Horace - Turn Quotes

7 Sourced Quotes

View all Horace Quotes

Our sires' age was worse than our grandsires'. We their sons are more worthless than they: so in our turn we shall give the world a progeny yet more corrupt.

Horace

"Painters and poets," you say, "have always had an equal license in bold invention." We know; we claim the liberty for ourselves and in turn we give it to others.

Horace

It was a wine jar when the molding began: as the wheel runs round why does it turn out a water pitcher?

Horace

I am not bound over to swear allegiance to any master; where the storm drives me I turn in for shelter.

Horace

Drive Nature forth by force, she'll turn and rout
The false refinements that would keep her out.

Horace

You should turn the pages of your Greek models by night and by day.

Horace

You may turn nature out of doors with violence, but she will still return.

Horace