Italy Quotes · Page 14

“You can tell when Iraqis are getting upset because, like Italians we start talking with our hands.”

— Wafaa Bilal

“Italians love emotional people. If you're reserved you either have something to hide or you're just plain stupid.”

— Joe Novella

Ingrid Bergman in 'Journey to Italy' just goes off and looks at things for most of the film.

— Lee Isaac Chung

“Whether a gastronomic tour of Italy, an elegant meal at the home of an Italian acquaintance, or "cooking Italian" back in one's…

— Claudia Piras

I cook a lot of Italian food. Bucatini Pomodoro is my best: it's a fat spaghetti with tomato, olive oil, and reminds…

— Bill Rancic

Brexit is a disaster, Italy won't be real about its debt, and the European Union is in trouble.

— John Layfield

I have the Italian flag embroidered onto all my dress-shirt cuffs. I am very proud to be Italian.

— Lapo Elkann

My success is that I have these two great cultures behind me. One is Italian. I've continued to nurture that. But I…

— Lidia Bastianich

Italy is still very much the same place it was 2,000 years ago. Italians are still the same .. there's a sense…

— Bruno Heller

Indeed, when I came to Italy, I expected to encounter a certain amount of resentment, but have received instead empathy from most…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“Remember that it's only by going off the track that you get to know the country...And don't, let me beg you, go…

— Anonymous

The more I see of Italy, the more I adore the Italians. They have so much heart, so much cheerfulness and gaiety,…

— Marie Van Vorst

“We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster than we should that we go bankrupt by the…

— André Aciman

I suppose that Italy must always lie like some lovely sunken island at the bottom of all passionate dreams, from which at…

— Mary Hunter Austin

But Italy is not an intellectual country. On the subway in Tokyo everybody reads. In Italy, they don't. Don't evaluate Italy from…

— Umberto Eco

Sicily has suffered 13 foreign dominations from which she has taken both the best and the worst. The sequence of different cultures…

— Andrea Camilleri

Italy to me is like the mean mother. Whatever I do, it's never good enough. People say I'm the queen of Cannes,…

— Asia Argento

I would say that Juventus is a myth not only in Italy, because it's the most loved team in Italy, but also…

— Lapo Elkann

It's easy to understand why the most beautiful poems about England in the spring were written by poets living in Italy at…

— Philip Dunne

I make a star's salary when I do horror, because I can still open a movie in Italy or Spain or Germany.

— Robert Englund

I have been going to Italy since 1980, but I always went to do work. I did not live overseas, because I…

— Bill Dixon

I won 37 trophies and I enjoyed some remarkable moments, such as our win over Italy at the 2009 Confederations Cup.

— Essam El Hadary

Politicians in Italy seem to spend so much time giving interviews, they don't have time to make the laws.

— Toni Servillo

My first trip to Italy's Tuscany region was in 1990 when my husband, Sting, recorded an album there.

— Trudie Styler

Neapolitans are extremely empathetic, whereas the typical northern attitude is more about not showing or sharing your feelings.

— Toni Servillo

The life in Italy is the life of a wealthy country: consumptions haven't diminished, it's hard to find seats on planes, our…

— Silvio Berlusconi

“An ancestor from the 1530s would find little different in the 1930s. [Basilicata, Italy]”

— Maria Martin

I grew up in Italy, so for me, Naples pizza is the only type of pizza that there really is.

— Laura Jane Grace

I first think of intelligence. You need it for surviving in Italy because Italy is so pompous.

— Francesco Clemente

I used to dye my hair different colors and have crazy periods, especially early in my career when I played in Italy.

— Marko Jaric

Italy is definitely where I feel most at home, or alternatively, living in total wilderness, in the bush in Australia.

— Noah Taylor

I suppose my liking for Italy is partly atavism, my family are of the old Roman stock. They came from the Alps…

— Gore Vidal

People have an image of Italians. When I go somewhere in the world, I don't care where it is, when they look…

— Danny Aiello

When I think of Italy now, I think of accessories, possessions, bad TV, fake boobs, BMWs.

— Valeria Golino

'Swept Away' is one of my favorite films of my father. I've seen it about 20 times. It's a cult movie in Italy.

— Adriano Giannini

One thing we don't have in Italy is the culture of Chinese, Indian, French and Thai food.

— Gino D'Acampo

In Italy, everybody buys silver for every special occasion. Baptisms, weddings, you get silver.

— Debi Mazar

For us to go to Italy and to penetrate into Italy is like a most fascinating act of self-discovery

— D. H. Lawrence

“...the city of Naples was like this: wonderful from a distance, but when seen close up, it was fragmentary, indefinable, and coarse...”

— Franco di Mare

I really like Italy and Inter. When I was a kid I used to watch several leagues and I knew the names…

— Ivan Perisic