Boccaccio Quotes
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Fiammetta, whose wavy tresses fell in a flood of gold over her white and delicate shoulders
— Giovanni Boccaccio
In this world, you only get what you grab for.
— Giovanni Boccaccio
It's better to repent what you enjoyed than to repent not having enjoyed anything.
— Giovanni Boccaccio
Much is required of those who are happy, especially if they have needed comforting in the past, and have received it.
— Giovanni Boccaccio
People tend to believe the bad rather than the good.
— Giovanni Boccaccio
The same fact that Boccaccio offers in support of religion might be adduced in behalf of a republic: It exists in spite of its ministers.
— Heinrich Heine
Heaven would indeed be heaven if lovers were there permitted as much enjoyment as they had experienced on earth.
— Giovanni Boccaccio
Do as we say, and not as we do
— Giovanni Boccaccio
No-thing less splendid than a golden sepulchre would have suited so noble a heart.
— Giovanni Boccaccio
Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy
— Giovanni Boccaccio
In the affairs of this world, poverty alone is without envy.
— Giovanni Boccaccio
Kissed mouth don't lose its fortune, on the contrary it renews itself just as the moon does.
— Giovanni Boccaccio
My mind is wholly possessed by Love, who rules every part there of, in virtue of his all-embracing deity.
— Giovanni Boccaccio
Nothing is so indecent that it cannot be said to another person if the proper words are used to convey it.
— Giovanni Boccaccio
While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman.
— Giovanni Boccaccio
I am one who could have forgotten the plague, listening to Boccaccio's stories; and I am not ashamed of it.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning