Manzoni Quotes & Sayings

One the advantages about this life is that you can hate someone without knowing him — Alessandro Manzoni

God doesn't start miracles without finishing them. — Alessandro Manzoni

Human beings tend to be unable to estimate how biased they are. — Jean-Francois Manzoni

Bullies, oppressors and all men who do violence to the rights of others are guilty not only of their own crimes, but also of the corruption they bring into the hearts of their victims. — Alessandro Manzoni

I would really like, in fact, to be born again in another two hundred years' time. — Alessandro Manzoni

When a friend, then, indulges in the joy unburdening a secret on to another friend's bosom, he makes the latter, in his turn, feel the urge to taste the same joy himself. — Alessandro Manzoni

Certainly the heart has always something to tell about the future to those who listen to it. But what does the heart know? Scarce a little of what has already happened. — Alessandro Manzoni

Music does not express any idea, but it gives rise to thousands. — Alessandro Manzoni

A benefit of friendship is knowing whom to tell secrets to. — Alessandro Manzoni

Alessandro Manzoni, who based his conception on a different awareness of Christianity and of the mechanisms governing the mob and desire. As a young man Nietzsche admired Manzoni's masterpiece I promessi sposi [The Betrothed]; at least, he said so, though the results are not apparent.63 Girard, however, was not thinking about what Nietzsche actually produced, so much as what he came across by chance as his whaler ploughed through far northern seas. In that sense he was a genuine explorer — Giuseppe Fornari

Let us offer our hearts, wretched and empty as they are, to God, that He may be pleased to fill them with that charity which amends the past, which ensures the future, which fears and trusts, weeps and rejoices in its knowledge; which becomes in every instance the virtue of which we stand in need. — Alessandro Manzoni

They settled the question, by deciding that misfortunes most commonly happen to us from our own misconduct or imprudence; but sometimes from causes independent of ourselves; that the most innocent and prudent conduct cannot always preserve us from them; and that, whether they arise from our own fault or not, trust in God softens them, and renders them useful in preparing us for a better life. — Alessandro Manzoni

The spring is the lovely time when we all hurry out in to the open to finally get to inhale fresh exhausts. — Carlo Manzoni