Behaving badly Quote by G.J. Meyer

“(About Cesare Borgia) What cruelties were not the result of his? Who could count all his crimes? Such was the man that Machiavel prefers…

— Frederick the Great

“He did look like an Italian of the worse type, though Vic didn't think he was, and it was an insult to the Italian…

— Patricia Highsmith

“Every Roman was surrounded by slaves. The slave and his psychology flooded ancient Italy, and every Roman became inwardly, and of course unwittingly, a…

— C.G. Jung

There was, it is said, a criminal in Italy who was suffered to make his choice between Guicciardini and the galleys. He chose the…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

Max Askeli was a very courageous, principled man up to a point. He had left Italy before he was thrown in jail by [Francesco]…

— Nat Hentoff

Pertini has interpreted as their best the worst about Italians.

— Indro Montanelli

“Gio Parisi was a good-looking man,if your taste ran to dissolute Roman emperors.”

— Rosie Genova

“We fight to great disadvantage when we fight With those who have nothing to lose. —Guicciardini, Storia d’Italia.”

— Keith G. Laufenberg

“Fellow Italians: stop getting all bent out of shape about Christopher Columbus getting the same treatment as the Confederates. He was a horrible man,…

— Allison Robicelli

“Italy, all the same, had spoiled a great many people; he was even fatuous enough to believe at times that he himself might have…

— Anonymous

I have been fascinated by the Italian way of defending from an early age.

— Matthijs de Ligt

“A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority, from his not having seen what it is expected a…

— Samuel Johnson