Italian Quotes
499 quotes by 398 authors
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Very few of the early Italian humanists were really humane.
— Irving Babbitt
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The passion of the Italian or the Italian-American population is endless for food and lore and everything about it.
— Mario Batali
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I come from an Italian family. One of the greatest and most profound expressions we would ever use in conversations or arguments was a slamming…
— Mario Batali
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I just signed to do my next book with Ecco Press, a new primer or encyclopedia. This will be my take on what classic Italian…
— Mario Batali
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Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top; Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance art surveyed conquered nature through…
— John Berger
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Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.
— Ambrose Bierce
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My style in Italian is very old-style.
— Andrea Bocelli
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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 in both senses:…
— Andrea Bocelli
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I love eating shabu-shabu in Japan - a kind of beef hotpot. But if you're talking about authentic, traditional food, then Italian cooking is one…
— Andrea Bocelli
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I'm a big pasta fan. I'm a big Italian food fan. Anything Italian - I love cheese, mozzarella. Mozzarella is my favorite, so I have…
— Malin Akerman
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Life is too short, and I'm Italian. I'd much rather eat pasta and drink wine than be a size 0.
— Sophia Bush
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When I'm in England, I know I'm a visitor, but being a white man in England with ancestry that's German and Italian, I have a…
— Nicolas Cage
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My father is Italian, and I never met my paternal grandparents. The family name was 'Caroselli' and it was changed in the mid '50s. I…
— Steve Carell
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Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi looks in the mirror and sees a playboy of the old school. And men such as Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Arnold Schwarzenegger,…
— Graydon Carter
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My father was an American who could cuss in Italian and make an aria out of it. It was wonderful to watch. But then again,…
— Dominic Chianese
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I love Italian food but that's too generic a term for what's available now: you have to narrow it down to Tuscan, Sicilian, and so…
— Lee Child
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My boyfriend is Italian and from New Jersey, so naturally he was thrilled to meet Joe Pesci.
— Diablo Cody
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I received a letter just before I left office from a man. I don't know why he chose to write it, but I'm glad he…
— Ronald Reagan
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I am engaged in answering that Italian buffoon, Mazotti, whose views upon the larval development of the tropical termites have excited my derision and contempt…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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what are the objects of an useful American education? classical knowlege, modern languages & chiefly French, Spanish, & Italian; Mathematics; Natural philosophy; Natural History; Civil…
— Thomas Jefferson
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