Italy Quotes

The Vatican is a dagger in the heart of Italy.
Thomas Paine

Heart, Dagger, Vatican

Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.
Bertrand Russell

Love, Happy, Person

A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority.
Samuel Johnson

There is something majestic in the bad taste of Italy.
E. M. Forster

Bad, Taste, Majestic

Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
Erica Jong

Country, America, Church

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

Alone, Live, Single

But Italy is not an intellectual country. On the subway in Tokyo everybody reads. In Italy, they don't. Don't evaluate Italy from the fact that it produced Raphael and Michelangelo.
Umberto Eco

Country, Fact, Everybody

Put yourself in the position of an up-and-coming artist living in early-sixteenth-century Italy. Now imagine trying to distinguish yourself from the other artists living in your town: Michelangelo, Raphael, Leonardo, or Titian. Is it any wonder that the Italian High Renaissance lasted only 30 years?
Jerry Saltz

Yourself, Trying, Living

I got hooked on espresso when I visited Italy at 18, but these days I prefer a 'flat white.' It's like a small latte with less milk - they're popular in Australia.
Hugh Jackman

Small, Days, Less

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

Family, Game, Together

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 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

Love, Home, Travel

In Italy they take cheap cloth and make it look expensive, but I take expensive cloth and make it look cheap. They just don't understand.
Vivienne Westwood

Understand, Cheap, Expensive

We, unlike Nazi Germany or Mussolini's Italy, have never stopped being a nation of laws, not of men. But witness how men with motives and a majority can manipulate law to cruel and unjust ends.
Robert Byrd

Men, Law, Nation

Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
Erica Jong

Remember, Used, Worth

If countries were people, England and France would be old men. Italy would be dead. Compared with them, America is in its 20s.
will.i.am

Men, America, Old

Ireland, Italy and Brazil are the most musical places for me. They're extremely musical cultures and anything you pitch they basically catch.
James Taylor

Places, Musical, Catch

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

Family, Long, Passion

The thing about Hemingway that people forget is that all the stuff he did was at a time where people weren't traveling that much. At 19 he travels to Italy. He goes to the Spanish Civil War. He goes to China, he goes to Africa so at that time to travel that much is really incredible.
Clive Owen

Time, War, Travel

I had a very tough childhood. I came here from Italy in the '70s and didn't speak a word of English, so the kids at school tormented me. Truly, it was horrifying the names they called me, and the teachers never really did a thing to stop it.
Giada De Laurentiis

School, Tough, Here

Bologna is the best city in Italy for food and has the least number of tourists. With its medieval beauty, it has it all.
Mario Batali

Beauty, Best, Food

I spent a college semester in a small town in Italy - and that is where I truly tasted food for the first time.
Alton Brown

Time, Food, Small

No matter where I've been overseas, the food stinks, except in Italy.
Carmen Electra

Food, Matter, Except

Italy has changed. But Rome is Rome.
Robert De Niro

Capri on the Amalfi Coast in Italy is my ultimate holiday destination.
Vidal Sassoon

Holiday, Ultimate, Coast

In the literature of France Moliere occupies the same kind of position as Cervantes in that of Spain, Dante in that of Italy, and Shakespeare in that of England. His glory is more than national - it is universal.
Lytton Strachey

Same, Literature, National

Yes. I do about 70 shows a year, in the past year I've been to Italy, Australia, Japan, China, just about everywhere. I do it because I love singing. The money is a bonus.
Katherine Jenkins

Love, Money, Past

Italy is a divided country without a center.
Christian Lacroix

Country, Divided, Center

The type of cuisine I do, especially after being on 'Iron Chef' for several years, is a lot of global cuisine. My strength has always been Mediterranean cuisine across the board from Morocco, Spain, Italy, Greece, France, but I think now I'm doing a lot of very different cuisines all the time.
Cat Cora

Time, Strength, Different

Everything is global now. It's not London, it's not Spain, it's not Italy - everything is everywhere. So you have to be everywhere, I guess.
Manolo Blahnik

London, Guess, Global

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