Italian Quotes
Italian Quote of the day
The German soldier has impressed the world, however the Italian Bersagliere soldier has impressed the German soldier.
On the field I defend our colours, love our flag and sing our anthem. I could not be more Italian than I am now.
Dante can be understood only within the context of Italian thought, and Faust would be unthinkable if divorced from its German background; but both are part of our common cultural heritage.
We thought the church had withdrawn from interfering in Italian politics... but instead there is a terrible resurgence. These are ugly signs for freedom of expression.
BUT, in terms of attractiveness, speaking in terms of physical aspects only I think that Argentinean, Italian, Mexican, and Spanish men are among the most attractive men.
Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.
I come from an Italian family. One of the greatest and most profound expressions we would ever use in conversations or arguments was a slamming door. The slamming door was our punctuation mark.
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.
The passion of the Italian or the Italian-American population is endless for food and lore and everything about it.
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.
Streets crowded with people strolling, or sitting at outdoor cafes. And always, talking, gesturing, singing, laughing. I liked Rome immediately.Everybody was a performer.
The Italian prose tale had begun to exercise that influence as early as Chaucer's time: but circumstances and atmosphere were as yet unfavourable for its growth.
For me to make lasagna would be a desecration of a great Italian dish. . . . I don't mess with sacred things.
There is an Italian proverb which saith, From my enemy let me defend myself; but from a pretensed friend Lord deliver me
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.
I was born and raised a guido. It's just a lifestyle, it's being Italian, it's representing, family, friends, tanning, gel, everything.
When an Italian tells me it's pasta on the plate, I check under the sauce to make sure.
I have won on Honda and Yamaha so maybe it is interesting to win with a third team, Ducati, who are Italian.
Rocky is a poor Italian boy from a poor Italian family, and he appreciates the buck more than almost anybody. He's only got two halfway decent purses so far, and it was like a tiger tasting blood
When I wasn't famous, I had a lot of friends, almost all of them Italian. The racism only started when I started to play football.
The lucky thing was that I was Italian; when the other Italians saw me fight back, they came to my defence.
I wanted to be a skinny little ballerina but I was a voluptuous little Italian girl whose dad had meatballs on the table every night.
In Italy, I had an Afro, and a lot of the kids came up and felt my hair. It really was funny. I wish I had understood Italian.
If you don't drink coffee, I am suspicious of your character and will not invite you to my Italian lake home.
In America most everybody who's Italian is half Italian. Except me. I'm all Italian. I'm mostly Sicilian, and I have a little bit of Neapolitan in me. You get your full dose with me.
I mean, people don't know what race I am. They never know if I'm Hawaiian or Italian or Mexican or Spanish or white. I could play Jewish, I could play anything.
When I make an American movie it's going to come out all over the world-it doesn't happen the same way for an Italian film or a French film.
I took a straight picture that made me look like a thirty-year-old Italian who'd kill anybody who said something against his mother.
Oh sure, its fine when a monkey does it. But when I throw barrels at an Italian plumber, they call it a hate crime!
I am not one to turn down macaroni and cheese, even late at night. I love Italian food. I love pasta... A refrigerator full of water and Gatorade? Honey, that's just not gonna happen.
Hitler decided that Mussolini must be freed from the Italian Partisans because Benito was his friend and had acted in good faith.
Not everyone in Italy may know how to cook, but nearly everyone knows how to eat. Eating in Italy is one more manifestation of the Italian's age-old gift of making art out of life.
What this White House really needs is a chief of staff who can read Machiavelli in the original Italian.
