Girolamo Gigli was an Italian writer and playwright.
“It is better to wear rags in honesty than brocade in dishonour.”
È meglio vestir cencio con leanza, che broccato con disonoranza.
La Sorellina di Pilone (1712), Act II, Sc. V. — (Credenza.)
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 294.
Il cielo chiude volentieri gli occhi a nostri difetti, quando non son fatti avanti gli occhi del mondo, e quando per mancanza di testimoni non possa compire perfettamente il processo contra di noi.
Il Don Pilone (1711), Act III., Sc. V. — (Don Pilone.)
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 312.
“The best capital in the world, Mariana, is honesty.”
Il Don Pilone (1711), Act I., Sc. IX.
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 334.
“Different men are made of different stuff.”
La Sorellina di Pilone (1712), Act V., Sc. XVI. — (Burino.)
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 425.
