Best Italians Quotes
118 Italians quotes by 105 unique authors
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Whoever heard of such a mixture of languages in one army, since there were French, Flemings, Frisians, Gauls, Sayonards, Lotharingians, Allemani, Bavarians, Normans, English, Scots,…
— Unknown Author
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The Italians are said to be noisy and to gesticulate, but that is a libel dreamed up by the English.
— Jean Giono
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President Clinton bankrupted Chrysler so that Italians could buy it to ship jobs overseas to China.
— Joe Biden
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To hear two American men congratulating each other on being heterosexual is one of the most chilling experiences - and unique to the United States.…
— Gore Vidal
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A story begins and it always passes from the subjunctive to the declarative. And Italians don't seem to care about making a fine distinction between…
— Donna Leon
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Thank God for the Italians, the most forgiving people of the world. And they sing so loud you can barely hear the music!
— Jared Leto
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Italians are fantastic people, really. They can work you over in an alley while singing an opera.
— Don Rickles
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Most correspondents came from the former colonial powers - there were British, French, and a lot of Italians, because there were a lot of Italian…
— Ryszard Kapuscinski
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When in Italy, you should meet Italians.
— Isa Miranda
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I have been further enlightened by the conversation and correspondence of some illustrious Italians, whom I would gladly name, were I not afraid of exposing…
— Edmond Francois Valentin About
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The Italians have had 2,000 years to fix up the Forum and just look at the place!
— P.J. O'Rourke
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Every field has its taboos. In algebraic geometry the taboos are (1) writing a draft that can be followed by anyone but two or three…
— Gian-Carlo Rota
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I was so besotted with '8½' that, when it was on TV, I used to take pictures with my 35-mm. camera of the frames of…
— David Chase
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It's not just we Italians who are caught up in the difficulty.
— Giorgio Napolitano
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The Italians live well. They have problems, like all countries, but they are well-dressed, the women are pretty.
— Francois Pinault
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It is not impossible to rule Italians, but it would be useless.
— Benito Mussolini
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The poor Americans are so busy defending the rights of Hindus in Pakistan, Moslems in India, Jews in Palestine, Koreans in Japan, Italians in Yugoslavia…
— George Mikes
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The idea of 'ferie,' or summer break, is a long tradition of which all Italians, including myself, participate. It's a time to relax, reflect and…
— Frida Giannini
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The Italians have voices like peacocks - German gives me a cold in the head - and Russian is nothing but sneezing
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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The Italians are fond of red clothes, peacock plumes, and embroidery; and I remember one rainy morning in the city of Palermo, the street was…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Italy is still very much the same place it was 2,000 years ago. Italians are still the same .. there's a sense of beauty and…
— Bruno Heller
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Abstract paintings must be as real as those created by the 16th century Italians.
— Frank Stella
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All Italians are plunderers.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Berlusconi's advice to Italians trying to escape poverty: "Do it my way and earn more money".
— Silvio Berlusconi
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The Italians are not passionate: passion has deep reserves. They are easily moved, and often affectionate, but they rarely have any abiding passion of any…
— D. H. Lawrence
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