Italians Quotes

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

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

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

I have been further enlightened by the conversation and correspondence of some illustrious Italians, whom I would gladly name, were I not afraid of exposing them to danger.

Take care, these Italians, full of failings, are neither you, nor me; they are your neighbors, the ones you meet on the staircase and whom you do not like to greet.

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.

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.

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.

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'.

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

The Italians always made good wine, but you had the impression they were friendly guys in straw hats running family vineyards with slaves or something so that the vino was never more than ten bucks a bottle.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Italians have no sense of the dramatic.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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