Quote

From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly.

Quintilian

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Quintilian
Lawyer
Pedagogue
Poet
Rhetorician
Teacher
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus
Marcus Fabius Quintilian
Result
Results
Doe
Wells
Well
Writing
Rapidly
Writes

More quotes by Quintilian

Image
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
Image
While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
Quintilian
Image
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
Quintilian
Image
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
Quintilian
Image
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
Quintilian
Image
It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory.
Quintilian
Image
Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
Quintilian
Image
Lately we have had many losses.
Quintilian
Image
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
Quintilian
Image
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
Quintilian
Image
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
Quintilian
Image
It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort.
Quintilian
Image
A liar ought to have a good memory.
Quintilian
Image
It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
Quintilian
Image
In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.
Quintilian
Image
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
Image
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
Quintilian
Image
She abounds with lucious faults.
Quintilian
Image
Medicine for the dead is too late
Quintilian
Image
It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
Quintilian