100+ Best Italy Quotes and Italy Instagram Captions

Best Italy Quotes

“You may have the universe if I may have Italy.“ – Giuseppe Verdi

“Italian culture is so deeply soaked in an appreciation of the good things in life.” – Mariska Hargitay

“The Creator made Italy by designs from Michelangelo.” – Mark Twain

“Italy will never be a normal country. Because Italy is Italy. If we were a normal country, we wouldn’t have Rome. We wouldn’t have Florence. We wouldn’t have the marvel that is Venice.” – Matteo Renzi

“In America, one must be something, but in Italy, one can simply be.“ – Pietros Maneos

“Life is a combination of magic and pasta.“ – Federico Fellini

“Everything in Italy that is particularly elegant and grand borders upon insanity and absurdity or at least is reminiscent of childhood.” – Alexander Herzen

“Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.” – Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

“Traveling Is The Ruin Of All Happiness! There’s No Looking At A Building After Seeing Italy.” – Fanny Burney

“What is the fatal charm of Italy? What do we find there that can be found nowhere else? I believe it is a certain permission to be human, which other places, other countries, lost long ago.” – Erica Jong

Unique Italy captions for Instagram

“Came to Italy for the sights, stayed for the gelato.”

“Leaving a pizza my heart in Italy.“

“Veni, vidi, amavi. We came, we saw, we loved.”

“We will always have Italy.“

“I followed my heart and it led me to Italy.“

“Money can’t buy happiness but it can buy a trip to Italy and that is kind of the same thing.“

“Are you upsetti? Then eat a spaghetti!“

“When in Italy, carbs are no longer a sin.“

 “Travel is not finding yourself, it’s about Finding Pizza.”

”Buongiorno Principessa!” – Life is beautiful

Romantic quotes about Italy

“Italy and the spring and the first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.” – Bertrand Russell

“All of my youth growing up in my Italian family was focused around the table. That’s where I learned about love.“ – Leo Buscaglia

“How beautiful is sunset, when the glow of Heaven descends upon a land like thee, Thou Paradise of exiles, Italy!” – Percy Bysshe Shelley

“In Italy, food is an expression of love, it is how you show those around you that you care for them.” – Joe Bastianich

“Italy was where the soul went to find calm and love, and I wanted to hold the best of it in the palm of my hand.” – Lisa Brennan-Jobs

“But when Italians say ‘Mangia! Mangia!’ they’re not just talking about food. They’re trying to get you to stay with them, to sit by them at the table for as long as possible.“  – Sergio Esposito

“This was the Italy that fed her soul, where hope was restored and broken hearts were mended in the hands of great artists.”  – Adriana Trigiani

“There’s nothing more romantic than Italian food.“ – Elisha Cuthbert

“Eat well, laugh often, love much.“ – Italian Proverb

“Italy is a dream that keeps returning for the rest of your life.” – Anna Akhmatova 

Funny quotes about Italy

“I’m a pretty calm person. That came from living in Italy for a long time. Nothing works. Nothing is on time. You have to learn to deal with it.“ – Tom Ford

“It’s easy to understand why the most beautiful poems about England in the spring were written by poets living in Italy at the time.“ – Philip Dunne

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

“In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock” – Orson Welles 

“Italians have only two things on their mind: the other is spaghetti.“ – Catherine Deneuve

“What is it about Italy that makes lady novelists reach such summits of absurdity?” – E.M. Forster

“Not much was really invented during the Renaissance, if you don’t count modern civilization.” – P. J. O’Rourke

“If there is one thing that works in Italy, it is a mess.“ – Leo Longanesi

”As they say in Italy, Italians were eating with a knife and fork when the French were still eating each other. The Medici family had to bring their Tuscan cooks up there so they could make something edible. “ – Mario Batali 

“You try to come up with new ideas, but in the end, people just want to eat Italian food.“ – Stephen Starr

Short quotes about Italy

“The name of Italy has magic in its very syllables.“ – Mary Shelley

“We are all pilgrims who seek Italy.“ – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Italy’s siren call lures us more and more.“ – Frances Mayes

“Even now I miss Italy dearly, I dream about it every night.” – Eila Hiltunen

“…is there anywhere in the world as full of beauty as Italy?” – Natalia Sanmartín Fenollera

“Italy is a geographical expression.” – Klemens von Metternich

“I gasp for air if I don’t get to breathe Italian air once a year.” – Danny Meyer

“A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority.” – Samuel Johnson

“The most stylish country in the world is Italy.” – Nick Rhodes

“Italy will always have the best food.” – Diane von Furstenberg

Inspirational quotes about Italy

“I find other countries have this or this, but Italy is the only one that has it all for me. The culture, the cuisine, the people, the landscape, the history. Just everything comes together there.”- Frances Mayes

“Open my heart and you will see, Graved inside of it – Italy.“ – Robert Browning

“Italy is the last country where people savor the joy of living. It makes us believe it even when Italy herself has ceased to believe.” – Roger Peyrefitte

“Italy is the only workshop in the world that can turn out both Botticellis and Berlusconis.“ –Beppe Severgnini

“If the landscape of human emotion were to exist in a country, it would be in Italy.” – Lisa Fantino

“One doesn’t come to Italy for niceness,” was the retort; “one comes for life. Buongiorno! Buongiorno!” – E.M. Forster

“If you deconstruct Italy, you will, in the end, see a grapevine, a tomato, and a small boy hammering a shard of marble.” – Pietros Maneos

“A man has not fully lived until he experiences that gentle balmy clime of ancient empires, the land of lemon trees and the genius of Michelangelo.” – E.A. Bucchianeri

“One of the great joys of traveling through Italy is discovering firsthand that it is, indeed, a dream destination.” – Debra Levinson

“You know, people come to Italy for all sorts of reasons, but when they stay, it’s for the same two things.” “What?” “Love and gelato.” – Jenna Evans Welch

Quotes by famous Italians about Italy

“We don’t sell a car, we sell a dream. We are Italy’s national team. There are many great soccer teams in our country, but there is only one Ferrari.” – Luca di Montezemolo

“Everything you see I owe to pasta.“ – Sophia Loren

“Italians know that what matters is style, not fashion. Italian style does not have social or age boundaries.“ – Stefano Gabbana

“There is something about giving everything to your profession. In Italian, an obsession is not necessarily negative. It’s the art of putting all your energy into one thing; it’s the art of transforming even what you eat for lunch into architecture.” – Renzo Piano

“Italy is the only country in the world where culture was born first and then the nation, there is no other place in the world.“ – Roberto Benigni

“First of all, let’s get one thing straight. Your Italy and our Italia are not the same thing. Italy is a soft drug peddled in predictable packages, such as hills in the sunset, olive groves, lemon trees, white wine, and raven-haired girls. Italia, on the other hand, is a maze. It’s alluring, but complicated. It’s the kind of place that can have you fuming and then purring in the space of a hundred meters, or in the course of ten minutes. Italy is the only workshop in the world that can turn out both Botticellis and Berlusconis.” – Beppe Severgnini

“Wasting time is something that people do or feel all over the world, not just in Italy.” – Paolo Sorrentino

“I don’t like being called ‘macho.’ Macho basically means stupid and a real Italian man is not macho, he’s smart. That’s smart in both senses: elegant and clever.” – Andrea Bocelli

“Anni e bicchieri di vino non si contano mai – Age and wine glasses should never be counted“ — Italian proverb

“If you can’t live longer, live deeper.” — Italian proverb

Quotes about life in Italy

“I was offered a free villa in Hollywood, but I said no thank you, I prefer to live in Italy.” – Ennio Morricone

“In Italy, they add work and life on to food and wine.” – Robin Leach

“Maybe money can’t buy happiness, but it can get you a nice little villa in Tuscany, and that’s close enough for me.” — Lois Greiman

“Move to Italy. I mean it: they know about living in debt; they don’t care. […] Nice cars. Sharp suits. Great food. Stroll into work at 10. Lunch from 12 till three. Leave work at five. Thats living“ – John Lydon

“For sure, in Italy, the sun always shines.” ― Aleksandar Mitrovic

“Who can resist sleep at two or three in the afternoon in these sunlit parts of the Mediterranean“ – André Aciman

“I love my pizza so much, in fact, that I have come to believe in my delirium that my pizza might actually love me, in return. I am having a relationship with this pizza, almost an affair.” – Elizabeth Gilbert

“Italy is a country where pleasure principle dominates.” – Sari Gilbert

“I spent five years in Italy, and the Italians have a slightly different lifestyle. Everything is a bit slower and more easygoing. You can feel that when you live there; you become a little more relaxed about typically ‘German’ things like accuracy and punctuality.“ – Miroslav Klose

“Il bel far niente means ‘the beauty of doing nothing’… [it] has always been a cherished Italian ideal. The beauty of doing nothing is the goal of all your work, the final accomplishment for which you are most highly congratulated. The more exquisitely and delightfully you can do nothing, the higher your life’s achievement. You don’t necessarily need to be rich in order to experience this, either.” ― Elizabeth Gilbert

Travel quotes about Italy

“And I do believe that Italy really purifies and ennobles all who visit her. She is the school as well as the playground of the world.” – E. M. Forster

“Italian is an extraordinary people. I would very much like it to be a normal people.” – Altan

“One of the great joys of traveling through Italy is discovering firsthand that it is, indeed, a dream destination.” – Debra Levinson

“As soon as I crossed the Italian border, my health and life seemed to be magically restored. There was the sun and there were the smiling Italians.” – Tennessee Williams

“When life gives you twists and turns, Chique Yourself Up in Italy!” – Barbara Conelli

“For us to go to Italy and to penetrate into Italy is like a most fascinating act of self-discovery.” – D.H. Lawrence

“All my ego wants is to be sitting by a lake in Italy. It doesn’t want to be backstage, warming up.” – Chet Faker

“And don’t let me beg you, go with that awful tourist idea that Italy’s only a museum of antiquities and art. Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvelous than the land” – E. M. Forster

“A man who has not been in Italy is always conscious of an inferiority.” – Samuel Johnson  

“I think I feel automatically at home in Italy.” – Boyd Rice

Quotes about Italians

“Italians lose wars as if they were football matches, and football matches as if they were wars” – Winston Churchill

“French people are Italian people in a bad mood” – Jean Cocteau

“The Italians have their priorities right: They’re driven, they do their work, but they really enjoy the day-to-day and they don’t put off the enjoyment of the everyday for some future goal.” – Frances Mayes

“And that is … how they are. So terribly physically all over one another. They pour themselves one over the other like so much melted butter over parsnips. They catch each other under the chin, with a tender caress of the hand, and they smile with sunny melting tenderness into each other’s face.” – D.H. Lawrence

“Being an Italian is a full-time job.“ – Beppe Severgnini

”You know what I’ve been told? Italian men respect their wives. They spoil their mistresses. But the only women they love are their mothers.” – In Love and War

“The Italians have long known what makes a livable town or city.” – Norman Foster

“I love places that have an incredible history. I love the Italian way of life. I love the food. I love the people. I love the attitudes of Italians.” – Elton John

“I realized Mediterranean cultures have their issues. Fine, don’t burst my bubble. I didn’t want to marry these guys, I just wanted to watch.“ – Barbara Kingsolver 

“Italians are great improvisers. If something unforeseen happens, they throw up their hands, and they adjust.“ – Max von Sydow

“Italians love sun, sin, and spaghetti.“ – Lady Randolph Churchill

“Everybody in Italy cooks. They have a better knowledge of the kitchen – that’s the place around which the whole of Italian society revolves.” – Gino D’Acampo

“I will never find people like the Italians… there is this spontaneity, this living life with a smile, to its fullest.” – Pavel Nedved

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