100+ Best Argentina Quotes and Argentina Instagram Captions

Best Argentina Quotes

“If I have to apply five turns to the screw each day for the happiness of Argentina, I will do it.” – Evita Peron

“They say that Argentinians descend from the boats! It’s a racial crisis where they meet Italians, Spaniards, French, Polish, indigenous America…It’s a very important mix that has the most refined expression in the Tango.” – Caloi

“Have you ever spent your life with Argentinians? When you see someone, you change truth, because Argentina, like the measles, is contagious.” – Mario Vargas Llosa

“How to live truthfully if I belong to this region where emotion always leads to reason, because Argentina has sweet-spotted places in its heart, where hope always invents some color, and people cannot dream or give love.” – Eladia Blázquez

“I grew up in a humble neighbourhood in Argentina called Dock Sud. From my house, about 200 metres away was a football pitch. That’s where I spent my childhood. It’s a neighbourhood where everybody helped each other because there was a lot of difficulties. There, I grew up happily, because I learned a lot of things.” – Javier Zanetti 

“I hear in my eyes the most marvelous music, which, for me, is the hallmark of the Argentine people.” – Juan Perón

“The nation’s government has just handed me the bill that grants us our civil rights. I am receiving it before you, certain that I am accepting this on behalf of all Argentine women, and I can feel my hands tremble with joy as they grasp the laurel proclaiming victory.” – Evita Peron

“I had watched for many years and seen how a few rich families held much of Argentina’s wealth and power in their hands. So Peron and the government brought in an eight-hour working day, sickness pay, and fair wages to give poor workers a fair go.” – Evita Peron

“Argentina and Burma. I have been to most of the countries in the world, but not those two. I want to shoot doves in Argentina. Burma, of course, because no one has really been there.” – Jeremy Clarkson

“I don’t think that Argentinian cinema is well-known outside Argentina the way it should be.” – Guillermo del Toro

Funny Argentina Puns for Instagram Captions

“I’m Buenos over heels for Argentina!”

“No need to gaucho guard down – Argentina’s safe and fun!”

“Don’t cry for me if I eat all the empanadas!”

“This steak is rare-ly a disappointment in Argentina!”

“I came for the views, but I stayed for the mate.”

“This tango has me twisting with joy!”

“My trip to Argentina? Meat expectations and then some!”

“Got lost in Patagonia… it was a wilder-mess!”

“Buenos Aires? More like Good Vibes Airwaves!”

“Argentina – where every day is a grill-tastic experience!”

Inspirational Quotes about Argentina

“I was raised in Argentina until I was 11, and now I go back there a lot, at least twice a year. It’s a country where I feel very comfortable, and it represents an important period in my life.” – Viggo Mortensen 

“Football is a socialist sport. Financially, some may receive more rewards than others but, from a footballing perspective, for 90 minutes, regardless of whether you are Lionel Messi or the substitute right-back for Argentina, you are all working to the same end.” – John Barnes

“I was born in Argentina, where polo is popular, and my father always loved horses, so he encouraged me to play. He’s the main reason I started to play polo and get involved with the sport.” – Nacho Figueras

“When I finished high school, I was 16, and in Argentina, you have to choose a career right after high school. There is no such thing as a liberal arts education.” – Cesar Pelli

“I repeat what I always say: I want the best for Argentina in every way. I never try to make trouble for anybody.” – Lionel Messi

“I love soccer. My father is from Argentina, and my mother is from El Salvador. I grew up watching Argentine soccer. I get really worked up watching soccer. It’s in my blood.” – J. D. Pardo

“I’m a first-generation American. My mother is from Argentina. My father is from Italy. When my dad was around five or six, his family migrated to Argentina. That’s where he met my mom. They got married, and moved to Los Angeles – North Hollywood, to be exact.” – Diana Taurasi

“I grew up listening to everything. You know, from Argentinean folk music, tango, jazz, rock, just everything.” – Gustavo Santaolalla

“I’m a daughter of the middle class with a strong sense of social mobility and individualism, like the waves of immigrants, like my Spanish grandparents, who made Argentina.” – Cristina Kirchner 

“When I was 13, we went back to Argentina to live for a year. I got to see my extended family – really see them: where they grew up, how they lived. It was a different kind of struggle. There is no money. There are no jobs. And they still have to find a way to feed their families.” – Diana Taurasi

Short Argentina Quotes

“Argentina is ready to take its place. It’s a big country with a lot of talent.” – Mauricio Macri

“In Argentina, if the weather is bad, critics will blame it on the currency board.” – Steve Hanke

“The tango is really a combination of many cultures, though it eventually became the national music of Argentina.” – Yo-Yo Ma 

“Everyone should learn to tango in Argentina before they die.” – Ian McKeever

“One thing I like about Argentina, they only cook with salt; that’s it.” – Robert Duvall

“You can be Argentine Jewish, Argentine Italian, Argentine Spanish, and use these roots to count singular histories.” – Marcelo Birmajer

“I grew up listening to everything. You know, from Argentinean folk music, tango, jazz, rock, just everything.” – Gustavo Santaolalla

“That is the problem we have in Argentina: we do not sit down and think.” – Gerardo Martino

“It was very difficult to leave Argentina when I was a kid, so I only spoke Spanish for the first six years of my life.” – Anya Taylor-Joy

“Argentina wants to have good ties with the entire world.” – Mauricio Macri

Argentina Quotes about Life and Travels

“My grandfather was a very mystical guy who travelled from Argentina to Chile, across the mountains with a donkey, carrying the Torah.” – Alejandro Jodorowsky

“I grew up with horses when I was a kid in Argentina. I like them. I respect them. I’m careful around them. You never know what they’re going to do. They’re endlessly interesting. I’ve had some good acting partners that were horses over the years.” – Viggo Mortensen

“I love Argentina because I was born there, and there are some gorgeous places to visit there.” – Mauro Icardi

“Argentina is amazing.” – Arjun Kapoor

“We chose the national park idea because it’s really the highest form of protection for landscapes that exists under current law, especially in Chile and Argentina.” – Douglas Tompkins

“Without much money, I traveled to Argentina to see the meat industry, and after that, I wanted to travel to the United States, but I was refused a visa 5 or 6 times, but I never gave up.” – Salt Bae

“I could go back to Argentina to live, but not to play.” – Willy Caballero

“I like the Patagonia in Argentina.” – Marc Gasol

“If you’re from Argentina, you don’t dream about these things. You probably dream about being in an Olympic game, but winning it? Going there and beating the NBA stars’ team… you don’t dream about that.” – Manu Ginobili

“When I lived in Argentina, I had to change my sense of humour to fit in – I became a slapstick character because that’s how I communicated humour when I wasn’t quite able to manipulate the language and make a joke.” – Vick Hope

Top Argentine Tango quotes

“I’ve always wanted to learn the Argentine tango.“ – Jodie Sweetin

“You have to have chemistry – it’s acting. I need to make people believe the rumba is about two people in love, and the tango is about passion.“ – Ricky Whittle

“For me, tango was always for the ear rather than the feet.“ – Astor Piazzolla

“The traditional tango is really staccato, but with the Argentine tango, you have to be really sexy and saucy.“ – Victoria Arlen

“I once went to La Boca district, where you can watch street performers doing tango, and joined in. But it’s very hard to dance in Birkenstocks.“ – Chris Tarrant

“The Argentine tango is slow, controlled, and intricate. I’ve really fallen in love with this dance.“ – Joe Sugg 

“Whenever there’s a specialty dance, such as the Charleston or the Argentine Tango, ‘Strictly’ enlists expert choreographers to work with the professional dancers.“ – Angela Rippon

“I love ballroom dance, my favorite style being the Argentine Tango.“ – Shirley Ballas

“I’ve fallen in love with South American music: Tango, the music of Argentina, the music of Brazil, Stan Getz, Bebel Gilberto.” – Melody Gardot

“I still can’t believe that some pseudocritics continue to accuse me of having murdered tango. They have it backward. They should look at me as the saviour of tango. I performed plastic surgery on it.“ – Astor Piazzolla

Argentina Football Quotes

“If I could apologise and go back and change history, I would. But the goal is still a goal, Argentina became world champions, and I was the best player in the world.” – Diego Armando Maradona

“Brazil versus Argentina is always a great game, with great football and scoring chances.” – Thiago Silva

“I lived and breathed football. Now I have difficulty walking because of that, because I gave much more than I actually had to give.” – Gabriel Batistuta

“Everybody in Argentina can remember ‘the hand of God’ in the England match in the 1986 World Cup. Now, in my country, the ‘hand of God’ has brought us an Argentinian pope.” – Diego Maradona

“I always thought I wanted to play professionally, and I always knew that to do that, I’d have to make a lot of sacrifices. I made sacrifices by leaving Argentina, leaving my family to start a new life. I changed my friends, my people. Everything. But everything I did, I did for football, to achieve my dream.” – Lionel Messi

“I went to Italy as a 21-year-old when I could easily have stayed in Argentina, playing for the biggest club in the land, River Plate, and having a nice, comfortable life.” – Hernan Crespo 

“Messi is a god, as a person and even more as a player. I hope that he wins the World Cup with Argentina.” – Samuel Eto’o

“I want to concentrate on winning things with Barcelona and Argentina. Then, if people want to say nice things about me when I have retired, great. Right now, I need to concentrate on being part of a team, not just on me.” – Lionel Messi

“People are more afraid of losing than they are excited about winning.” – Demian Bio

“Boca River is the most beautiful game in the world.” – Juan Román Riquelme

Argentina Quotes by Famous Argentinians

“Time is my greatest enemy. Evita Peron, I am my own woman. Evita Peron I demanded more rights for women because I know what women had to put up with.” – Evita Peron

“I want to broaden my horizons, speak a new language, meet new people, and experience a different culture.” – Gabriel Batistuta

“I am black or white, I’ll never be grey in my life.” – Diego Armando Maradona

“Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.” – Jorge Luis Borges

“Time is my greatest enemy.” – Evita Peron 

“Passion is needed for any great work, and for the revolution, passion and audacity are required in big doses.” – Che Guevara

“You need great passion, because everything you do with great pleasure, you do well.” – Juan Manuel Fangio

“Life is a journey. When we stop, things don’t go right.” – Pope Francis

“Everything is relative, and you have to learn that sometimes you win and other times you lose.” – Alfredo Di Stefano

“I am my own woman.” – Evita Peron

Quotes about Buenos Aires

“Buenos Aires is the best city in the world. But paradoxically, it can also be the worst city in the world. And that contrast is what makes it so seductive… The pretension and madness of Buenos Aires make it absolutely unique. Someone said it was the capital of an empire that never existed. It has some of the sophistication of European capitals, but with just the right amount of decadence that prevents it from having the cloying beauty of Paris. Buenos Aires is chaotic, unpredictable, cruel, contradictory, but it is precisely these flaws that allow the city to breathe. Anything can happen in Buenos Aires.” – Guillermo Francella

“My beloved Buenos Aires, when I see you again, there will be no more sorrow or forgetfulness.” – Alfredo Le Pera

“One of the most attractive things about a city is the change, something that Buenos Aires holds above. That’s why we can truly mediate the city.” – Clorindo Testa

“A profound vibration unites all my patriotic fibers in contemplating the resurrection of the civic spirit in the heroic city of Buenos Aires.” – Leandro N. Alem

“I’ve always felt there’s something I like about Buenos Aires. I like it so much that I don’t like other people liking it. It’s a jealous love like that.” – Jorge Luis Borges

“When there is nothing left in the world, imagination will remain in Buenos Aires.” – Fito Páez

“We came from Buenos Aires to be surrounded by a certain type of people, and now it turns out that we are all felt in the same place.” – Unknown

“When the harshness and fury of Buenos Aires make me feel lonely, I go out for a walk through those neighborhoods.” – Ernesto Sábato

“I only paint in my country, and within my country, in my neighborhood. La Boca and its port.” – Benito Quinquela Martín

“I wish my heart was placed in Buenos Aires.” – San Martín

Quotes about Argentinians

“Without arriving in any barrio of Buenos Aires, in that golden triangle that includes Cordoba, Rosario and Santa Fè, it is incredible the quantity of talents that were born and that continue to blossom even today. Every 25 years in Argentina the strongest footballer in the world is born: Di Stefano, Maradona, Messi. Leaving out of category the genius of Diego Armando Maradona, who with Piazzolla and Gardel, represents the trimurti, in Argentina, where at the beginning of the 1900s a third of the population was Italian, the footballer is considered on a par with artists.” – Federico Buffa

“The Argentinians also express their affection by conjecturing, asking in doubt everything that we desire and value.” – Marcelo Bielsa

“The world, for the European, is a cosmos in which each time corresponds intimately to the function it performs; for the Argentine, it is a chaos.” – Jorge Luis Borges

“In the richest territory on earth lives a poor people, malnourished and living on starvation wages. Until we Argentines regain control of our wealth for the nation and the people, we will not be a sovereign nation or a happy people.” – Arturo Jauretche

“Argentinians are obsessed with the past, people are more worried about the past than about the future.” – Mario Augusto Bunge

“Argentina is a society where experience never transforms into learning.” – Santiago Kovadloff

“The English invented football, the Argentinians did something more, they invented the love for football.” – Federico Buffa

“In Chile, I learned the value of moderation. I am Argentinian, and Argentinians are exalted; we guide the impulse and the emotion.” – Marcelo Bielsa

“Here in Argentina, there is a lot of seriousness. Everyone wants to be professional and forget that rock is a curse and that those who make rock are locos.” – Luca Prodan

“Latins are tenderly enthusiastic. In Brazil, they throw flowers at you. In Argentina, they throw themselves.” – Marlene Dietrich