Famous Quintilian Quotes
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
Quintilian
It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory.
Quintilian
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
Quintilian
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
Quintilian
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
Quintilian
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
Quintilian
He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
Quintilian
A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
Quintilian
Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.
Quintilian
It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
Quintilian
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
Quintilian
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
Quintilian
