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Quotes and aphorisms about Italy and Italian people<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Quotations on Italy, quotes and aphorisms on Italy, Italians and what the other people think of them by famous authors, part 2, with a free e-book available to download written by Carl William Brown.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Italy’s judicial system is one of most corrupt & inefficient in all Europe. That’s no secret. 9 million pending court cases.<\/span>
\nAn anonymous Venetian<\/span><\/p>\n

In Italy there are a lot of illegal things, since the law is illegal too.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

In Europe the parents are included as with children. All three generations are together. I\u2019m thinking of Italy. You go out on a Sunday afternoon and the whole family is there.<\/span>
\nDana Delany<\/span><\/p>\n

I’ve studied, I’ve traveled the world, but the most important things I’ve learned in Italy making the round of workshops with my grandfather Dante. When it comes to leather, he was a real artist – he could sniff out the best immediately.<\/span>
\nNicola Trussardi<\/span><\/p>\n

Bologna is the best city in Italy for food and has the least number of tourists. With its medieval beauty, it has it all.<\/span>
\nMario Batali<\/span><\/p>\n

Those girls of Italy, take heed of them; they say our French lack language to deny, if they demand; beware of being captives before you serve.<\/span>
\nWilliam Shakespeare<\/span><\/p>\n

Our Italy shines o\u2019er with civil swords: Sextus Pompeius makes his approaches to the port of Rome.<\/span>
\nWilliam Shakespeare<\/span><\/p>\n

Probably the first time I left Italy was to travel by train to Lourdes. I went with my mother and my grandmother – who was a very religious person – so it was a pilgrimage of sorts. I remember it as a very intense, but beautiful experience.<\/span>
\nAndrea Bocelli<\/span><\/p>\n

Colonialism is an idea born in the West that drives Western countries – like France, Italy, Belgium, Great Britain – to occupy countries outside of Europe.<\/span>
\nAhmed Ben Bella<\/span><\/p>\n

No one, no social group, can today avoid the commitment to contribute to the clean up of public finances in order to prevent the financial collapse of Italy. The sacrifices will not be in vain, especially if the economy begins to grow again.<\/span>
\nGiorgio Napolitano<\/span><\/p>\n

When I first discovered in the early 1980s the Italian espresso bars in my trip to Italy, the vision was to re-create that for America – a third place that had not existed before. Starbucks re-created that in America in our own image; a place to go other than home or work. We also created an industry that did not exist: specialty coffee.<\/span>
\nHoward Schultz<\/span><\/p>\n

Near Marseilles in the south of France, bouillabaisse is a cult food. In Toulouse and Carcassonne, the bean-based stew cassoulet is a cult food. Spain has paella and a number of others. Italy has so many, its cuisine is practically defined by them.<\/span>
\nNathan Myhrvold<\/span><\/p>\n

I spent a college semester in a small town in Italy – and that is where I truly tasted food for the first time.<\/span>
\nAlton Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve never been much of a European traveler. London once on a book tour, and Italy because that\u2019s where Ferraris are from. That’s about it.<\/span>
\nJohn Ridley<\/span><\/p>\n

The Italians may be clever and quick-witted but they are not intellectuals. They lack wanderlust, indeed, most of them lack intellectual curiosity in every shape and form.<\/span>
\nGeorge Mikes<\/span><\/p>\n

Capri on the Amalfi Coast in Italy is my ultimate holiday destination.<\/span>
\nVidal Sassoon<\/span><\/p>\n

In Italy, the country where fascism was born, we have a particular relation with the Holocaust, but as a turning point in history it belongs to everybody in the world. It is a part of humanity.<\/span>
\nRoberto Benigni<\/span><\/p>\n

Italy is one of the world leading country of bureaucracy and stupidity. <\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

I am proud to be Italian because I was born in Italy, I grew up in Italy, I went to school in Italy and I have worked in Italy. I\u2019m Italian.<\/span>
\nMario Balotelli<\/span><\/p>\n

We\u2019ve 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\u2019re seeing bills in the United States, in Italy, all across the world.<\/span>
\nSergey Brin<\/span><\/p>\n

The two great cultural and political currents of Italy have always only been concerned with the masses.<\/span>
\nEmma Bonino<\/span><\/p>\n

In the literature of France Moli\u00e8re 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.<\/span>
\nLytton Strachey<\/span><\/p>\n

Let the Volsces plough Rome and harrow Italy; I’ll never be such a gosling to obey instinct, but stand as if a man were author of himself and knew no other kin.<\/span>
\nWilliam Shakespeare<\/span><\/p>\n

You must not so far prefer her fore ours of Italy.<\/span>
\nWilliam Shakespeare<\/span><\/p>\n

In America, if you succeed, you don\u2019t have to apologize. In Italy, success is envied, and envy is the worst, worst, worst thing in the world. It’s easy for me to say because I have had more than <\/span>
\nmany others, but at the end of the day, I have never envied anyone. I wish to no one that they waste their time envying anyone else.<\/span>
\nLapo Elkann<\/span><\/p>\n

It is rather unusual for Italy to be at the forefront of pro-market initiatives.<\/span>
\nMario Monti<\/span><\/p>\n

In Italy there are a lot of illegal or almost illegal things, only stupidity is perfectly legal.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

To this day the Arab influence is evident in southern Italy, northern Africa and, above all, in Spain.<\/span>
\nCarroll Quigley<\/span><\/p>\n

Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There\u2019s no looking at a building here after seeing Italy.<\/span>
\nFanny Burney<\/span><\/p>\n

‘Made in Italy’ is from the tycoons of the ’80s, not me. It is people who represent an Italy which I don’t belong to and I don’t feel a part of.<\/span>
\nLapo Elkann<\/span><\/p>\n

England is a paradise for women, and hell for horses: Italy a paradise for horses, hell for women, as the diverb goes.<\/span>
\nRobert Burton<\/span><\/p>\n

Italy advocates the adoption of a legal instrument on cultural diversity, guaranteeing every country the protection of its own historical identity and the uniqueness of its physical and intangible cultural heritage.<\/span>
\nCarlo Azeglio Ciampi<\/span><\/p>\n

Everything in Italy that is particularly elegant and grand borders upon insanity and absurdity or at least is reminiscent of childhood.<\/span>
\nAlexander Herzen<\/span><\/p>\n

Before Sunrise did very well internationally. It made as much in Italy and Korea as it did here.<\/span>
\nRichard Linklater<\/span><\/p>\n

Real socialism is inside man. It wasn\u2019t born with Marx. It was in the communes of Italy in the Middle Ages. You can\u2019t say it is finished.<\/span>
\nDario Fo<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nJoe Bastianich<\/span><\/p>\n

If you stop for lunch elsewhere in the world, you tend to eat a sandwich, and a bad one. Italy is unique for the style of life. I think everyone envies it a bit.<\/span>
\nLapo Elkann<\/span><\/p>\n

What happened in the late Fifties, early Sixties in French cinema was a fantastic revolution. I was in Italy, but completely in love with the nouvelle vague movement, and directors like Godard, Truffaut, Demy. ‘The Dreamers’ was a total homage to cinema and that love for it.<\/span>
\nBernardo Bertolucci<\/span><\/p>\n

I couldn\u2019t settle in Italy – it was like living in a foreign country.<\/span>
\nIan Rush<\/span><\/p>\n

I am not a genius, I am just a humble servant of it and having personally known Zack in Italy (A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority. Samuel Johnson) I can witness that he is a guy of that kind of stuff.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s me, it’s my habit to perform live onstage every four, five years. In Italy, it\u2019s my habit.<\/span>
\nRoberto Benigni<\/span><\/p>\n

As a matter of fact, I’ve been to Italy many times before I met my husband, which he can’t even imagine that I could possibly know anything about Italian food. But, you know, Italian food’s really basic, and there’s so many different variations on it that what my husband did is he broke it down for me.<\/span>
\nDebi Mazar<\/span><\/p>\n

My family is a Jewish Iranian family, but I was born in Turkey and raised in Italy. So it\u2019s a very mixed background.<\/span>
\nNouriel Roubini<\/span><\/p>\n

I just went off for two months traveling around Europe on a motorcycle and pretty much turned my phone off. I did 5,000 miles with my dad. We went through Holland, Germany, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Montenegro, Italy… and then I did Spain and France by myself.<\/span>
\nMichael Fassbender<\/span><\/p>\n

I do quite like sightseeing. I like churches, museums, galleries and all that stuff. I love the smell of a church in Italy or the smell of an old greasy spoon somewhere. I like markets and little funny shops in the backstreets of Florence.<\/span>
\nAshley Jensen<\/span><\/p>\n

I also had this mistaken dream, fantasy really – perhaps because I\u2019m good at languages – of being able in both Italy and France to become someone else through my fluency in the language.<\/span>
\nHarry Mathews<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019m involved with a baroque opera company here in Italy. I write some of their booklet material, comments on operas. I also write for some baroque opera festivals because this music is my real passion.<\/span>
\nDonna Leon<\/span><\/p>\n

The value of “Made in Italy” must necessarily be up-to-date. This is the philosophy that Italia Independent has embraced. We decided from the outset to do away with stereotypes and attune ourselves to the extreme pace, to the incessant metamorphoses of the globalized world.<\/span>
\nLapo Elkann<\/span><\/p>\n

I think I went to Italy initially for the art, architecture, food and history, but I stayed there because of the people in Cortona.<\/span>
\nFrances Mayes<\/span><\/p>\n

To be a true philosopher you must study stupidity a lot, that\u2019s why, as Doctor Samuel Johnson used to say, a man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority. <\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

If I go to Germany, I learn something in addition. The German television is very precise and respectable. One has never stress. In Italy it is more dynamic. But I amuse myself madly in both countries.<\/span>
\nMichelle Hunziker<\/span><\/p>\n

My most memorable recognition story was in Venice, Italy. My fiance and I were renting a car, and I was recognized by the person standing behind me by my voice. I thought that was hysterical!<\/span>
\nErica Cerra<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve backpacked to countries like Italy and Turkey and observed beautiful scenery, but then I realized that beauty was always very close to me. It is here in Belitung Island, where the rivers, beaches and the terrain captivate my attention most.<\/span>
\nAndrea Hirata<\/span><\/p>\n

I love the simplicity, the ingredients, the culture, the history and the seasonality of Italian cuisine. In Italy people do not travel. They cook the way grandma did, using fresh ingredients and what is available in season.<\/span>
\nAnne Burrell<\/span><\/p>\n

The reality is that I spent years in the factories in Italy when I first set up Jimmy Choo. Today, everyone who has a job at Jimmy Choo, I\u2019ve done their job – right down to the cleaner.<\/span>
\nTamara Mellon<\/span><\/p>\n

In Italy, the Milanese are well organized but follow bourgeois taste. They adhere to certain codes of elegance, but not to individualism.<\/span>
\nChristian Lacroix<\/span><\/p>\n

There\u2019s no big splashy renaissance in Italian films. We have good young actors and directors. What we lack are screenwriters. It\u2019s hard to write about Italy.<\/span>
\nValeria Golino<\/span><\/p>\n

To see how many Italians are going out of Italy, the sort of exodus, a great generation leaving my country, I think is the worst nightmare for me as prime minister but also for the country, of course.<\/span>
\nEnrico Letta<\/span><\/p>\n

I was in Italy in 1992 working on magazine articles when I got a call from the Italian travel commission. They asked, would I mind being an escort for an older woman? I told them I don\u2019t do that kind of work, but then they said it was Julia Child, and I said I’d be right there.<\/span>
\nBob Spitz<\/span><\/p>\n

If I spoke Italian, I\u2019d 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.<\/span>
\nBonnie Bedelia<\/span><\/p>\n

Your Italy contains none so accomplish\u2019d a courtier to convince the honour of my mistress.<\/span>
\nWilliam Shakespeare<\/span><\/p>\n

Sitting sadly hearing us praise our loves of Italy for beauty that made barren the swell\u2019d boast of him that best could speak<\/span>
\nWilliam Shakespeare<\/span><\/p>\n

Since I\u2019ve been in an actor, I\u2019ve lived in Italy, in London, in Stockholm – I had the fortune of working in different locations. If you live some place long enough, you acquire slightly different systems of thought, and it influences your outlook on life. I just slowly adapted the way I speak.<\/span>
\nMatthew Settle<\/span><\/p>\n

I love to travel the world. My husband and I always travel and everywhere we go I\u2019ve been to Italy, of course London, Ireland, and you just receive so much love.<\/span>
\nTamera Mowry<\/span><\/p>\n

I got hooked on espresso when I visited Italy at 18, but these days I prefer a “flat white.” It\u2019s like a small latte with less milk – they’re popular in Australia.<\/span>
\nHugh Jackman<\/span><\/p>\n

We, unlike Nazi Germany or Mussolini\u2019s 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.<\/span>
\nRobert Byrd<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019m definitely looking forward to the day when I stop working – if I ever stop working. I like the idea of keeling over in my tomato vines in Sardinia or northern Italy.<\/span>
\nAnthony Bourdain<\/span><\/p>\n

I would say that Juventus is a myth not only in Italy, because it\u2019s the most loved team in Italy, but also around the world. And it has been in my family since birth.<\/span>
\nLapo Elkann<\/span><\/p>\n

We had extremely democratic town councils in medieval Italy which knew the value of working together, and every now and then, down the centuries, this spirit returns.<\/span>
\nDario Fo<\/span><\/p>\n

Since Italy is the land of bureaucratic and political nonsense, it tries to make up for the lost chances through a complex system of confused laws and logical stupidity.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

The thing about Hemingway that people forget is that all the stuff he did was at a time where people weren\u2019t 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.<\/span>
\nClive Owen<\/span><\/p>\n

In Italy it\u2019s full-on stardom when you’re a cyclist – eating in restaurants for free, it’s great.<\/span>
\nDavid Millar<\/span><\/p>\n

I have never let down Italy, and I never will. I love my country, and I owe a lot to my country, and in that sense, whatever I can and will be able to do for my country, I will do.<\/span>
\nLapo Elkann<\/span><\/p>\n

In Italy the artist is a god. Now if the artist is a god, the scientist is likewise a god.<\/span>
\nJosef Albers<\/span><\/p>\n

I have had the problem of seeing my male model go to Italy and… stay there.<\/span>
\nCamille Claudel<\/span><\/p>\n

Yes. I do about 70 shows a year, in the past year I\u2019ve been to Italy, Australia, Japan, China, just about everywhere. I do it because I love singing. The money is a bonus.<\/span>
\nKatherine Jenkins<\/span><\/p>\n

Italy is full of historical buildings. And Europe holds a great history of philosophy from Greece until today. I read all those books and see these buildings, and I think of where I stand when I design my architecture.<\/span>
\nTadao Ando<\/span><\/p>\n

Italy is doomed to disappear, it is too stupid to survive! <\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

If you\u2019ve got a plot the size of a car or a tiny yard in Italy, you’re going to be growing tomatoes and basil and celery and carrots, and everybody is still connected to the land.<\/span>
\nFrances Mayes<\/span><\/p>\n

Tiles, the best furniture, fabrics, bath fixtures, bronze – just leaf through any design magazine and you immediately understand they\u2019re all ‘Made in Italy.’ We have the premier opera house in the world, La Scala, and behind the Nobel given to CERN is the research of many Italians.<\/span>
\nLapo Elkann<\/span><\/p>\n

Everything is global now. It\u2019s not London, it\u2019s not Spain, it\u2019s not Italy – everything is everywhere. So you have to be everywhere, I guess.<\/span>
\nManolo Blahnik<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nJohn Banville<\/span><\/p>\n

I live in Italy. I visit my family in Switzerland.<\/span>
\nUrsula Andress<\/span><\/p>\n

It was the greatest thing in the world getting fat. Every meal out was an event. Or we’d go to Italy and we’d have pasta, truffles, and dessert and then plan the next incredible meal. It was a happy-go-lucky time. I never had so much fun.<\/span>
\nKirstie Alley<\/span><\/p>\n

I had a very tough childhood. I came here from Italy in the ’70s and didn\u2019t 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.<\/span>
\nGiada De Laurentiis<\/span><\/p>\n

I am certain that most Germans have instinctive liking for Italy, just as Italians admire Germans for their many qualities.<\/span>
\nMario Monti<\/span><\/p>\n

Until 1914 I loved to travel; I often went to Italy and once spent a few months in India. Since then I have almost entirely abandoned travelling, and I have not been outside of Switzerland for over ten years.<\/span>
\nHerman Hesse<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nChris O’Donnell<\/span><\/p>\n

We arrived in Argentina with a lot of injured players, including our goalkeeper. Also we were unlucky to be drawn in the same group as the two tournament favourites Italy and Argentina.<\/span>
\nMichel Platini<\/span><\/p>\n

When I retired, at that time I had a lot of proposals to play in Europe, England, Italy, Spain, Mexico. But I said no, after 18 years I want to rest, because I want to retire.<\/span>
\nPele<\/span><\/p>\n

I would love to take a road trip across Italy in an Aston Martin S Coupe.<\/span>
\nEsha Gupta<\/span><\/p>\n

Lump the whole thing! Say that the Creator made Italy from designs by Michael Angelo!<\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nCat Cora<\/span><\/p>\n

You have to remember that Italy is second to none, in fact, if Germany has more than 3,500 brothels, Italy has the Vatican! <\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

The individual couldn\u2019t find any attention in Italy.<\/span>
\nEmma Bonino<\/span><\/p>\n

When we\u2019ve finished the current tour I’m going to go back to Italy and see if I can do some more writing.<\/span>
\nGerry Mulligan<\/span><\/p>\n

My parents immigrated from Italy and spent 40 days and 40 stinking nights on a boat so we didn\u2019t have to eat things like gizzards.<\/span>
\nNadia Giosia<\/span><\/p>\n

My grandmother used to cook for eight every day – sitting down lunches and dinner, the way you do it in Italy, you sit down. And when my parents could afford their own place, I went with them but still my mother used to work but used to come back from work to cook lunch for my father, come back from work, cook dinner for my father and me.<\/span>
\nCarrie Ann Inaba<\/span><\/p>\n

I write in English. My first album came out in Italy, and I toured and did gigs.<\/span>
\nViolante Placido<\/span><\/p>\n

The battle of the euro is being fought right now in Spain and Italy. The future of the euro is at stake in the next weeks.<\/span>
\nLuis de Guindos<\/span><\/p>\n

Italy to me is like the mean mother. Whatever I do, it\u2019s never good enough. People say I\u2019m the queen of Cannes, but in Italy I get turned down for work.<\/span>
\nAsia Argento<\/span><\/p>\n

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Quotes on Italy 2<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Quotes on Italy 3<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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