Italy Quotes · Page 16

Thank God for the Italians, the most forgiving people of the world. And they sing so loud you can barely hear the…

— Jared Leto

Italy, my Italy! Queen Mary's saying serves for me (When fortune's malice Lost her Calais): "Open my heart, and you will see…

— Robert Browning

I like playing Italian teams. To me, they are the fairest sportsmen of them all. I don't agree with the Italy stereotypes…

— Thomas Muller

“And although cars and motorcycles zipped around, all he saw was the girl coming toward him like a scene in a movie.”

— Peter Leonard

It was tough moving to Italy so young. You don't have much experience of life, you are leaving your family and everything…

— Jorginho

The Communists at that moment were very strong in Italy, and the Italian Communist Party was the biggest Communist Party outside the…

— Giovanni Agnelli

I think I went to Italy initially for the art, architecture, food and history, but I stayed there because of the people…

— Frances Mayes

I feel that the Italian identity is mixed. It's time to state this and to stress the fact that whoever lands in…

— Alice Rohrwacher

It was the greatest thing in the world getting fat. Every meal out was an event. Or we'd go to Italy and…

— Kirstie Alley

“...there are women who devote themselves entirely to their families, their husbands and children, and give up cultivating their femininity. Mother rebelled…

— Sveva Casati Modignani

From Roman times to the present, Italy has been a country to fall in love with - a tribute to all that…

— Erica Jong

“I picked up a snake once. In Italy." "Why did you do that?" "For a bet." "Was it poisonous?" "We didn't know.…

— Hilary Mantel

Italy's assets are her style, her beauty, her creativity, her passion, her energy, her technology; and these will be core brand values…

— Lapo Elkann

If you've got a plot the size of a car or a tiny yard in Italy, you're going to be growing tomatoes…

— Frances Mayes

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

“The first move was to turn to the one great, perfectly visible and certified revolution in the recent history of the human…

— Nicola Lagioia

“Totally contrary to my genetic makeup, contrary to my usual behavior and preferences, contrary to all logic, I fell madly in love…

— Nancy Yuktonis Solak

“Carlina felt as if sudden sunshine had filled the kitchen... [Carlina's reaction to Stefano Garini]”

— Beate Boeker

I have family in Italy that my mother keeps in contact with, but I don't because I don't speak Italian.

— Pauly D

In the 1970s, British food was beginning to get good, whereas in France it was just starting its long, sad decline. My…

— Sebastian Faulks

I backpacked through France and Italy in my teens, and then I was at Cannes with the first movie I did in…

— Colin Firth

I'm down with the crew like Mussolini in Italy. I rock with The Roots like the Giving Tree.

— Talib Kweli

“Love is the linchpin that connects the material world with higher levels of existence.”

— Julianne Davidow

Everybody in Italy cooks. They have a better knowledge of the kitchen - that's the place around which the whole of Italian…

— Gino D'Acampo

“Who can resist sleep at two or three in the afternoon in these sunlit parts of the Mediterranean?”

— André Aciman

I've never been much of a European traveler. London once on a book tour, and Italy because that's where Ferraris are from.…

— John Ridley

I owe a great debt to motor-racing, and the first place I went to in Europe when I was 20 was Italy,…

— Billy Al Bengston

When I'm in England I feel very Italian - and in Italy I feel very English. I always feel like the guy…

— Jack Savoretti

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

— D. H. Lawrence

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

— Ivan Perisic

“...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'm definitely not going back to Italy willingly. They'll have to catch me and pull me back kicking and screaming into a…

— Amanda Knox

I always go back to Italy for holidays because I live half my life on the island of Sardinia.

— Gino D'Acampo

“I am glad I will be leaving Italy. It costs too much to lover her.[The emigrant's lament]”

— Maria Martin

I had some other offers from other teams from Italy and Spain but when Chelsea came to get me, I did not…

— Marcos Alonso

Football in Italy at the end of the '80s and beginning of '90s was the best all over the world.

— Lothar Matthaus

No part of Italian society should see itself as exempt from the effort to save Italy from collapse.

— Giorgio Napolitano

“Paoletta turned to him with a dark face. Chase had never seen her look so foreboding. “You’d better watch out, Chase. He’s…

— Stefania Mattana

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

— Noah Taylor