List of Quintilian Quotes

Verse Satire Indeed Is Entirely Our Own.

For Comic Writers Charge Socrates With Making The Worse Appear The Better Reason.

It Seldom Happens That A Premature Shoot Of Genius Ever Arrives At Maturity.

Let Us Never Adopt The Maxim, Rather Lose Our Friend Than Our Jest.

In A Crowd, On A Journey, At A Banquet Even, A Line Of Thought Can Itself Provide Its Own Seclusion.

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.

The Pretended Admission Of A Fault On Our Part Creates An Excellent Impression.

By Writing Quickly We Are Not Brought To Write Well, But By Writing Well We Are Brought To Write Quickly.

From Writing Rapidly It Does Not Result That One Writes Well, But From Writing Well It Results That One Writes Rapidly.

A Man Who Tries To Surpass Another May Perhaps Succeed In Equaling Inot Actually Surpassing Him, But One Who Merely Follows Can Never Quite Come Up With Him: A Follower, Necessarily, Is Always Behind.

Lately We Have Had Many Losses.

(slaughter) Means Blood And Iron. [lat., Coedes Videtur Significare Sanguinem Et Ferrum.]