Top 74 Pietro Quotes
#1. Toccata by Pietro Domenico Paradisi - the one from his Sonata in A Major - come tripping out to meet me. The Toccata was my favorite composition; to my mind it was the greatest musical accomplishment in the entire history of the world, but I knew that if Ophelia found that out,
Alan Bradley
#2. Jesus Pietro wasn't used to dealing with ghosts. It would require brand new techniques. Grimly he set out to evolve them.
Larry Niven
#3. In Positano, I like the San Pietro Hotel, which is run by a friend whose family has owned the hotel for more than 100 years.
Ivana Trump
#4. Though he was scared even to look up, much less down, he raised his hands and caught the side of the gondola. With a stream of curse words known principally to the fourth class of the Accademia San Pietro in Rome, he pulled himself back.
Mark Helprin
#5. With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of a courtesan; it may be so, but I have the heart of a King. I live free, I enjoy myself, I can call myself happy.
Pietro Aretino
#6. Nothing, it appears to me, is of greater value in a man than the power of judgment; and the man who has it may be compared to a chest filled with books, for he is the son of nature and the father of art.
Pietro Aretino
#7. The art of war is like the art of the courtesan; indeed they might be called sisters, since both are slaves of desperation.
Pietro Aretino
#10. Though the Indian ocean abounds in rich and rare gems, it does not boast a clearer sky nor more unruffled sea. If there be a shore that dreads not the fury of the faithless billows, it is some poor and narrow inlet unknown to the winds.
Pietro Metastasio
#11. I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.
Pietro Aretino
#12. Anger represents a certain power, when a great mind, prevented from executing its own generous desires, is moved by it.
Pietro Aretino
#13. If our inward griefs were written on our brows, how many who are envied now would be pitied. It would seem that they had their deadliest foe in their own breast, and their whole happiness would be reduced to mere seeming.
Pietro Metastasio
#14. Why should the eyes be denied what delights them most?
Pietro Aretino
#15. Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other.
Pietro Metastasio
#16. Each of you resides in my heart, as i do in yours, for there is in truth only one heart. You are me. And i cherish you.
Pietro De La Luna
#17. It is by no means a fact that death is the worst of all evils; when it comes it is an alleviation to mortals who are worn out with sufferings.
Pietro Metastasio
#18. There are no perfect answers. The earnest search is all we can expect.
Pietro Belluschi
#19. If every man's internal care Were written on his brow, How many would our pity share Who raise our envy now?
Pietro Metastasio
#21. A man who permits his honor to be taken, permits his life to be taken.
Pietro Aretino
#22. How full of error is the judgment of mankind! They wonder at results when they are ignorant of the reasons
Pietro Metastasio
#24. Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want to get something out of them, otherwise you'll come home to me with a full belly and an empty purse.
Pietro Aretino
#25. If I announce the armistice and the Americans don't send sufficient reinforcements and don't land near Rome, the Germans will seize the city and put in a puppet fascist government.
Pietro Badoglio
#26. We are like vessels tossed on the bosom of the deep; our passions are the winds that sweep us impetuously forward; each pleasure is a rock; the whole life is a wide ocean. Reason is the pilot to guide us, but often allows itself to be led astray by the storms of pride.
Pietro Metastasio
#27. Sharp and fell remorse, the offspring of my sin! Why do you, O God, lacerate my heart so late? Why, O boding cries, that scream so close to me,
why do I listen to you now, and never heard you before?
Pietro Metastasio
#28. He who has not been at a tavern knows not what a paradise it is. O holy tavern! O miraculous tavern!
holy, because no carking cares are there, nor weariness, nor pain; and miraculous, because of the spits, which themselves turn round and round!
Pietro Aretino
#29. There are three degrees of comparison: stupido, stupidissimo, and tenore.
Pietro Mascagni
#30. Prepare thy soul calmly to obey; such offering will be more acceptable to God than every other sacrifice.
Pietro Metastasio
#31. It is the just decree of Heaven that a traitor never sees his danger till his ruin is at hand.
Pietro Metastasio
#33. I am curious to see what happens in the next world to one who dies unshriven.
Pietro Perugino
#34. I was little impressed with this rough and ready way of persuading people to renew their contracts and decided that I was now quite free of any obligations.
Pietro Mascagni
#35. If you wish to behold God, you may see Him in every object around; search in your breast, and you will find Him there. And if you do not yet perceive where He dwells, confute me, if you can, and say where He is not.
Pietro Metastasio
#37. What evil is there in seeing a man possess a woman? Why, the beasts would be more free than we!
Pietro Aretino
#38. Life is a toy made of glass; it appears to be of inestimable price, but in reality it is very cheap.
Pietro Aretino
#39. If the internal griefs of every man could be read, written on his forehead, how many who now excite envy would appear to be the objects of pity?
Pietro Metastasio
#40. If we want know the meaning of existence, we must open a book: over there, in the darkest chapter, there's a sentence written especially for us.
Pietro Citati
#41. We never could design a building as beautiful as the trees.
Pietro Belluschi
#43. Poetry is a whim of Nature in her lighter moods; it requires nothing but its own madness and, lacking that, it becomes a soundless cymbal, a belfry without a bell.
Pietro Aretino
#45. I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.
Pietro Aretino
#46. The canker which the trunk conceals is revealed by the leaves, the fruit, or the flower.
Pietro Metastasio
#47. If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them.
Pietro Aretino
#48. Desire is poison at lunch and wormwood at dinner; your bed is a stone, friendship is hateful and your fancy is always fixed on one thing.
Pietro Aretino
#49. Love doesn't hide. It stays and fights. It goes the distance, that's why love is so strong. So it can carry you all the way home.
Pietro Aretino
#50. Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood.
Pietro Aretino
#51. Why should I be ashamed to describe what nature was not ashamed to create?
Pietro Aretino
#52. The best thing for a man to do is to be born and, being born, to die at once.
Pietro Aretino
#53. When Mussolini decided on war he did not take my advice or that of any other Army chief. In August 1939 the Duce had not been so sure about the invincibility of the Germans, and he told us that he had sought to persuade Hitler not to act.
Pietro Badoglio
#55. The eye that gazes upon the sun sees not the orb it looks upon, confounded by the excess of its brightness.
Pietro Metastasio
#56. The Germans will make a few scattered attacks, then go away. The Romans will enjoy a fine September.
Pietro Badoglio
#57. There is no food more satiating than milk and honey; and just as such foods produce disgust for the palate, so perfumed and gallant words make our ears belch.
Pietro Aretino
#58. I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.
Pietro Aretino
#59. Learning is the property of those who fear to do disagreeable things.
Pietro Aretino
#60. Love is a feeling that comes into our hearts of our own choice for neither force nor harshness can limit the heart's freedom.
Pietro Metastasio
#61. Nature without exercise is a seed shut up in a pod, and art without practice is nothing.
Pietro Aretino
#62. To be truly free, it takes more determination, courage, introspection, and restraint than to be in shackles.
Pietro Belluschi
#64. The pilot who is always dreading a rock or a tempest must not complain if he remain a poor fisherman. We must at times trust, something to fortune, for fortune has often some share in what happens.
Pietro Metastasio
#65. The room where I am lodging is stupendous. Thank God I am as fit as a fiddle.
Pietro Mascagni
#66. The aged oak upon the steep stands more firm and secure if assailed by angry winds; for if the winter bares its head, the more strongly it strikes its roots into the ground, acquiring strength as it loses beauty.
Pietro Metastasio
#67. Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.
Pietro Aretino
#69. Fortune is the best school of courage when she is fraught with anger, in the same way as winds and tempests are the school of the sailorboy.
Pietro Metastasio
#70. 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
#71. A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart.
Pietro Aretino
#72. Of all faults the greatest is the excess of impious terror, dishonoring divine grace. He who despairs wants love, wants faith; for faith, hope, and love are three torches which blend their light together, nor does the one shine without the other.
Pietro Metastasio
#73. Angry men are blind and foolish, for reason at such time takes flight and, in her absence; wrath plunders all the riches of the intellect, while the judgment remains the prisoner of its own pride.
Pietro Aretino
#74. They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.
Pietro Aretino
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