Pietro Aretino
Pietro Aretino
Pietro Aretinowas an Italian author, playwright, poet, satirist and blackmailer who wielded immense influence on contemporary art and politics and invented modern literate pornography...
NationalityItalian
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth20 April 1492
CountryItaly
Pietro Aretino quotes about
motivational kings responsibility
I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.
quota renown
Even when I'm railed at, I get my quota of renown.
should ashamed should-i
Why should I be ashamed to describe what nature was not ashamed to create?
spring winter genius
Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.
anger pride men
Angry men are blind and foolish, for reason at such time takes flight and, in her absence; wrath plunders all the riches of the intellect, while the judgment remains the prisoner of its own pride.
taken men honor
A man who permits his honor to be taken, permits his life to be taken.
spring wine winter
And there is quite a different sort of conversation around a fire than there is in the shadow of a beech tree.... Four dry logs have in them all the circumstance necessary to a conversation of four or five hours, with chestnuts on the plate and a jug of wine between the legs. Yes, let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.
friendship true-friend real-friends
I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.
home men want
Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want to get something out of them, otherwise you'll come home to me with a full belly and an empty purse.
kings heart son
With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of a courtesan; it may be so, but I have the heart of a King. I live free, I enjoy myself, I can call myself happy.
anger mind desire
Anger represents a certain power, when a great mind, prevented from executing its own generous desires, is moved by it.
sex lunch desire
Desire is poison at lunch and wormwood at dinner; your bed is a stone, friendship is hateful and your fancy is always fixed on one thing.
scholarship property disagreeable
Learning is the property of those who fear to do disagreeable things.
bells cymbals madness
Poetry is a whim of Nature in her lighter moods; it requires nothing but its own madness and, lacking that, it becomes a soundless cymbal, a belfry without a bell.