Quintilian Quotes

The perfection of art is to conceal art.

Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.

Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.

For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.

Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.

The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.