Quotes About Dante And Beatrice

#1. She wanted to be someone's muse - to be worshipped and adored, body and soul. She wanted to play Beatrice to a dashing and noble Dante and to inhabit Paradise with him forever. And to live a life that would rival the beauty of Botticelli's illustrations.

Sylvain Reynard

#2. Your mind burns a lot of calories. Writing can feel like a physical workout.

Philipp Meyer

#3. You found me in my lonely labyrinth and like Beatrice, led me out of my own hell ...

John Geddes

#4. As at those words did I myself become;
And all my love was so absorbed in Him,
That in oblivion Beatrice was eclipsed.

Dante Alighieri

#5. Ink to parchment, words to paper, glory to Beatrice.

Dante Alighieri

#6. While the everlasting pleasure, that did full On Beatrice shine, with second view From her fair countenance my gladden'd soul Contented; vanquishing me with a beam Of her soft smile, she spake: Turn thee, and list. These eyes are not thy only Paradise.

Dante Alighieri

#7. Church of painful love - unfulfilled,unrequited & unattained

Dan Brown

#8. If I produce a 450-pound Bengal tiger, it's going to create a lot more wonder than if I produce a rabbit.

Doug Henning

#9. There is generally no such thing as duty to the people who do it. They simply take life as it comes, meeting, not, shirking its demands, whether pleasant or unpleasant; and that is pretty much all there is of it.

Mary Abigail Dodge

#10. According to FBI statistics, false accusations of rape are no more common than for other crimes.
Different Crimes, Different Criminals: Understanding, Treating and Preventing Criminal Behavior, p109

Doris Layton MacKenzie

#11. Be checked for silence,
But never taxed for speech.

William Shakespeare