Italian History Quotes

Italy is a geographical concept.

My wife is Italian, and I lived there for six years.

Italy should be great, respected, and feared.

Mussolini was the greatest political leader of the century.

Italy is a geographical expression.

I believe in the Italy of municipalities, of the Renaissance, not in Mussolini's centralization.

Italy - I love the late-night culture, hanging around the square at midnight with everyone, catching up and having a drink.

Virginia is a good start for Italy.

… the faithless and most vile Lombard people … whose members have certainly brought forth the lepers.

Italians had been accustomed for centuries to identify government and state with personal and foreign domination. They were slow to adapt themselves to the new fact--a national state and government.

I saw Mussolini tirelessly contemplate a parade of thousands of young men.

Italy would by saved only if Mussolini went crazy and crawled on all fours..

No Roman ever was able to say, 'I dined last night with the Borgias'.

Who can ever be alone for a moment in Italy? Every stone has a voice, every grain of dust seems instinct with spirit from the Past, every step recalls some line, some legend of long-neglected lore.

I like Italy. I was always at home there, it's a marvelous place to become invisible. Nobody bothers you and nobody is interested in you and I find that very good for work.

I like playing in Italy. It was a challenge I wanted since very early in my career.

At public ceremonies, moreover, mothers whose sons were conscripted for the business of fighting were lined up and “invited” to kiss the cannon already used or to be used in the execution of Italy’s imperial program in Ethiopia.

Layer upon layer, Italy's storied past unfolds in Robert Kaster's captivating journey along the venerable Queen of Roads. I cannot imagine a more perfect guide to such a rich trove of ancient and modern memories. Illuminating, erudite, entertaining, and evocative.

Certainly, in Italy, nobody takes light for granted.

I'm Italian.

I love Italy. I always said that some part of me is Italian since I moved to Milano.

I was married to an Italian, and my son was born there. I've got lots of connections there, and I lived in the north, in the country about an hour outside of Milan, for quite a few years. I speak fluent Italian.

Mussolini never killed anyone. Mussolini used to send people on vacation in internal exile.

Obviously the government of [Mussolini's] time, out of fear that German power might lead to complete victory, preferred to ally itself with Hitler's Germany rather than opposing it. The racial laws were the worst fault of Mussolini as a leader, who in so many other ways did well.

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.