Rarely Quotes by Ludovico Ariosto

They think they have God Almighty by the toe.

— Ludovico Ariosto

“Ah, how I rue that what I could have done I did not do!”

— Ludovico Ariosto

Who seems most hideous when adorned the most.

— Ludovico Ariosto

When the devil grows old he turns hermit.

— Ludovico Ariosto

From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me.

— Ludovico Ariosto

Man proposes, and God disposes.

— Ludovico Ariosto

Cruelty ever proceeds from a vile mind, and often from a cowardly heart.

— Ludovico Ariosto

“This dog won’t hunt. This horse won’t jump. You get the general drift. However, he keeps on trying, but the fire won’t burn, the…

— Ludovico Ariosto

For rarely man escapes his destiny.

— Ludovico Ariosto

Such fire was not by water to be drown'd, Nor he his nature changed by changing ground. [Lat., Ne spegner puo per star nell'acqua…

— Ludovico Ariosto

Such fire was not by water to be drowned, nor he his nature changed by changing ground.

— Ludovico Ariosto

Nature made him, and then broke the mold.

— Ludovico Ariosto