# Totò's most famous lines

Lines by the Prince of Laughter, Antonio de Curtis (Naples, 1898-1967), that became part of everyday Italian, with the film or work they come from where known.

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- Dec 29, 2021 · la_maratona
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## Top 12

1. **Gentlemen are born, and I was born one, modestly!** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — His motto, also the title of the film «Signori si nasce» (1960); the grammar is deliberately wrong.
2. **Oh, do me a favour!** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — His most famous catchphrase, to brush someone off.
3. **Regardless!** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — His favourite filler word, used out of place and now proverbial.
4. **Are we men or corporals?** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — From the 1955 film of the same name: humanity divided into men and bullying «corporals».
5. **We wanted to know the address…** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The scene with the traffic warden in Milan's Piazza del Duomo in «Totò, Peppino e la... malafemmina» (1956), in made-up French.
6. **Miss, we come with this letter of mine to say a word to you…** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The start of the ungrammatical letter dictated to Peppino in «Totò, Peppino e la... malafemmina» (1956).
7. **And I pay!** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — From the film «47 morto che parla» (1950), the stingy baron who always has to pay.
8. **Every limit has its patience.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — One of his reversed proverbs, instead of «every patience has a limit».
9. **Trifles, trivialities, nonsense!** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — His way of saying something doesn't matter at all.
10. **It's the sum that makes the total.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — One of his obvious truths delivered with great solemnity.
11. **Do you know what death is?… it's a leveller.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — From his Neapolitan poem «'A livella» (1964), about death making everyone equal.
12. **Speak as you mind!** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — One of his howlers, instead of «mind how you speak».

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