Inferno Canto Quotes

#1. I love to doubt as well as know."
~ Dante's Inferno, Canto XI, 93: "non men che saver, dubbiar m'aggrata.

Dante Alighieri

#2. She was always threatening rain; he had been born with an umbrella in his hand.

Michael Chabon

#3. Cash or check, cash or check. Cash is better than check. Check, check, check, have a bowl of checkers, but keep a plate for chess.

Mary E. Warner

#4. I let the audience use their imaginations. Can I help it if they misconstrue my suggestions?

Ernst Lubitsch

#5. Janie full of that oldest human longing - self-revelation.

Zora Neale Hurston

#6. Someone somewhere may be one of the most important person to you currently but you will always be nothing more than a backup plan to them.

Lik Hock Yap

#7. The term 'cost shifting,' as I use it, refers to those items in a university's budget that used to be reimbursed by the federal government but are no longer paid for by them.

Charles Vest

#8. The man who lies asleep will never waken fame, and his desire and all his life drift past him like a dream, and the traces of his memory fade from time like smoke in air, or ripples on a stream.

Dante Alighieri

#9. It's a constant process for me to learn to take the time to really understand what hurt me and how best to address it or respond. I tend to be reactionary, and that doesn't help me or others. I do try to keep my heart open.

Laura Regan

#10. The more a thing is perfect, the more it feels pleasure and pain.

Dante Alighieri

#11. Even a broken heart doesn't warrant a waste of good paper.

Dodie Smith

#12. They yearn for what they fear for.

Dante Alighieri

#13. There, pride, avarice, and envy are the tongues men know and heed, a Babel of depsair

Dante Alighieri

#14. Never underestimate a well-dressed bimbo.

Karen Marie Moning

#15. Oh blind, oh ignorant, self-seeking cupidity whcih spurs as so in the short mortal life and steeps as through all eternity.

Dante Alighieri

#16. Speech is the body part of thinking, the voice of the mind. Writing is the blood and mind mixing to speak through the fingers, through the hands.

Lenora Champagne

#17. You can't map a sense of humor. Anyway, what is a fantasy map but a space beyond which There Be Dragons? On the Discworld we know that There Be Dragons Everywhere. They might not all have scales and forked tongues, but they Be Here all right, grinning and jostling and trying to sell you souvenirs.

Terry Pratchett

#18. We believe that black holes collapse to rings hitting very fast. If you follow through the ring you don't die. The mathematics says you fall straight through, perhaps to another universe.

Michio Kaku

#19. What we call public opinion is generally public sentiment.

Benjamin Disraeli

#20. Scientific advancement carries risk. It always has. Space programs, genetic research, medicine - they all make mistakes. Science needs to survive its own blunders, at any cost. For everyone's sake.

Dan Brown

#21. HELEN HAYES: "Which part of The Divine Comedy do you like the most, Tiziano?"
TIZIANO CONTI: "The fifth Canto."
HELEN HAYES: "The Hell, huh?"
TIZIANO CONTI: "L'inferno depicts the truth.

Merce Cardus

#22. Never in all her life had she imagined that this idolized millinery could look, to those who paid for it, like the decorations of an insane monkey.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman