Giovanni della Casa cytaty

Giovanni della Casa – włoski duchowny katolicki, arcybiskup Benewentu, inkwizytor, dyplomata, znawca prawideł etykiety dworskiej, pisarz i poeta. Jego najbardziej znanym dziełem, jest Il Galateo overo de’ costumi , pierwszy, niezwykle popularny podręcznik dobrych manier. Wikipedia  

✵ 28. Czerwiec 1503 – 14. Listopad 1556
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Giovanni della Casa: Cytaty po angielsku

“These kinds of habits, in good company, are so very nauseous and disgusting, that if we indulge ourselves in them, no one can be very fond of our acquaintance. So far from it, that even those, who are inclined to wish us well, must, by these and the like disagreeable customs, be entirely alienated from us.”

Those ill-bred people, who expect their acquaintance to love and caress them, with all their foibles, are as absurd as a poor ragged cinder-wench; who should roll about upon an heap of ashes, scrabbling and throwing dust in the face of every one that passed by; and yet flatter herself that she should allure some youth to her embraces, by these dirty endearments; which would infallibly keep him at a distance.
Źródło: Galateo: Or, A Treatise on Politeness and Delicacy of Manners, p. 15