Top 282 Italians Quotes & Sayings

You find Jews, Irish, and Italians in every orchestra.

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

Italians have no sense of the dramatic.

All Italians speak Spanish without studying.

When in Italy, you should meet Italians.

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.

It is not impossible to rule Italians, but it would be useless.

Italians first!

Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals

I repeat, whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all.

Pertini has interpreted as their best the worst about Italians.

All Italians are plunderers.

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

Abstract paintings must be as real as those created by the 16th century Italians.

The Italians seem to have a better attitude with kids and the food is great!

I will be the defense attorney for all Italians.

Italy is not technically part of the Third World, but no one has told the Italians.

If saying 'Italians first' is xenophobic, then I don't know what to say.

The Italians are the most civilized people. And they're very warm. Basically, they're Jews with great architecture.

The Italians . . . you can't find one who is honest.

The Italians are wise before the deede, the Germanes in the deede, the French after the deede. [The Italians are wise before the deed, the Germens in the deed, the French after the deed.]

The Italians - they cannot talk without shaking the hands. And I am like that, I'm from Brazil as well.

She would have colored gracefully with embarrassment had she not possessed the complexion of one of those “heathen Italians,” as her mother said, who never colored, gracefully or otherwise. (Convincing her mother that Christianity had, to all intents and purposes, originated with the Italians, thus making them the exact opposite of heathen, was a waste of time and breath.)

Maybe Italians are a bit less restrained: they can be less rigid and sometimes they stray a little in their ways of dressing for work, which is something that is always linked to the formal suit. What we like of both Italians and the British is that they love to dress well. In the past ten years we have witnessed a revolution in the menswear market.

Italians can't win the game against you, but you can lose the game against the Italians.

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

Italians' relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.

The Italians always know that I'm not Italian.

Italians allow anything in their cooking.

The Italians have had 2,000 years to fix up the Forum and just look at the place!

All Italians got a refrigerator in the garage. That's what we do.

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

I've got nothing to teach to the Italians - I love playing in this league.

Italians love sun, sin, and spaghetti.

If you score against the Italians you deserve a goal.

My father bought a house in Panther Hollow. We were the first Italians in the neighborhood.

The Italians say it is not necessary to be a stag; but we ought not to be a tortoise.

The Italians have long known what makes a livable town or city.

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

Eat more like the French. Or the Japanese. Or the Italians. Or the Greeks.

I'm sick of seeing the immigrants in the hotels and the Italians who sleep in cars. This is the racist country.

When the Italians play the Germans it'll be fascinating. Mightn't be very good football but it'll be great psychology.

Italians have famously low levels of trust in their government, and a tradition of medical hoaxes.

One thing about Italians is you can't let them in your head. They're inquisitive. The English and Germans are a dog tribe; the Italians are cats. They're very helpful, but it's in their own rhythm, their own way, and it can drive you crazy.

I just want to remind everybody that it's Columbus Day. That all those of you that know Italians and like Italians are the people that might venture on to a ship and travel to explore and find new lands, this is your day. It's not St. Patty's Day. That's a different day entirely.

I am damnably sick of Italy, Italian and Italians, outrageously, illogically sick.... I hate to think that Italians ever did anything in the way of art.... What did they do but illustrate a page or so of the New Testament! They themselves think they have a monopoly in the line. I am dead tired of their bello and bellezza.

Italians work hard physically and tactically.

We will go to Europe to change the rules that have impoverished Italians.

I was glad to see Italy win. All the guys on the team were Italians.

We Italians are always criticising ourselves.

The Italians are said to be noisy and to gesticulate, but that is a libel dreamed up by the English.

I come from a family of Catholic Italians, and that will always be in my blood.

We must give Italians a sense of race.

Italians cannot vote on international treaties.

Italians stay so true to their classic silhouettes and the things that they've always done.

I have come not to make war on the Italians, but to aid the Italians against Rome.

Italians think with their heads.

We Italians respect food and ingredients more than anyone else.

The Italians are hoping for an Italian victory.

Just give the Italians a chance for drama and they take it with both hands.