Italy Quotes

Nothing except time is wasted in Italy.

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

I miss Italy; that's beyond doubt.

— Antonio Conte

My time in Italy helped me.

— Antonio Rudiger

Thou Paradise of exiles, Italy!

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Italy's siren call lures us more and more.

— Frances Mayes

I cherish my beautiful Italian heritage.

— Lidia Bastianich

California is an Italy without its art.

— Oscar Wilde

I don't feel like the saviour of Italy.

— Luca Toni

But we did the Pink Panther not in Hollywood, in Italy.

— Claudia Cardinale

I was glad to see Italy win. All the guys on the team were Italians.

— Tommy Lasorda

Anarchy works. Italy has proved it for a thousand years.

— Edward Abbey

The Creator made Italy from designs by Michelangelo.

— Mark Twain

I was born in Catanzaro, Italy, from a Calabrese mother and a Ligurian father.

— Renato Dulbecco

“We've grown accustomed to living smaller and more simply.”

— Nancy Petralia

It is rather unusual for Italy to be at the forefront of pro-market initiatives.

— Mario Monti

“One doesn't come to Italy for niceness, one comes for life!”

— E.M. Forster

It's me, it's my habit to perform live onstage every four, five years. In Italy, it's my habit.

— Roberto Benigni

The Italians live well. They have problems, like all countries, but they are well-dressed, the women are pretty.

— Francois Pinault

If there is one country and its people that have contributed most to western civilisation's man-made world continuously for the last 2000…

— Harry Seidler

You're a Catholic in Italy when you're born, it's unthinkable to stop being Catholic. You just take the rules a lot more…

— Andrew Greeley

When I lived in Greece and off the coast of Italy, I enjoyed a branzino dish so much that I created my…

— Camila Alves

“Maybe he would not run away after all, even if exposed to all her family's idiosyncrasies. [Carlina's biggest fear about Stefano]”

— Beate Boeker

I like people like Robert De Niro and Anthony Hopkins. And Gianfranco Zola, who played for Chelsea and Italy. He's an artist…

— Phil Daniels

Mexico and Italy are countries where you can almost taste the atmosphere from the teeming stands when you're on the field, and…

— Lothar Matthaus

In Italy, the coaches are very attentive to the details. They really study things, and that is a big difference here. They…

— Kaka

In Italy, kids are taken to restaurants very early, they're welcome there, and they learn how to behave. You don't see a…

— Anthony Bourdain

“It has been said that Italy offers the best of everything in life. Certainly, many Italians think so. Italians are serious about…

— Jean F. Blashfield

I'm a pessimist about the euro, but not about Europe. So the southern periphery, Spain, Italy, Greece, leave - Italy might be…

— Tyler Cowen

“As the last chimes die away, a series of contorted male shrieks rise up from somewhere nearby; a late coupling between the…

— Sarah Dunant

The word 'Italy' is a geographical expression, a description which is useful shorthand, but has none of the political significance the efforts…

— Klemens von Metternich

“ Today’s Italians Many Italians are naturally expressive and affectionate people. They tend to talk easily and rapidly, making descriptive gestures. They…

— Marilyn Tolhurst

Italy will never be a normal country. Because Italy is Italy. If we were a normal country, we wouldn't have Rome. We…

— Matteo Renzi

“You’ve saved your money and bought a ticket to Fashion Week in Milan. All the world’s great clothing designers will be showing…

— Jean F. Blashfield

“Rome We stopped for lunch at a sidewalk café. Like the Italians, we started with an antipasto (appetizer) of grilled vegetables. I…

— Lisa Halvorsen

“Local fog in Venice has a name: nebbia. It obliterates all reflections ... and everything that has a shape: buildings, people, colonnades,…

— Joseph Brodsky

“Giorgia Meloni Prime Minister of Italy says in 2025. Islam is not compatible with western values, This is my reply to her.…

— Mohammed Zaki Ansari

Saving Italy is an astonishing account of a little known American effort to save Italy’s vast store of priceless monuments and art…

— Tom Brokaw

Italy spills over to everything. Italy is a huge banking system. It has been the major banking system in Eastern Europe. It's…

— George Friedman

“(The paradox of Italian soccer). As everyone knows, Italian men are the most foppish representatives of their sex on the planet. They…

— Franklin Foer

“Scientists say that the palm tree line, that is the climate suitable to growth of the palm, is moving north, five hundred…

— Leonardo Sciascia