Pertini has interpreted as their best the worst about…

“With Italy made, we must now make the Italians.”

— Jean F. Blashfield

I will be the defense attorney for all Italians.

— Giuseppe Conte

The Italians have long known what makes a livable town or city.

— Norman Foster

To see how many Italians are going out of Italy, the sort of exodus, a great generation leaving my country, I think is the…

— Enrico Letta

One thing about Italians is you can't let them in your head. They're inquisitive. The English and Germans are a dog tribe; the Italians…

— Terence Trent D'Arby

The Italians are not passionate: passion has deep reserves. They are easily moved, and often affectionate, but they rarely have any abiding passion of…

— D. H. Lawrence

Italy is not technically part of the Third World, but no one has told the Italians.

— P. J. O'Rourke

The Italians have their priorities right: They're driven, they do their work, but they really enjoy the day-to-day and they don't put off the…

— Frances Mayes

By 1948, the Italians had begun to pull themselves together, demonstrating once more their astonishing ability to cope with disaster which is so perfectly…

— Gore Vidal

Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land.

— E. M. Forster

The Italians are not indulgent, as Americans are. They don't have the patience to teach young singers how to move. They think you should…

— Marcello Giordani

Italians are great improvisers. If something unforeseen happens, they throw up their hands, and they adjust.

— Max von Sydow

“Italy has been a single, united country only since 1870. For many centuries before this, it was a collection of independent “city states.” Each…

— Marilyn Tolhurst

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

— Danny Aiello

American men are more open, they are readier to express their emotions, but they also get frightened easily. Italians are used to drama. For…

— Elisabetta Canalis