Inspiring quotes about Italy and Italian Instagram captions you will love

50 inspiring quotes about Italy and Italian Instagram captions you will love.

Italy is nicknamed ‘il Bel Paese’, the beautiful country.

Its beauty has been celebrated for centuries however, there is something about Italy that goes beyond how pretty it is.

Italy has a way to get under your skin and become part of you and while it is not for everyone, most people who take the time to fully experience Italy, fall head over heels in love with Italy, its culture and its people.

These are 50 of the most beautiful, insightful and inspiring quotes about Italy by artists, thinkers and visitors to Italy. If you are looking for Italian Instagram captions, many of these are perfect!

Inspiring quotes about Italy & Italian captions for Instagram

You may have the universe if I may have Italy — Giuseppe Verdi

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 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

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

Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There’s no looking at a building after seeing Italy. — F. Burney

The Creator made Italy from designs by Michelangelo — Mark Twain

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

‘One doesn’t come to Italy for niceness’, was the retort. ‘One comes for life. Buon giorno! Buon giorno!’ – E.M. Forster

Italian cities have long been held up as ideals, not least by New Yorkers and Londoners enthralled by the ways their architecture gives beauty and meaning to everyday acts — Rebecca Solnit

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

Many visitors fell in love with Italy and made it part of their souls. These are some of their feelings for il Bel Paese

Italy is a dream that keeps returning for the rest of your life — Anna Akhmatova

Even now I miss Italy dearly, I dream about it every night. — Eila Hiltunen

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

I love the language, it sounds as if it should be written on satin with syllables which breathe of the sweet South. — Lord Byron

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

How beautiful is sunset, when the glow of Heaven descends upon a land like thee, Thou Paradise of exiles, Italy! — P. B. Shelley

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

A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority, from his not having seen what it is expected a man should see – Samuel Johnson

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

Italy is my destiny; it calls to me to return home– Melissa Muldoon

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

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

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

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

We are all pilgrims who seek Italy — J. W. von Goethe

Modern quotes about Italy that capture its complex and varies soul

The following quote by Beppe Severgnini is probably my favorite of all quotes about Italy.

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

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,

Rome quotes and Rome captions

Rome is my home town and it feels my heart with joy to see the inspiration it gave to some of its most illustrious visitors. Read my travel guides to Rome if planning a visit!

To Rome, for everything – Miguel de Cervantes

Rome was a poem pressed into service as a city – Anatole Broyard

Rome is not like any other city. It’s a majestic museum, a living room to tiptoe through. – Alberto Sordi

Yes, I have finally arrived to this Capital of the World! I now see all the dreams of my youth coming to life… Only in Rome is it possible to understand Rome. – J.W. von Goethe

Rome, the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar – George Eliot

If we could be reborn wherever we chose, how crowded Rome would be, populated by souls who had spent their previous lives longing to inhabit a villa on the Janiculum Hill — Francine Prose

I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble – Augustus,

A fool is one who admires other cities without visiting Rome – Francesco Petrarca

Rome is the city of echoes, the city of illusions, and the city of yearning – Giotto di Bondone

Italy has changed. But Rome is Rome – Robert De Niro

Methinks I will not die quite happy without having seen something of that Rome — Sir Walter Scott

Rome will exist as long as the Colosseum does. When the Colosseum falls, so will Rome; when Rome falls, so will the world. – Bede

Rome was mud and smoky skies; the rank smell of the Tiber and the exotically spiced cooking fires of a hundred different nationalities. Rome was white marble and gilding and heady perfumes; the blare of trumpets and the shrieking of market-women and the eternal, sub-aural hum of more people, speaking more languages than Gaius had ever imagined existed, crammed together on seven hills whose contours had long ago disappeared beneath this encrustation if humanity. Rome was the pulsing heart of the world – Marion Zimmer Bradley

Quote about Venice and Venice captions

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This was Venice, the flattering and suspect beauty this city, half fairy tale and half tourist trap, in whose insalubrious air the arts once rankly and voluptuously blossomed, where composers have been inspired to lulling tones of somniferous eroticism. – Thomas Mann

A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him. — Arthur Symons

To build a city where it is impossible to build a city is madness in itself, but to build there one of the most elegant and grandest of cities is the madness of genius – Alexander Herzen

Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go — Truman Capote

Venice, its temples and palaces did seem like fabrics of enchantment piled to heaven — Percy Bysshe Shelley

The surface of Venice is constantly metamorphosing, and painting Venice is almost like being a restorer, peeling off the layers to find the picture after picture underneath. — Arbit Blatas

It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone – Erica Jon

I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs. A palace and a prison on each hand; I saw from out the wave of her structure’s rise As from the stroke of the enchanter’s wand: A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around me, and a dying Glory smiles O’er the far times, when many a subject land Look’d to the winged Lion’s marble piles, Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles. -Lord Byron

Italy quotes about Florence

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Everything about Florence seems to be colored with a mild violet, like diluted wine – Henry James

To see the sun sink down, drowned on his pink and purple and golden floods, and overwhelm Florence with tides of color that make all the sharp lines dim and faint and turn the solid city to a city of dreams, is a sight to stir the coldest nature – Mark Twain

Among the four old bridges that span the river, the Ponte Vecchio, that bridge which is covered with the shops of jewelers and goldsmiths, is a most enchanting feature in the scene. The space of one house, in the center, being left open, the view beyond, is shown as in a frame; and that precious glimpse of sky, and water, and rich buildings, shining so quietly among the huddled roofs and gables on the bridge, is exquisite. – Charles Dickens

Rome and New York were impressive, but they knew they were. They had the beauty of a vain woman who had squeezed herself into her favorite dress after hours of careful self-worship. There was a raw, feral beauty about this landscape that was totally unselfconscious but no less real…There was no pomp or vanity here; this was an innocent, natural beauty, the best kind, like a woman first thing in the morning, lit up by the sun streaming through a window, who doesn’t quite believe it when you tell her how beautiful she is. — Leonardo Donofrio

I do quite like sightseeing. I like churches, museums, galleries and all that stuff. I love the smell of a church in Italy or the smell of an old greasy spoon somewhere. I like markets and little funny shops in the backstreets of Florence. — Ashley Jensen

When I walk up the piazza of Santa Croce I feel as if it were not a Florentine nor a European church but a church built by and for the human race — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Here we are at last. The Italian proverb says “See Naples and die” but I say, see Naples and live; for there seems a great deal worth living for – Arthur John Strutt

In Italy, food is an expression of love. It is how you show those around you that you care for them. Having a love for food means you also have a love for those you are preparing it for and for yourself. — Joe Bastianich

Quotes about Italian Food

Everything you see I owe to spaghetti – Sophia Loren

Life is a combination of magic and pasta – Federico Fellini,r

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

Italy will always have the best food – Diane von Furstenberg

I think people in Italy live their lives better than we do. It’s an older country, and they’ve learned to celebrate dinner and lunch, whereas we sort of eat as quickly as we can to get through it. – George Clooney

In Italy, food is an expression of love. It is how you show those around you that you care for them. Having a love for food means you also have a love for those you are preparing it for and for yourself. – Joe Bastianich

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, Eat, Pray, Love

“Parla come magni,’ It means, ‘Speak the way you eat,’ or in my personal translation: ‘Say it like you eat it.’ It’s a reminder – when you’re making a big deal out of explaining something when you’re searching for the right words – to keep your language as simple and direct as Roman rood. Don’t make a big production out of it. Just lay it on the table.” – Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

Italian food really reflects the people. It reflects like a prism that fragments into regions – Lidia Bastianich

Quotes about Italy style and fashion

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

Italian style is a natural attitude. It is about a life of good taste. It doesn’t have to be expensive. Simple but with good taste. Luxury is possible to buy. Good taste is not. – Diego Della Valle

When life gives you twists and turns, chique yourself up in Italy! – Barbara Conelli

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

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