Boccaccio's Quotes

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#2. It's your birthday today, so what would you say, if we turned that frown upside down

Billie Jean King

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

Giovanni Boccaccio

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

Giovanni Boccaccio

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

Giovanni Boccaccio

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. There aren't too many people out there who can start one of my books and not finish it. I don't think too many writers can say that.

Joy Fielding

#9. 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

#10. No-one understood. No-one. Least of all - me.

Malorie Blackman

#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. If I read our story backwards, it's about how I un-broke your heart, and then we were happy until one day, you forgot about me forever.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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

Giovanni Boccaccio

#15. 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

#16. The good news may be that Nature is phasing out the white man, but the bad news is that's who She thinks we all are.

Alice Walker

#17. Teachers may think they are stuffing minds, but all they are ever affecting is the memory. Nothing can ever be forced into anyone's mind except by brainwashing, which is the very opposite of genuine teaching.

Mortimer Adler

#18. 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

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

Giovanni Boccaccio

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

Giovanni Boccaccio

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

Giovanni Boccaccio

#22. Our people should feel free to express diverse views, pursue unconventional ideas or simply be different.

Lee Hsien Loong

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

Giovanni Boccaccio

#24. In whatever you are doing, be one: body, soul, mind. Do it beautifully and with purity.

B.K.S. Iyengar

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

Giovanni Boccaccio

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

Giovanni Boccaccio

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

Giovanni Boccaccio

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

Giovanni Boccaccio