia [an Italian city] by factions and Pisa by fortress, and with this idea they fostered quarrels in some of their tributary towns so as to keep possession of them the more easily.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Wise, Cities, Ideas

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• I don't know how things stand in the thinking of the Italian parliament. The Pope doesn't get mixed up in Italian politics.

  Pope Francis

  Thinking, Pope, Parliament

  In-flight interview from Mexico to Rome, www.catholicnewsagency.com. February 18, 2016.

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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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• A fool and his money are soon invited everywhere.

  Warren Buffett

  Money, Taxes Funny, Fool

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• A fool and his money are soon partying.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Money, Party

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• My parents, the effect that [Frank Sinatra] had on the Italian community, in terms of all our friends at the house were multicultural. We weren't just Italians. My dad's close friend was a black gentleman - this was back in the early 50s when Tony Bennett was reprimanded for having lunch, when he was in the military, with a black man.

  Robert Davi

  Dad, Military, Men

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• But pizza was originally Italian, although, Italian pizza doesn't taste much like this because this pizza is fortified with sodium. Which is a mineral...or a vitamin. All I know is that it's good for you.

  John Green

  Real, Sodium, Taste

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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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• "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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• I'm half-Italian and my name is Portuguese. Michael Young is half-Mexican. There are players from the United States that have heritage elsewhere and it's a great thing to have a world cup to celebrate the whole world. It shows the world that baseball is important and how great the game is.

  Mark Teixeira

  Baseball, Player, Games

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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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• An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Get Well Soon, Health, Apples

  James C. Humes, Benjamin Franklin (1995). “The wit and wisdom of Benjamin Franklin: a treasury of more than 900 quotations and anecdotes”, Harpercollins

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• Help yourself and God will help you

  Joan of Arc

  Helping, Help Yourself, Gods Will

  Saint Joan (of Arc) (1968). “The Trial of Joan of Arc: Being the Verbatim Report of the Proceedings from the Orleans Manuscript”

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