Quotes of Italian - somelinesforyou

“ Another such victory over the Romans, and we are undone. ”

- Pyrrhus

“ I am a Roman citizen. ”

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

“ When you are at Rome, live as Romans live. ”

- Joseph Addison

“ I think the Romans call it Stoicism. ”

- Joseph Addison

“ Above any Greek or Roman name. ”

- John Dryden

“ This was the noblest Roman of them all. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Would that the Roman people had a single neck ”

- Caligula

“ The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that. ”

- Robert Burns

“ Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million. ”

- Jean Jacques Rousseau

“ When in Rome, live as the Romans do; when elsewhere, live as they live elsewhere. ”

- Saint Ambrose

“ I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary. ”

- Thomas Jefferson

“ My veins are filled, once a week with a Neapolitan carpet cleaner distilled from the Adriatic and I am as bald as an egg. However I still get around and am mean to cats. ”

- John Cheever

“ Evil report, like the Italian stiletto, is an assassin's weapon. ”

- Francoise d’Aubigne Maintenon

“ If you are at Rome live in the Roman style; if you are elsewhere live as they live elsewhere. ”

- Saint Ambrose

“ I had rather be a toad and live upon the vapor of a dungeon than keep a corner in the thing I love for others' uses. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ When you are at Rome live in the Roman style; when you are elsewhere live as they live elsewhere. ”

- Saint Ambrose

“ When in Rome, do as Rome does. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom. ”

- Titus Livius

“ Another such victory over the Romans and we are undone. ”

- Plutarch

“ As you know, I am neither Roman Catholic, Protestant Episcopalian, nor Presbyterian, nor am I an Irishman. ”

- John Bright

“ I majored in Chinese. I was never really good at Chinese but I really, really benefited from having been exposed to Asian philosophy early in my life. ”

- Martha Beck

“ It's like the Roman Empire. Wasn't everybody running around just covered with syphilis? And then it was destroyed by the volcano. ”

- Joan Collins

“ The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend. ”

- Katharine Hepburn

“ The prelude to Tristan and Isolde reminds me of the Italian painting of the martyr whose intestines are slowly being unwound from his body on a reel. ”

- Eduard Hanslick

“ Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian. ”

- H. L. Mencken

“ The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later you're hungry again. ”

- George Miller

“ I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men and German to my horse. ”

- Charles V

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

- Pope John XXIII

“ Opera in English, is about as sensible as baseball in Italian. ”

- H. L. Mencken

“ In every real actor, there is a need to feel for a few hours like the center of the world. Egocentrismo, we say in Italian. ”

- Vittorio Gassman
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