Quotes About Italy

The Italians are fond of red clothes, peacock plumes, and embroidery; and I remember one rainy morning in the city of Palermo, the street was ablaze with scarlet umbrellas.

I also want to go to an Italian island and do cuisine properly with some famous Italian chef and, like, his mother.

I went to the Conservatory of Music in school in Rome.

Sicily could only be an island, less by the caprice of nature than by her own insolence. As though she might have quit Italy had she not already been born separate from it.

The Creator made Italy with designs by Michelangelo.

in Italy, almost at every step, history and poetry add to the graces of nature, sweeten the memory of the past, and seem to preserve it in eternal youth.

Our program is simple: we wish to govern Italy. They ask us for programs but there are already too many. It is not programs that are wanting for the salvation of Italy but men and will power.

As his special train hauled into Rome's suburbs the next afternoon, May 3, he marshalled his private staff and warned them sternly not to burst out laughing at the sight of a diminutive figure kneeling on the platform, weighed down with gold braid: for that was the King of Italy, and he was not kneeling – that was his full height.

There's always room for giallo

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.

In Italy the artist is a god. Now if the artist is a god, the scientist is likewise a god.

In the 1970s, British food was beginning to get good, whereas in France it was just starting its long, sad decline. My most memorable meals, however, have been in Italy.

Italy has great food and Barcelona has great energy.

Health care amounts to l4% of our GNP-a lot of money. It is the size of the Italian economy. And the president turned it over to his wife.

I think I went to Italy initially for the art, architecture, food and history, but I stayed there because of the people in Cortona.

Italy hasn't had a government since Mussolini.

Italy is definitely where I feel most at home, or alternatively, living in total wilderness, in the bush in Australia.

Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.

Italy is the home of art and swindling; home of religion and moral rottenness

In recent times Italy have been in a World Cup final every 12 years and I hope to still be there in 2018.

A bomb fell on Italy. It slid off!

The brightest light, the light of Italy, the purest sky of Scandinavia in the month of June is only a half-light when one compares it to the light of childhood. Even the nights were blue.

I wanted to go to Italy because I was sad because my heart was broken, and I thought Italy would make me happy again because everything I would eat there would be delicious.

It is fate that I am here,' George persisted, 'but you can call it Italy if it makes you less unhappy.