The Italians were eating with forks when the French were still eating each other. — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
The Italians are the most civilized people. And they're very warm. Basically, they're Jews with great architecture. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
To see how many Italians are going out of Italy, the sort of exodus, a great generation leaving my country, I think… — Enrico Letta Copy Share Image
[During the Renaissance] the Italians said, "We are one in the Father: we will go back." The Northern races said, "We are… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The Italians are not passionate: passion has deep reserves. They are easily moved, and often affectionate, but they rarely have any abiding… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I get on well with Italians. Which makes things easier when I meet, for example, my future mechanics at Ferrari. — Charles Leclerc Copy Share Image
I'm secretly a clown, or maybe it's not much of a secret! I'm a little putzo, as the Italians say - a… — Matthew Settle Copy Share Image
“When an Italian marries a Greek, you get the union of two lots of people who believe themselves to be the creators… — Joe Novella Copy Share Image
The Italians live well. They have problems, like all countries, but they are well-dressed, the women are pretty. — Francois Pinault Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Italians in particular are seen as either benign and child-like (the sweet old nonna with her meatballs), menacing mobsters, or hyper-sexualized housewives… — Christopher Castellani Copy Share Image
There is in the DNA of the Italians a bit of madness, which in the overwhelming majority of cases is positive. It… — Matteo Renzi Copy Share Image
The Italians are very unmusical. If I go to a Protestant church in London or Amsterdam or listen to a black choir,… — Gian Carlo Menotti Copy Share Image
Tiles, the best furniture, fabrics, bath fixtures, bronze - just leaf through any design magazine and you immediately understand they're all 'Made… — Lapo Elkann Copy Share Image
Maybe we like our politicians to appear like bumbling oafs. It certainly never did Ronald Reagan or George Bush any harm. The… — Rory Bremner Copy Share Image
For Russians, to whom Pushkin's poem 'Eugene Onegin' is sacred text, the ballet's story and personae are as familiar and filled with… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
One thing about Italians is you can't let them in your head. They're inquisitive. The English and Germans are a dog tribe;… — Terence Trent D'Arby Copy Share Image
Sicilians, Calabrians, Neapolitans - there were real differences between them, and then all of a sudden they're all living in the US,… — Jonas Carpignano Copy Share Image
The people of Texas are rightly proud of their own, just like the French and the Italians, but visiting artists have often… — Clifford Ross Copy Share Image
I can cite a chapter and verse of literature at the times saying Italians don't speak our language, these folks coming from… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
“...the pride taken by the Italians in their gifted women is among the most important facts in the history of their Renaissance.” — Walter Shaw Sparrow Copy Share Image
The Italians are not indulgent, as Americans are. They don't have the patience to teach young singers how to move. They think… — Marcello Giordani Copy Share Image
In America they like my spicy TV alter ego, probably because there were a lot of Italians and Hispanics in the country,… — Bruno Tonioli Copy Share Image
Italians are hot and you feel the passion more there than in England. Anglo-Saxon people are more distant. It's not that you… — Marcel Desailly Copy Share Image
Italians tend to be less rigidly moral and law-abiding than do Anglo-Saxons. They also have a profound suspicion of the state and… — Donna Leon Copy Share Image
I grew up in a neighborhood with blacks and Puerto Ricans and Italians, the whole gamut, so conveying unity has always meant… — Carmine Giovinazzo Copy Share Image
“Years later he would add that Italians have “no other aim than to live” because they “discovered a long time ago that… — Gerald Martin Copy Share Image
I will never find people like the Italians... there is this spontaneity, this living life with a smile, to its fullest. — Pavel Nedved Copy Share Image
The United States didn't ban Italian immigration in the 1920s because a small minority of Italians became members of the Mafia, and… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
When I am walking in Central Park, I recognize the Italians. Because an Italian, even when he jogs, he's dressed perfect. — Diego Della Valle Copy Share Image
I don't think Italian football is a particularly appealing product for anyone that wants to invest unless they are Italians that understand… — Gianluca Vialli Copy Share Image
“My goodness carina mia, you are so thin. You do not eat enough. Mangia, mangia, mangia! [Alicia's Italian mother's view of her… — Celia Conrad Copy Share Image
“Italians love emotional people. If you're reserved you either have something to hide or you're just plain stupid.” — Joe Novella Copy Share Image
“We were not a people who charged into war at the beck and call of bugle or trumpet. No, we fought to… — Viet Thanh Nguyen Copy Share Image
Also we Italians have something to Elvis Presley: to offer one of the rare occasions when we prefer to be Italian rather… — Indro Montanelli Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I'm sure there are a lot of Italians who refer to themselves as goombahs and greaseballs and whatever. That's what people do.… — Samuel L. Jackson Copy Share Image
Thank God for the Italians, the most forgiving people of the world. And they sing so loud you can barely hear the… — Jared Leto Copy Share Image
The themes that make one laugh always stem from poverty, hunger, misery, old age, sickness, and death. These are the themes that… — Mario Monicelli Copy Share Image
The Italians are wise before the deede, the Germanes in the deede, the French after the deede. [The Italians are wise before… — George Herbert Copy Share Image
![“[During the Renaissance] the Italians said, "We are one in the Father: we will go back." The Northern races said, "We are one in Christ, we will go on.” quote by D. H. Lawrence](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/720/d-h-lawrence-426_christ_during-the-renaissance-the-italians-said_2171833.png)
![“My goodness carina mia, you are so thin. You do not eat enough. Mangia, mangia, mangia! [Alicia's Italian mother's view of her daughter.]” quote by Celia Conrad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/37b/celia-conrad-72336_cozy-mystery_my-goodness-carina-mia-you-are-so-thin-y_2943370.jpg)
![“The Italians are wise before the deede, the Germanes in the deede, the French after the deede. [The Italians are wise before the deed, the Germens in the deed, the French after the deed.]” quote by George Herbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2e9/george-herbert-107_deeds_the-italians-are-wise-before-the-deede-t_1494787.jpg)
