Top 100 In Italy Quotes
#1. In Italy, there are so many significant architectural structures in history such as the Pantheon in Rome, or the Duomo.
Tadao Ando
#2. The savings rate in Italy is high, but the markets do not trust Italy even though it's the third largest economy in the European Union and the eighth in the world.
Anibal Cavaco Silva
#3. I'd rather not have an address in France but an address in Italy because I love the country.
Gerard Depardieu
#4. I am like a cartoon strip; I am like Donald Duck; everybody knows me in Italy.
Roberto Benigni
#5. If I spoke Italian, I'd be in Italy in a minute. I love the food, I love the way people live there. I mean, it really is my idea of paradise.
Bonnie Bedelia
#6. As they say in Italy, Italians were eating with a knife and fork when the French were still eating each other. The Medici family had to bring their Tuscan cooks up there so they could make something edible.
Mario Batali
#7. What we do in our group is the opposite of the bad effects of globalization. We produce in Italy and in France and we sell to China, when usually it's the opposite.
Bernard Arnault
#8. In what world is Armani here seventeen?" Cristiano shrugged unapologetically. "They feed us better in Italy.
A&E Kirk
#9. [At Marc Antony's tomb:] Nothing could part us in life, but now in death we are likely to change places, you the Roman lying here in Egyptian soil, and I, helpless woman that I am, being buried in Italy.
Cleopatra
#10. There was in Italy a hidden demand for a boring government which would try to tell the truth in non-political jargon.
Mario Monti
#11. And also, Sergio Leone was considered in Italy a director of category B, not a big director.
Claudia Cardinale
#12. What I love most about New York is that I can walk in the street and nobody is looking at me as if I'm different. In my country and in Italy, you have to choose sides. I was a famous journalist and I was also an immigrant and ultimately I never stopped feeling like I was a guest.
Rula Jebreal
#13. 'Swept Away' is one of my favorite films of my father. I've seen it about 20 times. It's a cult movie in Italy.
Adriano Giannini
#14. I say to the young, be happy that you were born in Italy because of the beauty of the human capital, both masculine and feminine, of this country ... No other country has such human capital.
Rita Levi-Montalcini
#15. Growing up, my grandmother did not want worldly music in the house. Then when I went out to California, I started listening to Spanish music, mostly Mexican music. But were I in Egypt, I would listen to the music of the people, or if I was in Italy, I'd listen to Italian music.
Maya Angelou
#16. Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
Erica Jong
#17. In Europe, where human relations like clothes are supposed to last, one's got to be wearable. In France one has to be interesting, in Italy pleasant, in England one has to fit.
Sybille Bedford
#18. I spent most summers in Italy as a child either in Tuscany or at the Amalfi coast.
Celia Conrad
#19. I learned to speak Italian, somewhat. Definitely enough to get around in Italy. My grandfather always used to swear at my grandmother in Italian.
Jen Lancaster
#20. Modeling, for me, was not fulfilling. I didn't see the point - although I was able to travel a great deal. I lived in Italy, Germany, and Spain, but I wasn't devoted to it.
Tom Welling
#21. I live in Italy. I visit my family in Switzerland.
Ursula Andress
#22. People are very passionate in Italy. If you like something, you like something. If you hate something, you hate something. When you hate something, you are screaming.
Monica Bellucci
#23. It's me, it's my habit to perform live onstage every four, five years. In Italy, it's my habit.
Roberto Benigni
#24. Elsewhere in Italy is the lovely city of Venice, which each year attracts millions of visitors despite the fact that it is basically an enormous open sewer..
Dave Barry
#25. No matter where I've been overseas, the food stinks, except in Italy.
Carmen Electra
#26. I'm very pro-American - my entire family escaped poverty in Italy because they rightly believed in the American dream.
Camille Paglia
#28. Well, the Communists at that moment were very strong in Italy and the Italian Communist Party was the biggest Communist Party outside Soviet Union, there's no doubt about that.
Gianni Agnelli
#29. In Italy the artist is a god. Now if the artist is a god, the scientist is likewise a god.
Josef Albers
#30. English artists are usually entirely ruined by residence in Italy.
John Ruskin
#31. Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.
Roman Coppola
#32. Well, in 1947 ... in Europe and in Italy especially, we thought of America as all-powerful.
Giovanni Agnelli
#33. The Communists at that moment were very strong in Italy, and the Italian Communist Party was the biggest Communist Party outside the Soviet Union.
Giovanni Agnelli
#34. If you want to compete in Italy, the only accepted ways are brute force, or cunning. Like Machiavelli says, "Fronte otra forze." And neither of these two "virtues" is suited to an artist. The artist has to stay intelligent.
Francesco Clemente
#35. In Italy, food is an expression of love. It is how you show those around you that you care for them. Having a love for food means you also have a love for those you are preparing it for and for yourself.
Joe Bastianich
#37. Only in Italy are elections as carnivalesque as they are here. Except, in Ukraine, the carnival is always anarchistic, and more or less uncontrollable.
Andrey Kurkov
#38. We often forget that Spain controlled big parts of Europe, in Italy and the Netherlands. In the Middle Ages, Spain and Portugal were so powerful that they signed a set of treaties literally dividing up the globe between them.
Max Fisher
#39. In Holland and Spain and France, where so many of us come from, people aren't interested in the sex lives of their players. We don't hear these stories - even in Italy where the media is right on top of football.
Dennis Bergkamp
#40. In Italy it's full-on stardom when you're a cyclist - eating in restaurants for free, it's great.
David Millar
#41. I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor.
Laurence Sterne
#42. It's a family that's loaded with grudges and passion. We come from a long line of robbers and highwaymen in Italy, you know. Killers, even.
Nicolas Cage
#43. Politicians in Italy seem to spend so much time giving interviews, they don't have time to make the laws.
Toni Servillo
#44. She was a former Texan - proud, loud and stubborn. But you can't really be a former Texan. You can only move out of Texas. To be a former Texan would be like growing up in Italy, moving out and being formerly Italian.
Jeffrey Michelson
#45. The individual couldn't find any attention in Italy.
Emma Bonino
#46. People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy.
Circular Letter to My Friends in Italy
Mikhail Bakunin
#47. She shook her head, then started fanning herself with her wallet. "Only in Italy.
Jenna Evans Welch
#48. We have Trumpist (ph) tendencies in Europe. Look up Marine Le Pen in France. Look at the Five Star Movement headed by a clown by profession, Beppe Grillo, in Italy.
Lionel Barber
#50. All my ego wants is to be sitting by a lake in Italy. It doesn't want to be backstage, warming up.
Chet Faker
#51. The Italians are very unmusical. If I go to a Protestant church in London or Amsterdam or listen to a black choir, I hear four-part harmony. Italians could never do that. In Italy, we all have to sing the melody because we cannot harmonise.
Gian Carlo Menotti
#52. Hollywood is a wonderful machine for making big movies. In France, we make smaller and more personal films, but if things keep changing, this will disappear. The industry in Italy is practically gone. Cinecitta now is used mostly by filmmakers from others places, like Martin Scorsese.
Ludivine Sagnier
#53. In Italy, I am almost seen as German for my workaholism. Also I am from Milan, the city where people work the hardest. Work, work, work - I am almost German.
Silvio Berlusconi
#54. You better not turn out to be an asshole," she says quietly.
"And you better be done with that guy in Italy," I reply.
Colleen Hoover
#55. The city was in a panic, though a panic in Italy means most people still stand around coffee bars drinking espresso and Prosecco.
Magnus Flyte
#56. When I was a kid, we lived in Italy, which isn't really known for figure skating. I think that's why I excelled so well. I spent a lot of my high school years training.
Meta Golding
#57. They were no more than steaks served up to portly politicians who controlled the personnel departments of the TV stations. (Showgirls in Italy)
Tobias Jones
#58. In Italy, you sometimes get the impression they'd be happier to lose the Ppe than lose their right to drive like maniacs.
Jeremy Clarkson
#59. Wasting time is something that people do or feel all over the world, not just in Italy.
Paolo Sorrentino
#60. At Harvard I learned most uncomfortably that facts are facts. In Italy I learned that facts are the way you look at them.
Sean O'Faolain
#61. I live in Dublin, God knows why. There are greatly more congenial places I could have settled in - Italy, France, Manhattan - but I like the climate here, and Irish light seems to be essential for me and for my writing.
John Banville
#62. We've seen a massive attack on the freedom of the web. Governments are realizing the power of this medium to organize people and they are trying to clamp down across the world, not just in places like China and North Korea; we're seeing bills in the United States, in Italy, all across the world.
Sergey Brin
#63. I do not want "Mormonism" to become popular; I would not, if I could, make it as popular as the Roman Catholic Church is in Italy, or as the Church of England is in England, because the wicked and ungodly would crowd into it in their sins.
Brigham Young
#64. Before Sunrise did very well internationally. It made as much in Italy and Korea as it did here.
Richard Linklater
#65. When in Italy, you should meet Italians.
Isa Miranda
#66. I have a very big family, and that is my number one thing, and we go away for a month to see my cousins in Italy every year, but I need to work.
Richard Rogers
#67. David Moyes, in Italy, would have been sacked three times now.
Gianluca Vialli
#68. Some of the opera houses in Italy had to be burnt down because people could neither see nor hear. They gave up seeing years ago, but they did enjoy the music.
Philip Johnson
#69. After an interval of two and a half centuries, the tradition of mystic illumination renewed itself in Italy and Germany.
James Mark Baldwin
#70. I cook a lot of Italian food. Bucatini Pomodoro is my best: it's a fat spaghetti with tomato, olive oil, and reminds me of getting married in Italy.
Bill Rancic
#71. Like the Devil, the Norway lobster is known by a variety of different names: cigala in Spain, langoustine in France, Dublin Bay Prawn in Ireland. And in Italy, as well as the U.K., scampi.
Tom Parker Bowles
#72. Certainly, in Italy, nobody takes light for granted.
Barbara Steele
#73. When life gives you twists and turns, Chique Yourself Up in Italy!
Barbara Conelli
#74. I would challenge any American cook, regardless of what they've learned from their mom, to operate a restaurant and not have spent any real time in Italy.
Mario Batali
#75. It is very difficult to build contemporary architecture in Italy
Fabio Novembre
#76. There was, it is said, a criminal in Italy who was suffered to make his choice between Guicciardini and the galleys. He chose the history. But the war of Pisa was too much for him; he changed his mind, and went to the oars.
Thomas B. Macaulay
#77. In Italy, especially in '70s and '80s, there was a lot of racism between north and south. And my mom immigrated from the south to the north, from Puglia, the heel of Italy. But what made me feel different was society, not my family.
Riccardo Tisci
#78. On weekends, the U.S. was casual; in Italy the weekend was very formal. I came to understand that weekends are about free time, and that one could wear high quality, tasteful products that weren't so formal.
Diego Della Valle
#79. African American music can't happen in Germany or in Italy or in Mumbai. If America disappeared off the face of the Earth today, the greatest single cultural loss would be blues, jazz, hip-hop, R&B, rock-and-roll.
David Simon
#80. The more fashionable doctors in Italy, began to delegate to slaves the manual attentions they deemed necessary for their patients ... that the art of medicine went to ruin.
Andreas Vesalius
#81. Avarice is not unknown in Italy, and Rinaldo Pazzi had imbibed plenty with his native air. But his natural acquisitiveness and ambition had been whetted in America, where every influence is felt more quickly, including the death of Jehovah and the incumbency of Mammon. When
Thomas Harris
#82. The life in Italy is the life of a wealthy country: consumptions haven't diminished, it's hard to find seats on planes, our restaurants are full of people.
Silvio Berlusconi
#83. In Italy we have not a Common law legal system, we have a stupid one instead!
Carl William Brown
#84. What a waste that we lost Mussolini. He is a first-rate man who would have led our party to power in Italy. [Addressing to a delegation of Italian socialists in Moscow after Mussolini's March on Rome in 1922]
Vladimir Lenin
#85. I would be in Italy working on a film, longing for something simple - like, God, I would just kill to be sitting at a barbecue having a beer right now.
Chris O'Donnell
#86. In treading upon the ashes of dead men in Italy, Egypt - on the banks of the Bosphorus, one almost despairs to think how idle are the dreams and toils of this life, and were it not for the intellectual pleasure of knowing and learning, one would almost be damaged by travel in these historic lands.
William T. Sherman
#87. During my first few weeks in Italy, all my Protestant synapses were zinging in distress, looking for a task. I wanted to take on pleasure like a homework assignment, or a giant science fair project.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#88. I love coming home to Melbourne. The first thing I do is have a coffee. It's just so much better here than anywhere else. It's better than in Italy and I travel a lot. I crave it.
Curtis Stone
#89. I was born in New York, then I went to the UK, then I went to Brazil, then I went to France, then I studied in Italy. My life was always about being confronted with an environment where you had to adapt.
John Elkann
#90. I have family in Italy that my mother keeps in contact with, but I don't because I don't speak Italian.
Pauly D
#91. I do genre films because I like them or because I need the money. I make a star's salary when I do horror because I can still open a movie in Italy or Spain or Germany.
Robert Englund
#92. American? Indian? I don't know what these words mean. In Italy, it is all about blood, family, where you come from. I'm asked where I am from. I'm from nowhere; I always was, but now I am happy knowing it.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#93. We are also rather concerned about our moorhen who went mad while we were in Italy and began to build a nest in a tree ... she walks about in the tree, looking as uneasy yet persevering as a district visitor in a brothel.
Sylvia Townsend Warner
#94. You know how you feel when you get full? Well, I don't get full. I can eat a lot. Mike and I were in Italy for 10 days, and I put on 8 pounds. So in real life, I have to make sure I'm not eating just to eat.
Carrie Underwood
#95. I had a very exciting life in Italy, and I was doing lots of variety shows.
Moran Atias
#96. As I lay asleep in Italy There came a voice from over the Sea, And with great power it forth led me To walk in the visions of Poesy.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#97. I like playing in Italy. It was a challenge I wanted since very early in my career.
Ronaldo
#98. You go to a restaurant in the States and kids have these game boards at the table. You don't see that in Italy or Spain. It's not because they can't afford to buy them, it's because that's not what eating together as a family is about.
Emeril Lagasse
#99. We have no information, not even a tradition, concerning the first migration of the human race into Italy. It was the universal belief of antiquity that in Italy, as well as elsewhere, the first population had sprung from the soil.
Theodor Mommsen
#100. I was offered a free villa in Hollywood, but I said no thank you, I prefer to live in Italy.
Ennio Morricone
