Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
Quintilian
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Quintilian
Lawyer
Pedagogue
Poet
Rhetorician
Teacher
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus
Marcus Fabius Quintilian
Art
Concealment
Conceal
Perfection
Design
More quotes by 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
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
Quintilian
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
Quintilian
In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.
Quintilian
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
Quintilian
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
Quintilian
Prune what is turgid, elevate what is commonplace, arrange what is disorderly, introduce rhythm where the language is harsh, modify where it is too absolute.
Quintilian
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
Quintilian
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
Quintilian
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
Quintilian
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.
Quintilian
While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
Quintilian
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
Quintilian
The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption for it is natural for it to acquire something, even when separated from any one.
Quintilian
Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature.
Quintilian
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
Quintilian
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
Quintilian
Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.
Quintilian
We should not speak so that it is possible for the audience to understand us, but so that it is impossible for them to misunderstand us.
Quintilian
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
