Italians Quotes · Page 3

“[Italy is] A country where pleasure principle dominates.”

— Sari Gilbert

I've got nothing to teach to the Italians - I love playing in this league.

— Mario Gomez

“Italians can drink hot chocolate and eat ices almost at the same time, without dying!”

— Lyubov Dostoyevskaya

The lucky thing was that I was Italian; when the other Italians saw me fight back, they came to my defence.

— Gregory Corso

Eat more like the French. Or the Japanese. Or the Italians. Or the Greeks.

— Michael Pollan

We Italians are very superstitious so before the game we prefer to predict that the opponents will win.

— Marco Verratti

If saying 'Italians first' is xenophobic, then I don't know what to say.

— Matteo Salvini

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

— P. J. O'Rourke

Generally, Italians just eat better. They're not doing that thing where they're eating two or three hundred grams of pasta. They're never…

— Gino D'Acampo

When the Italians play the Germans it'll be fascinating. Mightn't be very good football but it'll be great psychology.

— Eamon

When the national team plays, everyone feels a part of it. Everyone comes together. And when Italians come together, we tend to…

— Fabio Cannavaro

What I have always liked about Italians is the way they are serious when they need to be but know how to…

— Charles Leclerc

Anyone who starts badmouthing Latino immigrants is not only a racist but ignorant. You need to refer them to what was written…

— James Gray

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

— Elisabetta Canalis

“Alexia seemed to recall hearing one matron complain that the Italians were very passionate in their support of balls.”

— Gail Carriger

It's in the nature of Italians to live life with a positive tone and to celebrate the invitations that come along in…

— Lidia Bastianich

Italians have always had a high savings rate. They love putting their money into their own government bonds - even more than…

— Kenneth Fisher

“Today someone asked me if that old stereotype about hot-headed Italians is true. I answered this way: About 2,000 years ago, there…

— Quentin R. Bufogle

At the outset of the creation of the euro in 1999, it was expected that the southern eurozone economies would behave like…

— Alan Greenspan

Italians know about human nature - they understand human nature perhaps better than anyone else does. They know that people are weak…

— Donna Leon

The Yankees, the first mechanicians in the world, are engineers - just as the Italians are musicians and the Germans metaphysicians -…

— Jules Verne

Sonia Gandhi and her husband have always been persons I look at with a lot of respect. Of course, one of the…

— Luca Cordero di Montezemolo

Maybe Italians are a bit less restrained: they can be less rigid and sometimes they stray a little in their ways of…

— Stefano Gabbana

My parents, the effect that [Frank Sinatra] had on the Italian community, in terms of all our friends at the house were…

— Robert Davi

Some Italians are geniuses, but you have to find a balance.

— Alain Prost

“In my father’s scheme of things, there were Italians and then there was the rest of the world.”

— Janet Evanovich

We Italians need to feel like we're under pressure, we need to see an enemy.

— Gianluca Vialli

The Italians have had 2,000 years to fix up the Forum and just look at the place!

— P. J. O'Rourke

Italians' relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Just give the Italians a chance for drama and they take it with both hands.

— Ingrid Bergman

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

— E. M. Forster

It's not just we Italians who are caught up in the difficulty.

— Giorgio Napolitano

The Italians - they cannot talk without shaking the hands. And I am like that, I'm from Brazil as well.

— Felipe Massa

The Italians seem to have a better attitude with kids and the food is great!

— Anthony Bourdain

We Italians respect food and ingredients more than anyone else.

— Gino D'Acampo

The Italians say it is not necessary to be a stag; but we ought not to be a tortoise.

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Norman Foster

It is not impossible to rule Italians, but it would be useless.

— Benito Mussolini

Italians know that what matters is style, not fashion. Italian style does not have social or age boundaries.

— Stefano Gabbana

I know Italians and I like them. A lot of my father's best friends were Italians.

— Kirk Douglas