Italian Playwright Quotes

Carlo Goldoni

Italo Svevo

Plautus

Pietro Aretino

Bernardo Dovizi

Francesco Dall'Ongaro

Girolamo Gigli

He who talks much cannot always talk well.

The best thing for a man to do is to be born and, being born, to die at once.

Because those, who twit others with their faults, should look at home.

Woman over money is like the sun upon ice, which is all the time: melting and consuming it.

Bernardo Dovizi

Everyone tends to remember the past with greater fervor as the present gains greater importance.

When the ground is soft
It may be worked with any kind of tool.

Giovanni Maria Cecchi

Free is the vote, the right inviolate,
But victory falls to him whose aim is straight.

Francesco Dall'Ongaro

It is better to wear rags in honesty than brocade in dishonor.

The man of mark is never appreciated, either in his lifetime or in his own country.

Camillo Federici