What a man sees, Love can make invisible—and what is invisible, that can Love make him see.
Quotes from Orlando Furioso — Ludovico Ariosto
1474–1533 Italy
← All quotes by Ludovico Ariosto
14 quotes
Driven raving mad by love—and he a man who had been always esteemed for his great prudence.
Orlando Furioso (1532)
For rarely man escapes his destiny.
Orlando Furioso (1532)
Orlando Furioso (1532)
Reflect, ye gentle dames, that much they know,
Who gain experience from another's woe.
Orlando Furioso (1532)
Who seems most hideous when adorned the most.
Orlando Furioso (1532)
Such fire was not by water to be drowned,
Nor he his nature changed by changing ground.
Orlando Furioso (1532)
Of ladies, knights, of passions and of wars,
of courtliness, and of valiant deeds I sing.
Orlando Furioso (1532)
Such fire was not by water to be drown'd,
Nor he his nature changed by changing ground.
Orlando Furioso (1516)
There never was such beauty in another man.
Nature made him, and then broke the mould.
Orlando Furioso (1516)
But that he wrought so high the specious tale,
As manifested plainly 'twas a lie.
Orlando Furioso (1516)
Nature broke the mould
In which she cast him.
Orlando Furioso (1532)
Man proposes, and God disposes.
Orlando Furioso (1532)
Orlando Furioso (1532)
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ludovico Ariosto (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.