"If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell……" — Pietro Aretino
"If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them."
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35 Quotes by Pietro Aretino
Pietro Aretino has 35 quotes on this site.
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I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth…
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I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.
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A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the…
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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is…
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Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if…
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Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.
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Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood.
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I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let…
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With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the…
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The art of war is like the art of the courtesan; indeed they might be called sisters, since both are…
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Flee laziness which while it produces an immediate delight, ends in the sorrow of repentance. And know that nature without…
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Life is a toy made of glass; it appears to be of inestimable price, but in reality it is very…
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More Annoy Quotes
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People who don't take care of their drums really annoy me.
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It's inevitable that if you do okay on something like that you don't just annoy people, that it will make…
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I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.
— Fred Allen
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The government is mainly an expensive organization to regulate evildoers, and tax those who behave: government does little for fairly…
— E. W. Howe
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The concerts you enjoy together/ Neighbors you annoy together/ Children you destroy together,/ That keep marriage in tact.
— Stephen Sondheim
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I want war. To me all means will be right. My motto is not "Don't, whatever you do, annoy the…
— Adolf Hitler
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Get out into the sunlight-out where everything is-with a vibration that is so dominant that those who annoy you, those…
— Esther Hicks
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I have told you of the Spaniard who always put on his spectacles when about to eat cherries, that they…
— Robert Southey
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If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing.
— Kingsley Amis
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What, more petitions! Won't you be, and stay, intimidated? You must really annoy Sen. Dodd. Here it is [my signature],…
— Edward Condon
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Things that annoy me end up fuelling my ideas.
— Josh James
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Thanksgiving. It's like we didn't even try to come up with a tradition. The tradition is, we overeat. 'Hey, how…
— Jim Gaffigan
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