Baldassare Castiglione Quotes

#1. Men demonstrate their courage more often in little things than in great. - BALDASSARE CASTIGLIONE

Kate Quinn

#2. Languages happily restrict the mind to what is of its own native growth and fitted for it, as rivers and mountains bond countries; or the empire of learning, as well as states, would become unwieldy and overgrown.

William Hazlitt

#3. Practise in everything a certain nonchalance that shall conceal design and show that what is done and said is done without effort and almost without thought.

Baldassare Castiglione

#4. After so many reversals of fortune today, they half expected a meteorite to hurtle from the sky and vaporize them if they dared to move. Finally,

Gordon Korman

#5. No love is Love that subjugates the Lover.
No love is Love that feeds on flesh and blood.
No love is Love that draws a woman to a man only to breed
more women and men and thus perpetuate their bondage to the flesh.

Mikhail Naimy

#6. Take care lest perchance you fall into the mistake of thinking to gain more by being merciful than by being just; for to pardon him too easily that has transgressed is to wrong him that transgresses not.

Baldassare Castiglione

#7. Beauty, I believe, comes from God; therefore, there can be no beauty without goodness.

Baldassare Castiglione

#8. I had a friend at college who took being poor very personally. He started showering in the sports centre next door and said he wasn't going to pay for the hot water in our flat any more because he didn't use it. He made me and my other friend pay the bills on our own.

Robert Webb

#9. Outward beauty is a true sign of inner goodness. This loveliness, indeed, is impressed upon the body in varying degrees as a token by which the soul can be recognized for what it is, just as with trees the beauty of the blossom testifies to the goodness of the fruit.

Baldassare Castiglione

#10. Men demonstrate their courage far more often in little things than in great.

Baldassare Castiglione

#11. Employ in everything a certain casualness which conceals art and creates the impression that what is done and said is accomplished without effort and without its being thought about. It is from this, in my opinion, that grace largely derives.

Baldassare Castiglione

#12. Obvious effort is the antithesis of grace.

Baldassare Castiglione

#13. Think of what starlight
And lamplight would lack
Diamonds and fireflies
If they couldn't lean against Black ...

Mary O'Neill

#14. There are many who think that they are marvelous if they can simply resemble a great man in some one thing; and often they seize only on the defect he has.

Baldassare Castiglione

#15. The Democratic Party is a house of many mansions. It is a body which is extremely important in representing all kinds of people in all parts of the country who have very broad and very different views.

John Dingell