Vittorio Alfieri

Count Vittorio Alfieri (16 January 1749 – 8 October 1803) was an Italian dramatist, considered the "founder of Italian tragedy".

Quotes





 * Volli, sempre volli, fortissimamente volli.
 * I willed, and always willed, and strongly willed.
 * Risposta dell'autore alla lettera di Ranieri de' Calzabigi, 1783


 * Non nella pena, Nel delitto è la infamia.
 * Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime.
 * Antigone, I, 3; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 148.


 * Usurpator diffida Di tutti sempre.
 * A usurper always distrusts the whole world.
 * Polinice, III, 2; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 197.


 * A giurar presti i mentitor son sempre.
 * Liars are always most disposed to swear.
 * Virginia, II, 3; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 485.


 * Ove son leggi, Tremar non dee chi leggi non infranse.
 * Where there are laws, he who has not broken them need not tremble.
 * Virginia, II, 1; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 430.


 * J'avais vu les grands, mais je n'avais pas vu les petits.
 * I had seen the great, but I had not seen the small.
 * Reason for Changing his Democratic Opinions; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 93.


 * Alta vendetta D'alto silenzio è figlia.
 * Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep silence.
 * La Congiura de' Pazzi, I, 1; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 707.


 * D'uomo è il fallir, ma dal malvagio il buono Scerne il dolor del fallo.
 * To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked.
 * Rosmunda, III, 1; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 665.


 * Sempre il miglior non è il parer primiero.
 * First thoughts are not always the best.
 * Don Garzia, III, 1; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 787.


 * Spesso è da forte, Più che il morire, il vivere.
 * Ofttimes the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die.
 * Oreste, IV, 2; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 440.


 * Che amar chi t'odia, ell'è impossibil cosa.
 * For 'tis impossible Hate to return with love.
 * Polinice, II, 4; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 464.