Giovanni Boccaccio Quotes

Peccato celato e mezzo perdonato.

Dying more like animals than human beings.

Ogni giusto re primo servatore dee essere delle leggi fatte da lui.

An oak is not felled by a single blow of the axe.

Io ho inteso che un gallo basta assai bene a diece galline, ma che diece uomini posson male o con fatica una femina sodisfare.

Una boccuccia piccolina, le cui labbra parevan due rubinetti.

Non come uomini, ma quasi come bestie, morieno.

I have always been given to understand…that whereas a single cock is quite sufficient for ten hens, ten men are hard put to satisfy one woman.

A kissed mouth doesn't lose its freshness, for like the moon it always renews itself.

Ci cacciano in cucina a dir delle favole colla gatta.

He who is wicked and held to be good, can cheat because no one imagines he would.

Charming ladies, the beauty of a flock of white doves is better enhanced by a black crow than by a pure white swan.

It frequently happens that people grow tired of always eating the same food, and desire a change of diet.

Natural ragione è di ciascuno che ci nasce, la sua vita, quanto può, aiutare e conservare e difendere.

The deceived has the better of the deceiver.