Italian Quotes · Page 21

... there is much truth in the Italian saying, 'Make yourselves sheep, and the wolves will eat you.'

— Benjamin Franklin

Italian is the language of song. German is good for philosophy and English for poetry. French is best at precision; it has…

— Maurice Druon

Italian food really reflects the people. It reflects like a prism that fragments into regions.

— Lidia Bastianich

One thing they don't have out here in California is Rita's Italian Ices. We used to have one right next to our…

— Joe Jonas

I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.

— Anonymous

Elsewhere in Italy is the lovely city of Venice, which each year attracts millions of visitors despite the fact that it is…

— Dave Barry

I like to cook Puerto Rican food. That's what I grew up on: rice, beans, meat, some Italian-American food. I know my…

— Jennifer Lopez

I have my mother who is an Irish-Italian, and my father who is African, so I have the taste buds of an…

— Alicia Keys

I had a relationship with an Italian chick that was built on just fighting and sex. As much as all women won't…

— Denis Leary

My father is Italian, and I never met my paternal grandparents. The family name was 'Caroselli' and it was changed in the…

— Steve Carell

Sydney in general is eclectic. You can be on that brilliant blue ocean walk in the morning and then within 20 minutes…

— Baz Luhrmann

I guess there are very few actors that I've worked with that I would like to work with again. You never think…

— Charlize Theron

Patterned after an Italian Renaissance palace, it is 88 times as large and one millionth as valuable to the continuation of man.…

— Norman Mailer

Italian people are so proud to show off. A little bit too much, I have to say. Wherever you go, they prepare…

— Gino D'Acampo

It was impossible for me to believe that conditions in Europe could be worse than they were in the Polish section of…

— Alice Hamilton

Enoch...why are you here? Why has my spirit been incarnated into a physical bodi in this world generally? Or specifically, why am…

— Neal Stephenson

Shopping as lifestyle is really a sub-cultural problem. When the strictures that set you apart or oppressed you, disappear, is there a…

— Daniel Mendelsohn

But still, I’d be darned if I was going to be one of those Americans who stomp around Italy barking commands in…

— Barbara Kingsolver

When I was in my teens and 20s, I looked to older Italian and French women. They always seemed so incredibly attractive…

— Justine Bateman

You really have to wonder why we even bother to get up in the morning. I mean, really: Why work? Simply to…

— Douglas Coupland

The chorus-ending from Aristophanes, raised every night from every ditch that drains into the Mediterranean, hoarse and primeval as the raven's croak,…

— G. M. Trevelyan

When I am walking in Central Park, I recognize the Italians. Because an Italian, even when he jogs, he's dressed perfect.

— Diego Della Valle

I was born and raised in New York, but my family on both sides is of Italian descent.

— Aida Turturro

The first acting I ever did was an Italian commercial. Once I did that, I said, 'this acting thing is awesome.'

— Laura Prepon

Pasta isn't just for Italian food anymore. Now there are tasty pasta recipes found in Asian cuisine, and it's emerging as a…

— Marcus Samuelsson

My favorite type of food is probably Italian. But I love steakhouses. I love Mexican Food. I mean, I really like it…

— Jimmer Fredette

Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.

— H. L. Mencken

“She did not know what people of other nations ate, and did not care. For Italian food was the best.”

— Edward Rutherfurd

I came from an Italian house. The refrigerator was always full. I never knew you had to buy food. I thought there…

— Ray Romano

Cain understands domestic issues because he had experience selling pizza; and he understands international issues because pizza is Italian.

— Stephen Colbert

English football is different: always on the attack. Although one thing is clear. The best football is the Italian.

— Gabriel Batistuta

How do you say 'bring me sausage and eggs or I'll slit your throat' in Italian?" "Look it up in the phrase…

— Regina Doman

I love Italy. I always said that some part of me is Italian since I moved to Milano.

— Kevin-Prince Boateng

Get me a skinny frappuccino. I have no idea what that is - I would like to think you would be presented…

— Miranda Hart

Once you understand the foundations of cooking - whatever kind you like, whether it's French or Italian or Japanese - you really…

— Thomas Keller

During the war an Italian girl saved my life. She hid me in her basement in Cleveland.

— Henny Youngman

I got married on a beach in Italy. It was very romantic getting married in Italian. But I've no idea what we…

— Denis Lawson

[Italian men] are like show poodles. Sometimes they look so good I want to applaud.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

The best-dressed man is an Italian who is trying to look English, or an Englishman who is trying to look Italian.

— Diane von Furstenberg

I'm a typical mutt American. I have an Italian last name. Half-Mexican, half-Jewish.

— Eric Garcetti