Top 24 Dante Italian Quotes
#1. Such is the nature and make-up of the French that they are only good at the start. Then they are worse than devils, but, given time, they're less than women.
Francois Rabelais
#2. Dante can be understood only within the context of Italian thought, and Faust would be unthinkable if divorced from its German background; but both are part of our common cultural heritage.
Gustav Stresemann
#3. Something broke in me that night. It has stopped being a game and is now a reality. The Burn List is the only way I know to escape my past, my means to forget.
It's simple; I want revenge.
Calia Read
#4. It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us.
[Italian: Necessita c'induce, e non diletto.]
Dante Alighieri
#6. I am getting rather astonishing in my Italian conversation. I believe I talk a mixture of Dante and the worst modern slang.
Oscar Wilde
#7. His (Islamic astronomer al-Farghani) legacy also endures through the Italian writer and poet Dante (1265-1321), who derived most of the astronomical knowledge he included in his DIVINE COMEDY from the writings of al-Farghani (whom he referred to by his Latin name, Alfraganus).
Jim Al-Khalili
#9. You create your own reality.
Seth
#10. [ ... ]Are both of you ... ?"
"Manscaped?" Dante smiled. "I'm fucking Italian; I been mowing my lawn since I was thirteen.
Damon Suede
#11. There is no greater sorrow
Than to recall a happy time
When miserable.
Dante Alighieri
#12. What about the motorcycle parts?"
"Those belong to my sort-of boyfriend. He's in Italy right now, visiting his family, and I like to have the mess around to remind me of him."
"Oh. So that's why Dante in Italian."
She blushed and looked away. "No. That's why the Italian boyfriend.
Kat Richardson
#13. the drama below and the drama above could easily collide at any moment
Ana Chapman
#15. I don't regret any of the musical decisions I have made.
Dwight Yoakam
#16. I felt for the tormented whirlwinds
Damned for their carnal sins
Committed when they let their passions rule their reason.
Dante Alighieri
#17. My culture is my identity and personality. It gives me spiritual, intellectual and Emotional distinction from others, and I am proud of it.
M.F. Moonzajer
#18. I really had wanted to learn Italian for a long time. I think ever since - or even maybe even before I had read Dante. And I just sort of had this idea that I wanted to read Dante in Italian. And then in my office, we actually had a class - an Italian class.
Ann Goldstein
#19. For that you should read the original. In very great poetry the music often comes through even when one doesn't know language. I loved Dante passionately before I knew a word of Italian.
Donna Tartt
#20. I think of myself as a meat-and-potatoes kind of director.
Stanley Donen
#21. Without vision, even the most focused passion is a battery without a device.
Ken Auletta
#22. Zach, we have to stop her!"
But Zach just held me. He looked at me with shock and awe and just a little bit of wonder. In spite of everything, I thought that he might laugh.
"Gallagher Girl," he told me, "you are the school.
Ally Carter
#24. I don't have any desire to learn. I feel it's like a voodoo, that it would spoil things if I actually learnt how things are done.
Paul McCartney
