Top 7 Benvenuto Cellini Quotes (2025 Update)

Benvenuto Cellini Quote: “When the poor give to the rich, the devil laughs.”

1. “When the poor give to the rich, the devil laughs.”

Benvenuto Cellini Quote: “Little beginnings sometimes have great endings.”

2. “Little beginnings sometimes have great endings.”

3. “I assert that the art of sculpture, among all the arts connected with design, is at least seven times greater than any other, for the following reason: why, sir, a statue of true sculpture ought to have seven points of view, which ought all to boast equal excellence.”

— Benvenuto Cellini

4. “God only sends us evil to do us good.”

— Benvenuto Cellini

5. “I flung off in a passion, telling him that I would soon show him that I spoke truth. The bystanders openly declared against him, holding him for a lout, as indeed he was, and me for a man, as I had proved myself.”

— Benvenuto Cellini

6. “My lords, for more than half an hour you’ve not stopped questioning me about some fantastic story or other; one could in fact say that you’re babbling, or rambling. By babbling, I mean, that you’re talking nonsense; by rambling, that you’re saying nothing at all.”

— Benvenuto Cellini

7. “My answer to this was that the purest-bred cats made better mousers when they were fat than when they were starving; and in the same way honest craftsmen did much better work when they had plenty to live on.”

— Benvenuto Cellini

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