Gabriele d'Annunzio famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.

  • One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

  • Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.

  • If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth.

  • Life is just a chance to grow a soul.

  • If you would be a better teacher, teach by the spirit. That is the thing that gives strength and power, meaning and life, to our otherwise weak efforts... remember, you cannot give away that which you do not possess. Study the life of the master. You do not have to have a college degree to be an efficient teacher. But you do have to become acquainted with the life and teachings of the master to be an effective teacher in the church.

  • Socrates famously said that the unconsidered life is not worth living. He meant that a life lived without forethought or principle is a life so vulnerable to chance, and so dependent on the choices and actions of others, that it is of little real value to the person living it. He further meant that a life well lived is one which has goals, and integrity, which is chosen and directed by the one who lives it, to the fullest extent possible to a human agent caught in the webs of society and history.

  • I have little shame, no dignity – all in the name of a better cause.

  • Who has not seen that feeling born of flame Crimson the cheek at mention of a name? The rapturous touch of some divine surpriseFlash deep suffusion of celestial dyes: When hands clasped hands, and lips to lips were pressed, And the heart's secret was at once confessed?

  • The question is not if the candidate's heart is favorable to Christianity, but if he has Christ as his starting point even for politics, and will speak out His name!