Top 26 Boccaccio Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. I am one who could have forgotten the plague, listening to Boccaccio's stories; and I am not ashamed of it.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
#4. 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
#5. Much is required of those who are happy, especially if they have needed comforting in the past, and have received it.
Giovanni Boccaccio
#6. When I was handed a hammer, my first project was building a three-story tree house.
Ty Pennington
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman.
Giovanni Boccaccio
#12. My mind is wholly possessed by Love, who rules every part there of, in virtue of his all-embracing deity.
Giovanni Boccaccio
#13. Heaven would indeed be heaven if lovers were there permitted as much enjoyment as they had experienced on earth.
Giovanni Boccaccio
#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. First Rule of Acting: Whatever happens, look as if it were intended.
Arthur Bloch
#17. 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
#19. Nothing is so indecent that it cannot be said to another person if the proper words are used to convey it.
Giovanni Boccaccio
#20. I think we're lucky to be living when we are, because things are going to get worse.
David Attenborough
#21. Kissed mouth don't lose its fortune, on the contrary it renews itself just as the moon does.
Giovanni Boccaccio
#23. It's better to repent what you enjoyed than to repent not having enjoyed anything.
Giovanni Boccaccio
#24. In the best of relationships you have two people who cannot think of anything that was not part of the deal.
Robert Breault
#25. Fiammetta, whose wavy tresses fell in a flood of gold over her white and delicate shoulders
Giovanni Boccaccio
#26. No-thing less splendid than a golden sepulchre would have suited so noble a heart.
Giovanni Boccaccio
