Italian Quotes · Page 18

A comedy that is ironic, sometimes bitter, in some cases even dramatic, tragic: This is what Italian comedy is.

— Mario Monicelli

I am a typical Italian; I love the clan. But I don't think about getting married.

— Gianni Versace

What's the meaning of "giornalista professionista"? I have always thought a professional to be a good prostitute!

— William C. Brown

I was born in Japan, so for me, Uniqlo is a family brand. My granny used to wear Uniqlo. And my Italian…

— Nicola Formichetti

“How do you say, 'Bring me steak and eggs or I'll slit your throat' in Italian?”

— Regina Doman

Italian politicians are stupid and expensive, that's why they should be fired, abolished, or better eliminated.

— William C. Brown

Italians know that what matters is style, not fashion. Italian style does not have social or age boundaries.

— Stefano Gabbana

My mother's side is Italian; my father's side is Jewish. We're the kind of family where every Sunday night we have dinner…

— Lea Michele

My wife spoke perfect Italian and she was very beautiful and very suave Italian men were crowding around her, talking all the…

— Clive James

A Frenchwoman, when double-crossed, will kill her rival; the Italian woman would rather kill her deceitful lover; the Englishwoman simply breaks off…

— Charles Boyer

My father was an American who could cuss in Italian and make an aria out of it. It was wonderful to watch.…

— Dominic Chianese

The Cinquecento was an engine of motivation at Fiat. It refurbished the image of the entire company. It's a symbol for the…

— Lapo Elkann

I have a lot of nice Italian winter clothes that make me look like a sophisticated Lebanese professor, so my friend Robert…

— Alexei Sayle

But pizza was originally Italian, although, Italian pizza doesn't taste much like this because this pizza is fortified with sodium. Which is…

— John Green

I don't like being called 'macho.' Macho basically means stupid and a real Italian man is not macho, he's smart. That's smart…

— Andrea Bocelli

Inside me I'm Ghanaian, and I'm proud to be African. But of course I'm Italian. I was born in Italy. I've never…

— Mario Balotelli

[Rhyme is] but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meter; ... Not without cause therefore…

— John Milton

I lived right on the borderline of a black neighborhood. So I could go into the black area and then there'd be…

— Quentin Tarantino

To evoke the classic period of Italian cinema in a little film seemed like a great, fun thing to do. I had…

— Wim Wenders

There's this one photograph of guy I know named Simon. The way he's standing, the background, the way his tie's flipping in…

— Scott Schuman

I always say to young people, "Get the hell out of the United States." Especially if you're young, like if you're 21…

— David Sedaris

I've been able to dine with presidents, with leaders of corporations, traveled for 14 years with (financier and philanthropist) Michael Milken, who…

— Tommy Lasorda

Amor, ch'al cor gentile ratto s'apprende prese costui de la bella persona che mi fu tolta; e 'l modo ancor m'offende. Amor,…

— Dante Alighieri

When I first discovered in the early 1980s the Italian espresso bars in my trip to Italy, the vision was to re-create…

— Howard Schultz

I'm an avid cook. Brazilian, some Italian, a little French. And I often throw dinner parties.

— Morena Baccarin

My mother was French Protestant, and my father was Italian Catholic, and their union was an excess of God, guilt and sauce.

— Mitch Albom

Sonnets are guys writing in English, imitating an Italian song form. It was a form definitely sung as often as it was…

— Steve Earle

The same word passed through three minds, simultaneously, philosophical, fatalistic, the eternal refuge of the Italian: Pazienza…

— Violet Trefusis

I am not 100% English, I am actually part Italian and even part Hungarian. Therefore I feel very much part of Europe…

— Bruce Bennett

Italian football remains a very successful product, which has inspired people all over the world.

— Thiago Silva

The unlikely combination of potatoes and pasta does appear in some Italian recipes.

— Yotam Ottolenghi

I have won on Honda and Yamaha so maybe it is interesting to win with a third team, Ducati, who are Italian.

— Valentino Rossi

Instead of Otello being an Italian opera written in the style of Shakespeare, Othello is a play written by Shakespeare in the…

— George Bernard Shaw

Say German cars are sort of very built and efficient. Italian cars are a bit flamboyant and quick. Mexican cars just going…

— Richard Hammond

"Cardinal Baggia," the killer hissed. "Have you prayed yet?" The Italian's eyes were fearless. "Only for your soul.

— Dan Brown

I have family in Italy that my mother keeps in contact with, but I don't because I don't speak Italian.

— Pauly D

Political parties in Italy are so stupid and expensive that they deserve to be abolished.

— William C. Brown

Just because we are not Italian, does not mean we cannot appreciate Michelangelo, it is the same with cuisine.

— Anthony Bourdain

No part of Italian society should see itself as exempt from the effort to save Italy from collapse.

— Giorgio Napolitano

I studied literature and Italian at Yale. I wrote my thesis about Italo Svevo, one of my heroes.

— Nathaniel Rich