Italian Quotes · Page 16

When I was a child I watched the Italian league a lot because there were many Brazilians there.

— Oscar

The media and their journalists are merely megaphones for stupidity, the verb par excellence.

— William C. Brown

Hitler decided that Mussolini must be freed from the Italian Partisans because Benito was his friend and had acted in good faith.

— Otto Skorzeny

I am Italian. Springsteen's mostly Italian, too. We're both Italians with Dutch names, one of the many things we have in common.

— Steven Van Zandt

Watching Italian opera, all those male sopranos screeching, stupid fat couples rolling their eyes about. That's not love, it's just rubbish.

— Peter Shaffer

Only eliminating all pains in the ass the real mild and gentle man can live in peace.

— William C. Brown

I think it is over-rated. Whenever I go to an Italian restaurant, I never get the tiramisu.

— Rob Reiner

“I am getting rather astonishing in my Italian conversation. I believe I talk a mixture of Dante and the worst modern slang.”

— Oscar Wilde

I'm Italian and the privilege of working in my home country would fill me with pride. However, the opportunity to work in…

— Fabio Cannavaro

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

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 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

I live in New York, but I am always delighted to come to Europe because I am European and grew up here…

— Isabella Rossellini

“If I were not an atheist, I think I would have to be a Catholic because if it wasn’t the forces of…

— Douglas Adams

Streets crowded with people strolling, or sitting at outdoor cafes. And always, talking, gesturing, singing, laughing. I liked Rome immediately.Everybody was a…

— Kirk Douglas

Sometimes, looking up at Sophiatown... I have felt I was looking at an Italian village somewhere in Umbria. For you do ‘look…

— Trevor Huddleston

Well, I have a lot of appetites and try to revel in almost everything, so inspiration can even come from a well-appointed…

— Patrick Fabian

To my taste, the men in Rome are ridiculously, hurtfully, stupidly beautiful. More beautiful even than Roman women, to be honest. Italian…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

In Italy there are 5 million legal migrants. They're integrated, and they're welcome. The problem of the Muslim presence is increasingly worrying.…

— Matteo Salvini

The fellows who amuze me are the Albanians. An Albanian on the mash is almost exactly like the medieval swells of the…

— Edith Durham

My childhood was pretty colorful; I like to use the word turbulent. But it was a great time to grow up, the…

— Michael K. Williams

Some princes, so as to hold securely the state, have disarmed their subjects, others have kept their subject towns distracted by factions...Our…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

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

— Lapo Elkann

I have always been considered to be the most German among Italian economists, which I always received as a compliment, but was…

— Mario Monti

Many of the books I read, I had to read them in French, English, or Italian, because they hadn't been translated into…

— Antonio Munoz Molina

Also we Italians have something to Elvis Presley: to offer one of the rare occasions when we prefer to be Italian rather…

— Indro Montanelli

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

I love Italian food; it's soulful like French food. Italian food is original and homey; it's market-driven, but also can be locally…

— Daniel Boulud

People say when if you can do that you can speak italian even though you know you cant

— Asheya

[On Italian:] One may almost call it a language that talks of itself, and always seems more witty than its speakers.

— Madame de Stael

I could play Arab roles, even German roles, Italian roles because I had that look.

— Kabir Bedi

The Romans spent the next 200 years using their great engineering skill to construct ruins all over Europe.

— Dave Barry

I learned to say 'hello' in German, French, Spanish, Dutch, Chinese, Indonesian, and Italian - languages of the countries I've visited.

— Suzuka Nakamoto

Well, yeah. You said you wanted Italian. See. Chef Boyardee. He makes one the best stuff. (Tabitha)

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

“Tell me the truth, Italian. You don't like it because it's strong. You like it because it's illegal.”

— Beppe Severgnini

When I wasn't famous, I had a lot of friends, almost all of them Italian. The racism only started when I started…

— Mario Balotelli

Look to the Premier League. Are there any black managers? Look at the Italian league? Are there any black managers? The list…

— Dwight Yorke

My friend told me he was going to a fancy dress party as an Italian island. I said to him, ‘Don’t be…

— Tim Vine