Italian Stereotypes Quotes & Sayings

In a machine age, dressmaking is one of the last refuges of the human, the personal, the inimitable. — Christian Dior

The arbitrary character of patriarchal ascriptions of temperament and role has little effect upon their power over us. Nor do the mutually exclusive, contradictory, and polar qualities of the categories "masculine" and "feminine" imposed upon human personality give rise to sufficiently serious question among us. Under their aegis each personality becomes little more, and often less than half, of its human potential. Politically, the fact that each group exhibits a circumscribed but complementary personality and range of activity is of secondary importance to the fact that each represents a status or power division. In the matter of conformity patriarchy is a governing ideology without peer; it is probably that no other system has ever exercised such a complete control over its subjects. — Kate Millett

He was dead. He just didn't know it yet. — Christine Feehan

I think I'll give the Cage of Death a miss too," I said. Crocodiles were fascinating creatures, like living dinosaurs, but they could do their living over there somewhere, far away from me. — Renee Conoulty

Never trust an Italian. The Nazis did that, and look where it got them. — Paul Murray

Grace will ever speak for itself and be fruitful in well-doing; the sanctified, cross is a fruitful tree. — Samuel Rutherford

You cannot trust a person until you know where and how he lives — Paulo Coelho

As an Italian-American, I have a special responsibility to be sensitive to ethnic stereotypes. — Al D'Amato

I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine. — Peter Ustinov