Top 16 Quotes & Sayings by Giovanni Ruffini

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Italian poet Giovanni Ruffini.

Last updated on December 18, 2024.

Giovanni Ruffini was an Italian writer and patriot of the early 19th century. He is chiefly known for having written the draft of the libretto of the opera Don Pasquale for its composer Gaetano Donizetti.

Italian - Poet | September 20, 1807 - November 3, 1881

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Offended self-love never forgives.

Giovanni Ruffini

Rank and riches are chains of gold, but still chains.

Giovanni Ruffini

All papas and mammas have exactly that sort of sight which distinguishes objects at a distance clearly, while they need spectacles to see those under their very noses.

Giovanni Ruffini

The perception of the beautiful is gradual, and not a lightning revelation; it requires not only time, but some study.

Giovanni Ruffini

Beauty is an exquisite flower, and its perfume is virtue.

Giovanni Ruffini

Travelers describe a tree in the island of Java whose pestiferous exhalations blight every tiny blade of grass within the compass of its shade. So it is with despotism.

Giovanni Ruffini

Trifling favors are readily acknowledged, though cheaply esteemed; but important ones are most rarely remembered.

Giovanni Ruffini

Stories first heard standing at a mother's knee, are never wholly forgotten, — a little spring that never quite dries up in our journey through scorching years.

Giovanni Ruffini

A human heart is a skein of such imperceptibly and subtly interwoven threads that even the owner of it is often himself at a loss how to unravel it.

Giovanni Ruffini

The teacher is like the candle which lights others in consuming itself.

Giovanni Ruffini