A great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire in others we want to do ourselves.
QUINTILIANIn a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.
More Quintilian Quotes
-
-
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
QUINTILIAN -
Men of quality are in the wrong to undervalue, as they often do, the practise of a fair and quick hand in writing; for it is no immaterial accomplishment.
QUINTILIAN -
It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
QUINTILIAN -
Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
QUINTILIAN -
If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.
QUINTILIAN -
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
QUINTILIAN -
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
QUINTILIAN -
God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.
QUINTILIAN -
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
QUINTILIAN -
Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
QUINTILIAN -
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
QUINTILIAN -
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
QUINTILIAN -
It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
QUINTILIAN -
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
QUINTILIAN -
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
QUINTILIAN