547 Quotes by Dante Alighieri

Uncouth tongues, horrible shriekings of despair, Shrill and faint voices, cries of pain and rage, And, with it all, smiting of hands, were there, Making a tumult, nothing could assuage, To swirl in the air that knows not day or night, Like sand withi

Love hath so long possessed me for his own And made his lordship so familiar.

To get back up to the shining world from there My guide and I went into that hidden tunnel, And Following its path, we took no care To rest, but climbed: he first, then I-so far, through a round aperture I saw appear Some of the beautiful things that Heaven bears, Where we came forth, and once more saw the stars.

Consider your origin; you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

If you're asking for a date, forget it. 'Cause I make it a point not to go out with women who shoot me in the head!

There is a place in Hell called the Malebolge....

Consider your origins: you were not made that you might live as brutes, but so as to follow virtue and knowledge

I'm beginning to think I've got rotten luck with women.

The greatest gift that God in His bounty made in creation, and the most conformable to His goodness, and that which He prizes the most, was the freedom of will, with which the creatures with intelligence, they all and they alone, were and are endowed.