39 Quotes by Pietro Aretino

Why should the eyes be denied what delights them most?

What evil is there in seeing a man possess a woman? Why, the beasts would be more free than we!

Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood.

Perfumed and gallant words make our ears belch.

The best thing for a man to do is to be born and, being born, to die at once.

There is no food more satiating than milk and honey; and just as such foods produce disgust for the palate, so perfumed and gallant words make our ears belch.

Age has a good mind and sorry shanks.

We are the buffoons of our children.

Poetry is a whim of Nature in her lighter moods; it requires nothing but its own madness and, lacking that, it becomes a soundless cymbal, a belfry without a bell.