Castiglione Courtier Quotes & Sayings

Nothing is rarer than true good nature; they who are reputed to have it are generally only pliant or weak. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art. — Friedrich Nietzsche

It is a great privilege to be able to work with, and I suppose work off, my feelings through sculpture. — Louise Bourgeois

There are a number of writers who believe it is their duty to throw as many curve balls at the reader as possible. To twist and twist again. These are the Chubby Checkers of crime fiction and, while I admire the craft, I think that it can actually work against genuine suspense. — Mark Billingham

If you come as softly
as the wind within the trees.
You may hear what I hear.
See what sorrow sees.
If you come as lightly
as threading dew,
I will take you gladly,
nor ask more of you. — Jacqueline Woodson

I would like to sit still for a while but I'm restless you know and sitting still is only an ideal like celibacy and complete cleanliness. — John Steinbeck

Amantium irae amoris integratio est
A Latin saying that means
Lovers' quarrels are the renewal of love — Janet Aylmer

No creature should ever be trapped against its will," she used to say. "It will ruin itself, just trying to escape. — Susan Wiggs

I have not changed much. I haven't gotten a big ego or anything. — Helio Castroneves

Then the soul, freed from vice, purged by studies of true philosophy, versed in spiritual life, and practised in matters of the intellect, devoted to the contemplation of her own substance, as if awakened from deepest sleep, opens those eyes which all possess but few use, and sees in herself a ray of that light which is the true image of the angelic beauty communicated to her, and of which she then communicates a faint shadow to the body. — Baldassare Castiglione

I love being a troubadour. I travel around the world with my wife and play little theaters. We have a ball. — Roger McGuinn

Fear was about possibilities. Not things that had happened. Things that might — Michael Grant

Strengths are not activities you're good at, they're activities that strengthen you. A strength is an activity that before you're doing it you look forward to doing it; while you're doing it, time goes by quickly and you can concentrate; after you've done it, it seems to fulfill a need of yours. — Marcus Buckingham