Best Italians Sayings
118 Italians quotes by 105 unique authors
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My family was all born in Sicily and I'm Italian-American. They're the real thing. They're authentic Italians, and honestly they're the most open-minded, nicest people…
— Vinny Guadagnino
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Most Italians who came to this country are very patriotic. There was this exciting possibility that if you worked real hard, and you loved something,…
— Francis Ford Coppola
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I never went to a psychologist or psychiatrist in my life. Never. You know, Italians are a little prejudiced against that kind of thing.
— Francis Ford Coppola
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The lucky thing was that I was Italian; when the other Italians saw me fight back, they came to my defence.
— Gregory Corso
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I know Italians and I like them. A lot of my father's best friends were Italians.
— Kirk Douglas
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The French, the Italians, the Germans, the Spanish and the English have spent centuries killing each other.
— Umberto Eco
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I am disgusted by the anti-Semitism of many Italians, of many Europeans.
— Oriana Fallaci
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Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land.
— E. M. Forster
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The Italians are very strong defensively. They showed in Euro 2000 how good defensively they are.
— Alan Hansen
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The British are the last national group who can be insulted by Hollywood without any comeback. These days if you depict Italians as gangsters, Saudis…
— Simon Hoggart
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When you visit a foreign city you are in it, but not of it, separated by a glass wall. Once, while a student, I was…
— Simon Hoggart
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I love places that have an incredible history. I love the Italian way of life. I love the food. I love the people. I love…
— Elton John
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Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one.
— Pope John XXIII
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Italians know about human nature - they understand human nature perhaps better than anyone else does. They know that people are weak and greedy and…
— Donna Leon
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I can design a collection in a day and I always do, cause I've always got a load of Italians on my back, moaning that…
— Alexander McQueen
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I am certain that most Germans have instinctive liking for Italy, just as Italians admire Germans for their many qualities.
— Mario Monti
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As an Irish person, there's a historical fascination with America: America is the default green and promised land for Irish people and Italians; that's what…
— Dylan Moran
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You see how Spanish, Italians, Portuguese play football. I don't say they are perfect, I say English football has a few things to learn from…
— Jose Mourinho
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All the suits I buy have to be tailored, no matter what. But it's not just because of my height; it's because I've been skating…
— Apolo Ohno
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The English say, Yours Truly, and mean it. The Italians say, I kiss your feet, and mean, I kick your head.
— Wilfred Owen
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I'd like to do a number of films. Westerns. Genre pieces. Maybe another film about Italian Americans where they're not gangsters, just to prove that…
— Martin Scorsese
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We have a house in Umbria that we bought just before we went to America. That meant we couldn't go there as often as we…
— Ashley Jensen
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Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you've lost that, you've…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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Italians have a little joke, that the world is so hard a man must have two fathers to look after him, and that's why they…
— Mario Puzo
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I know you have not thought about it. Italians always act without thinking, it's the glory and the downfall of your civilisation. A German plans…
— Louis de Bernieres
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