Contrition Quotes by Vittorio Alfieri

The time for hope is gone, and come for fear.

— Vittorio Alfieri

The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who lays the plot.

— Vittorio Alfieri

Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime.

— Vittorio Alfieri

Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime.

— Vittorio Alfieri

If ardent passions push not men on to lofty enterprise, calm wisdom never will accomplish it.

— Vittorio Alfieri

Joy surfeited turns to sorrow.

— Vittorio Alfieri

Necessity inspires the fatal thought.

— Vittorio Alfieri

Liars are always most disposed to swear.

— Vittorio Alfieri

That blood which thou hast spill'd, should join you closely in an eternal bond.

— Vittorio Alfieri

For 'tis impossible Hate to return with love.

— Vittorio Alfieri

I had seen the great, but I had not seen the small.

— Vittorio Alfieri

Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep silence.

— Vittorio Alfieri

First thoughts are not always the best.

— Vittorio Alfieri

Ofttimes the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die.

— Vittorio Alfieri

There is a silence, the child of love, which expresses everything, and proclaims more loudly than the tongue is able to do; there are…

— Vittorio Alfieri