Italians Quotes

Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one.
Pope John XXIII

Family, Women, Three

Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land.
E. M. Forster

Love, Understand, Land

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, you could become successful.
Francis Ford Coppola

Successful, Real, Hard

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 not all Italians are gangsters.
Martin Scorsese

Another, Film, Maybe

Italians know about human nature - they understand human nature perhaps better than anyone else does. They know that people are weak and greedy and lazy and dishonest and they just try to make the best of it; to work around it.
Donna Leon

Work, Nature, Best

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

Family, Bring, Eating

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 the attitudes of Italians.
Elton John

Life, Love, History

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 them in the same way they have a lot of things to learn from English football.
Jose Mourinho

Football, Perfect, Play

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 it's late.
Alexander McQueen

Design, Late, Cause

I am disgusted by the anti-Semitism of many Italians, of many Europeans.
Oriana Fallaci

Disgusted, Europeans

The lucky thing was that I was Italian; when the other Italians saw me fight back, they came to my defence.
Gregory Corso

Fight, Lucky, Italian

Second-generation Hispanics marry non-Hispanics at a higher rate than second-generation Irish or Italians. Second-generation Hispanics' English language capability rates are higher than previous immigrant groups'.
Jeb Bush

Language, Irish, English

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 in the world and nothing can really offend them. That's the way I think true Sicilians are.
Vinny Guadagnino

Family, True, Nothing

The English say, Yours Truly, and mean it. The Italians say, I kiss your feet, and mean, I kick your head.
Wilfred Owen

Mean, Kiss, Head

I am certain that most Germans have instinctive liking for Italy, just as Italians admire Germans for their many qualities.
Mario Monti

Admire, Liking, Qualities

Most correspondents came from the former colonial powers - there were British, French, and a lot of Italians, because there were a lot of Italian communities there. And of course there were a lot of Russians.
Ryszard Kapuscinski

British, Former, Italian

No, the people standing before Christ and Pilate during the judgment scene do not condemn an entire race for the death of Christ anymore than the actions of Mussolini condemn all Italians, or the heinous crimes of Stalin condemn all Russians.
Jim Caviezel

Death, Before, Christ

Some Italians are geniuses, but you have to find a balance.
Alain Prost

Find, Balance, Geniuses

I think that we must come together progressively, with the British, the Germans, the Spanish, the Italians and with the new members of the European Union, we must make an effort to forge closer links.
Jean-Pierre Raffarin

Together, Effort, Union

I know Italians and I like them. A lot of my father's best friends were Italians.
Kirk Douglas

Best, Father, Friends

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 that which is speculation and that which is fact.
Donna Leon

Care, Between, Fact

Italians tend to be less rigidly moral and law-abiding than do Anglo-Saxons. They also have a profound suspicion of the state and most of its agencies.
Donna Leon

Moral, Less, State

In America they like my spicy TV alter ego, probably because there were a lot of Italians and Hispanics in the country, but the real L.A. life is a hard-working one.
Bruno Tonioli

Life, Real, Ego

The Italians are very strong defensively. They showed in Euro 2000 how good defensively they are.
Alan Hansen

Good, Strong, Euro

People have an image of Italians. When I go somewhere in the world, I don't care where it is, when they look at me it's not about my intelligence. It's who can I beat up.
Danny Aiello

Care, Image, Beat

Look, people have an image of Italians. When I go somewhere in the world, I don't care where it is, when they look at me it's not about my intelligence. It's who can I beat up.
Danny Aiello

Care, Image, Beat

Italians have no sense of the dramatic.
Jose Carreras

Sense, Dramatic

Everybody says it: black, white; everybody calls me a legend. Italians, Jews. Everybody.
Roberto Duran

Black, Everybody, White

Italians can not beat us, but we can certainly lose against them.
Johan Cruijff

Lose, Against, Beat

It's not just we Italians who are caught up in the difficulty.
Giorgio Napolitano

Caught, Difficulty

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