Boccaccio Quotes

#1. No-thing less splendid than a golden sepulchre would have suited so noble a heart.

Giovanni Boccaccio

#2. Fiammetta, whose wavy tresses fell in a flood of gold over her white and delicate shoulders

Giovanni Boccaccio

#3. In the best of relationships you have two people who cannot think of anything that was not part of the deal.

Robert Breault

#4. It's better to repent what you enjoyed than to repent not having enjoyed anything.

Giovanni Boccaccio

#5. In the affairs of this world, poverty alone is without envy.

Giovanni Boccaccio

#6. Kissed mouth don't lose its fortune, on the contrary it renews itself just as the moon does.

Giovanni Boccaccio

#7. I think we're lucky to be living when we are, because things are going to get worse.

David Attenborough

#8. Nothing is so indecent that it cannot be said to another person if the proper words are used to convey it.

Giovanni Boccaccio

#9. In this world, you only get what you grab for.

Giovanni Boccaccio

#10. When the dead departed, they took away any falsehoods that they might have allowed us to believe while alive; we who are left behind have to embark on a different life, since the dead are no longer here to help us deceive ourselves.

Yiyun Li

#11. Do as we say, and not as we do

Giovanni Boccaccio

#12. I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry themselves about style, and so cease to be themselves. Without a master, without a model, without a guide, I go to work and earn my living, my well-being and my fame.

Pietro Aretino

#13. First Rule of Acting: Whatever happens, look as if it were intended.

Arthur Bloch

#14. The scholar, as wise as he was full of wrath, knowing that threats only serve as weapons to the person so threatened, kept all his resentment within his own breast [...]

Giovanni Boccaccio

#15. Heaven would indeed be heaven if lovers were there permitted as much enjoyment as they had experienced on earth.

Giovanni Boccaccio

#16. My mind is wholly possessed by Love, who rules every part there of, in virtue of his all-embracing deity.

Giovanni Boccaccio

#17. While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman.

Giovanni Boccaccio

#18. The same fact that Boccaccio offers in support of religion might be adduced in behalf of a republic: It exists in spite of its ministers.

Heinrich Heine

#19. To have compassion for those who suffer is a human quality which everyone should possess, especially those who have required comfort themselves in the past and have managed to find it in others.

Giovanni Boccaccio

#20. In my stunted career as a scholar, I'd read promissory notes, papal bulls and guidelines for Inquisitorial interrogation. Dante, too. Boccaccio ... But after 1400? Nihil.

Cathleen Schine

#21. When God's Word is deliberately internalized, it will be authentically externalized because it's no longer what we do - it's part of who we are.

Beth Moore

#22. People tend to believe the bad rather than the good.

Giovanni Boccaccio

#23. I am one who could have forgotten the plague, listening to Boccaccio's stories; and I am not ashamed of it.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#24. Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy

Giovanni Boccaccio

#25. When I was handed a hammer, my first project was building a three-story tree house.

Ty Pennington

#26. Much is required of those who are happy, especially if they have needed comforting in the past, and have received it.

Giovanni Boccaccio