Boileau, Nicholas quotes
1636-1711 French Literary Poet CriticHonor is like an island, rugged and without a beach; once we have left it, we can never return.
Boileau, Nicholas
Honor
However big the fool, there is always a bigger fool to admire him.
Boileau, Nicholas
Fools and Foolishness
Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.
Boileau, Nicholas
Fools and Foolishness
A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.
Boileau, Nicholas
Fools and Foolishness
Attach yourself to those who advise you rather than praise you.
Boileau, Nicholas
Praise
Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.
Boileau, Nicholas
Reason
Praising an honest person who doesn t deserve it, always wounds them.
Boileau, Nicholas
Praise
What is conceived well is expressed clearly.
Boileau, Nicholas
Simplicity
If your descent is from heroic sires, show in your life a remnant of their fires.
Boileau, Nicholas
Ancestry
The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.
Boileau, Nicholas
Wisdom
No one who cannot limit himself has ever been able to write.
Boileau, Nicholas
Writers and Writing
He who cannot limit himself will never know how to write.
Boileau, Nicholas
Writers and Writing