Italian Quotes

You, too, women, cast away all the cowards from your embraces; they will give you only cowards for children, and you who are the daughters of the land of beauty must bear children who are noble and brave.

Yes, young men, Italy owes to you an undertaking which has merited the applause of the universe. You have conquered and you will conquer still, because you are prepared for the tactics that decide the fate of battles.

We shall meet again before long to march to new triumphs.

To this wonderful page in our country's history another more glorious still will be added, and the slave shall show at last to his free brothers a sharpened sword forged from the links of his fetters.

The priest is the personification of falsehood.

Let those only return to their homes who are called by the imperative duties which they owe to their families, and those who by their glorious wounds have deserved the credit of their country.

If these hands, used to fighting, would be acceptable to His Holiness, we most thankfully dedicate them to the service of him who deserves so well of the Church and of the fatherland.

I utter this word with deepest affection and from the very bottom of my heart.

Apart from these, let all others remain to guard our glorious banners.

Ah, no, far be from me a thought which I loathe like poison.

I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food; I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country with his heart, and not merely with his lips, follow me.

Unfortunately, the greatest photographers don't pay extreme attention to the clothes. If they decide to put a dress in a bathtub or in front of a cow in the countryside with dirt everywhere, well, the dresses come back... ready to be put in the garbage.

My first year, people were interested in me because I was new. Then the press started to come.

I love the 2000s because everyone started to love haute couture.

I love my beauty. It's not my fault.

I like things simple.

I hope people will say, 'Mr. Valentino, he did something for fashion, no?'

I have my favourite fashion decade, yes, yes, yes: '60s. It was a sort of little revolution; the clothes were amazing but not too exaggerated.

I didn't like the '80s at all; it was a vulgar moment of fashion.

I am like a freight train. Working on the details, twisting them and playing with them over the years, but always staying on the same track.

I am happy that thousands of students, young designers and fashion people will be able to see and study my work in every aspect of it.

Even as a young boy, my passion was to design, and I have been very lucky to be able to do what I have loved all my life. There can be few greater gifts than that.

There are only three things I can do - make a dress, decorate a house, and entertain people.

I know what women want. They want to be beautiful.

I am always locked in my design studio.

I am especially grateful that I have been able to keep my own style over the decades, in spite of the many changes that have taken place in the world of fashion and in its business.

An evening dress that reveals a woman's ankles while walking is the most disgusting thing I have ever seen.

We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.

It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.

The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.