“Black was this queen as jet, yet on her eyes
Sweet loveliness in black attired lies.”
Bruna e si, ma il bruno il bel non toglie.
Canto XII, stanza 21 (tr. Fairfax)
Gerusalemme Liberata (1581)
Original
Il bruno il bel non toglie.
XII, 21
Gerusalemme liberata
Variant: Bruna e si, ma il bruno il bel non toglie.
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Torquato Tasso 94
Italian poet 1544–1595Related quotes
" The Beggar Maid http://home.att.net/%7ETennysonPoetry/tbm.htm", st. 2 (1842)
Source: Platero and I (1917), Ch. 1 : Platero, as translated by Eloïse Roach (1957).
“Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love.”
Noir comme le diable, chaud comme l'enfer, pur comme un ange, doux comme l'amour.
frequently misattributed to Talleyrand, no primary source exists, its not his style of speech, and he famously drank tea not coffee.
Misattributed
“Black is a pearl in a woman's eye.”
An Humorous Day's Mirth; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
