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.
spring winter genius
Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.
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.
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.
milk-and-honey ears flattery
Perfumed and gallant words make our ears belch.
milk-and-honey ears flattery
There is no food more satiating than milk and honey; and just as such foods produce disgust for the palate, so perfumed and gallant words make our ears belch.