(113 quotes found)
“Well, I'm half Italian, so last year on warped tour i got this really good tan and I was like, bummer.”
Gerard Way
“In Italian, a belladonna is a beautiful lady; in English, it's a deadly poison.”
Ambrose Bierce
“A Frenchwoman, when double-crossed, will kill her rival; the Italian woman would rather kill her deceitful lover; the Englishwoman simply breaks off relations-but they all will console themselves with another man.”
Charles Boyer
“I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men and German to my horse.”
Charles V
“Italian wine was something rough and red that came in a straw-covered flask with a candle stuck in its neck, [the empty bottle] was an unmistakable badge of sophomore sophistication.”
Nancy Harmon Jenkins
“He looked like an Italian, was dressed like an Englishman, and had the independent air of an American--a combination which caused sundry pairs of feminine eyes to look approvingly after him, and sundry dandies in black velvet suits, with rose-colored neckties, buff gloves, and orange flowers in their buttonholes, to shrug their shoulders, and then envy him his inches.”
Louisa May Alcott
“The Italians have voices like peacocks - German gives me a cold in the head - and Russian is nothing but sneezing”
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
“There is an Italian proverb which saith, From my enemy let me defend myself; but from a pretensed friend Lord deliver me”
Elizabeth I
“Patterned after an Italian Renaissance palace, it is 88 times as large and one millionth as valuable to the continuation of man. that Pentagon of traveling salesmen.”
Norman Mailer
“If your governor don't prove a alleybi, he'll be what the Italians call reg'larly flummoxed”
Charles Dickens
