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Insults and Insulting
Quotes about Italy
Venice
is excessively ugly in the rain - it looks like King's Cross.
Sir John
Gielgud
If
there is a Hell, Rome is built on top of it.
German saying
Venice
is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs at one go.
Truman Capote
Rome
reminds me of a man who lives by exhibiting to travellers his grandmother's
corpse.
James Joyce
Italy
is a paradise for horses and hell for women.
German saying
Italian
devotion and German fasting have no meaning.
Danish saying
Half
an Italian in a house is one too many.
German and
French saying
Italian
soup.
Czech term
for poison
The
Italian will kill his father for money.
Greek saying
To
cook an egg, to make a bed for a dog, and to teach an Italian to do anything
are three hard things.
German
saying
Cross
yourself once before an Audalusian and thrice on spotting an Italian.
Spanish saying
Italian
devotion and German fasting have no meaning.
Danish saying
Genoa
has mountains without wood, sea without fish, women without shame, and men without
conscience.
English saying
Half
an Italian is one too many in a house.
French and German insult
Italy
is the paradise of the flesh, the hell of the soul, the purgatory of the pocketbook.
German saying
Italy
is a paradise inhabited by devils.
German saying
In Italy,
there is too much grinding, too much feasting, and too many fires.
German saying
An ass
in Germany is a professor in Rome.
German saying
Italy
might well be called a paradise; for whoever gets there readily falls into sin.
German saying
The Italian
takes the money from the Church, and the Church from all the world.
German saying
If lies
were Italian, he'd make a good interpreter.
German saying
The Italian
will kill his father for money.
Illyrian saying
The Italianized
Englishman is a devil incarnate.
Italian saying
He that
hath to do with a Tuscan must not be blind.
Italian saying
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