Quintilian Quotes
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~ Quintilian Quote
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
~ Quintilian Quote
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
~ Quintilian Quote
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
~ Quintilian Quote
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
~ Quintilian Quote
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
~ Quintilian Quote
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
~ Quintilian Quote
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
~ Quintilian Quote
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue
~ Quintilian Quote
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
~ Quintilian Quote
For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.
~ Quintilian Quote
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
~ Quintilian Quote
A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too much.
~ Quintilian Quote
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
~ Quintilian Quote
It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory.
~ Quintilian Quote
If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.
~ Quintilian Quote
That laughter costs too much, which is purchased by the sacrifice of decency
~ Quintilian Quote
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
~ Quintilian Quote
A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
~ Quintilian Quote
While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. the opportunity is lost.
~ Quintilian Quote
It is much easier to try one's hand at many things than to concentrate one's powers on one thing.
~ Quintilian Quote
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
~ Quintilian Quote
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
~ Quintilian Quote
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 Quote
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
~ Quintilian Quote
Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.
~ Quintilian Quote
Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
~ Quintilian Quote
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
~ Quintilian Quote
Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.
~ Quintilian Quote
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
~ Quintilian Quote
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
~ Quintilian Quote
He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
~ Quintilian Quote
A liar should have a good memory.
~ Quintilian Quote
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
~ Quintilian Quote
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
~ Quintilian Quote
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
~ Quintilian Quote
The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.
~ Quintilian Quote
In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion
~ Quintilian Quote
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish
~ Quintilian Quote
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
~ Quintilian Quote
