Best Dante Quotes
78 Dante quotes by 64 unique authors
-
And here Dante describes an evidently spherical world... "The lamp of the world [the sun] rises to mortals through different passages; but through that which…
— Dante Alighieri
-
Dante.Oh,Dante.Seal me!Seal me so hard!.He grabs my hips andpumps his toward mine.Oh,Dante! You're so hot when you seal souls.I shove my idiot-of-a-best-friend off me and…
— Victoria Scott
-
We must beware of the Past, mustn't we? I mean that any fixing of the mind on old evils beyond what is absolutely necessary for…
— C.S. Lewis
-
You have set up in New York Harbor a monstrous idol which you call Liberty. The only thing that remains to complete that monument is…
— George Bernard Shaw
-
Dante can be understood only within the context of Italian thought, and Faust would be unthinkable if divorced from its German background; but both are…
— Gustav Stresemann
-
Dante Alighieri is a universal poet, and great creators, they are writing for everybody always. Every single verse is very moving, and the beauty -…
— Roberto Benigni
-
The greatest artists, saints, philosophers, and, until quite recent times, scientists... have all assumed that the New Testament promise of eternal life is valid.... I'd…
— Malcolm Muggeridge
-
Purple lilies Dante blew To a larger bubble with his prophet breath.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
-
If Dante was writing The Divine Comedy in 2013, he might very well have set part of it in the suburbs.
— Joshua Mohr
-
Fish seem to be rather conservative around this bay, one seldom catches enough to form the fundamental basis for a lie. Dante left out one…
— Thomas A. Edison
-
In Scripture the visitation of an angel is always alarming; it has to begin by saying 'Fear not.' The Victorian angel looks as if it…
— Kathryn Lindskoog
-
Even when I feared and detested Christianity, I was struck by its essential unity, which, in spite of its divisions, it has never lost. I…
— C.S. Lewis
-
Not like Homer would I write, Not like Dante if I might, Not like Shakespeare at his best, Not like Goethe or the rest, Like…
— William Allingham
-
The beast for me is greed. Whether you read Dante, Swift, or any of these guys, it always boils down to the same thing: the…
— Ben Nicholson
-
Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never saw the place. I wrote about Chicago after looking the…
— Carl Sandburg
-
In the literature of France Moliere occupies the same kind of position as Cervantes in that of Spain, Dante in that of Italy, and Shakespeare…
— Lytton Strachey
-
Law of the jungle. The betrayee gets to eat the betrayer. --Dante Pontis
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
-
Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is dry bones.
— Ray Bradbury
-
I hate journalists. There is nothing in them but tittering jeering emptiness. They have all made what Dante calls the Great Refusal. The shallowest people…
— William Butler Yeats
-
Come t'e' picciol fallo amaro morso! Dante. What grievous pain a little fault doth give thee!
— Madeleine L'Engle
-
This is insane," I said blankly. "I'm the instrument of an all-powerful primordial deity's wave of chaos and destruction." "That's kind of extreme" said Dante…
— Richelle Mead
-
I disconnected as a sleepy Seth stepped out of the bedroom. “Who’s Dante? Was that a collect call to the Inferno?” “They won’t accept the…
— Richelle Mead
-
Viper: "The dark wizard and I had a mild disagreement." Dante: "What sort of disagreement?" Viper: "I thought he should be dead and he disagreed.
— Alexandra Ivy
-
Let me guess. The big one is due in on the north shore? (Dante) Yes. So let’s make this quick. I have a board, a…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
-
If they can’t survive alone for four days once a year, they deserve to die. (Acheron) That’s harsh, for you. (Dante) Harsh? Tell you what,…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
More Ways to Read Dante Quotes
Who Wrote These Dante Quotes
64 authors contributed a total of 78 Dante Quotes, led by these top contributors: