Italy
- "Mi consenta" ("Allow me") – said by Silvio Berlusconi
- "CAPRA IGNORANTE !!" ("You ignorant goat!") – said by Vittorio Sgarbi
- "Culona inchiavabile" ("Unfuckable lard ass") - said by Silvio Berlusconi about Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel
- "Il potere logora chi non ce l'ha" ("Power tires only those who do not have it")- said by Giulio Andreotti
- "Riconosco i miei limiti ma non vivo in un mondo di giganti" ("I recognize my limits but when I look around I realise I am not living exactly in a world of giants.")- said by Giulio Andreotti
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Famous quotes containing the word italy:
“I think sometimes that it is almost a pity to enjoy Italy as much as I do, because the acuteness of my sensations makes them rather exhausting; but when I see the stupid Italians I have met here, completely insensitive to their surroundings, and ignorant of the treasures of art and history among which they have grown up, I begin to think it is better to be an American, and bring to it all a mind and eye unblunted by custom.”
—Edith Wharton (1862–1937)
“Lump the whole thing! Say that the Creator made Italy from designs by Michael Angelo!”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed—they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!”
—Orson Welles (1915–84)