Italian Medieval Poetry Quotes & Sayings

I myself owe everything to French books. They developed in my soul the sentiments of humanity which had been stifled by eight years of fanatical and servile education. — Cesare Beccaria

There is no greater sorrow
Than to recall a happy time
When miserable. — Dante Alighieri

This is the biggest mistake I could think would save me. I wanted to give up the idea that I had any control. Shake things up. To be saved by chaos. To see if I could cope, I wanted to force myself to grow again. To explode my comfort zone. — Chuck Palahniuk

A day should be your controlling and managing factor — Sunday Adelaja

The three quarters began. The first note sounded, measured and tranquil, serenely peremptory, emptying the unhurried silence for the next one and that's it if people could only change one another forever that way merge like a flame swirling up for an instant then blown cleanly out along the cool eternal dark instead of lying there trying not to think of the swing until all cedars came to have that vivid dead smell of perfume that Benjy hated so. — William Faulkner

Cheese is good. And Britain, despite the grumblings of the French and the outrage of the Swiss, not to mention some plucky challenges from Italy, Austria, and Spain, has some of the best cheese in the world. We're world leaders in cheese. — Nick Harkaway

I think it's great when girls are artistic. — Henry Thomas

Editing is like walking across a room strewn with rose petals and thorns. When you can walk across mostly unbloodied, you're finished. — Richard Due

Be content to love, to dazzle in the light,
If only for moments ...
And then be gone,
With gladness in your heart,
Before the creeping shadows
Claim too much your sadness at leaving. — Scott Hastie

Without knowing exactly what, I knew that the fire was something that had to do with the meaning. I decided I wasn't going to forget it, no matter what happened. No matter that the fire wasn't something that could be added to the heap, or that I was ever going to be able to explain in any way to Pierre Anthon. — Janne Teller

I think I will sit on it a little while longer," said the duck, "as I have sat so long already, a few days will be nothing." "Please yourself," said the old duck, and she went away. — Hans Christian Andersen

I felt for the tormented whirlwinds
Damned for their carnal sins
Committed when they let their passions rule their reason. — Dante Alighieri

B is for Breasts Of which ladies have two; Once prized for the function, Now for the view. — Robert Smith

Basically, anything a sexual predator might do to woo a small suburban girl, I was trying, — Lena Dunham