Marriage is a sacrament which I detest... Because it is the tomb of love.

Giacomo Casanova

More information about this quote

Topic

Fading love Love Marriage

Author

Giacomo Casanova

Source

Histoire de Ma Vie

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

Italian

Time

1838 1830s 19th century

Occupation

Writer

From

Italy Europe

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Casanova, Giacomo. Histoire de ma vie [History of My Life]. 1838.

Current Citation

Casanova, Giacomo. History of My Life. Translated by William R. Trask. Everyman's Library, 2007, vol. 9, ch. 8.

Related Quotes

Below are one or more quotes that share at least one tag with the quote at the top of the page

Another quote from the 1830s

I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject I do not wish to think, or speak, or write, with moderation. No! No! Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; but urge me not to use moderation.

William Lloyd Garrison

To the Public

More information about this quote
Topic
Moderation

Author

William Lloyd Garrison
Source
To the Public The Liberator
Medium
Essay Newspaper
Language
English
Time
1831 1830s 19th century

Another quote about Marriage

These men and women...ask for equal dignity in the eyes of the law. The Constitution grants them that right.

Anthony Kennedy

Obergefell v. Hodges

Read this opinion at supreme.justia.com.
More information about this quote
Topic
Marriage Constitutional law Gay rights Equal rights American politics
Medium
Supreme Court opinion Legal opinion
Genre
Legal writing
Language
English
Time
2015 2010s 21st century

Another quote originally in Italian

When I had journeyed half of our life's way,
I found myself within a shadowed forest,
for I had lost the path that does not stray.

Dante Alighieri

Inferno

Buy Inferno at Amazon Buy Inferno at Amazon
Read the Divine Comedy at Project Gutenberg
More information about this quote

Author

Dante Alighieri
Source
Inferno The Divine Comedy
Medium
Poem
Genre
Narrative poem Epic poem Religious literature
Statement Type
Opening lines
Language
Italian
Time
1321 1320s 14th century
Era
Middle Ages