Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac Quote

Nothing so closely approaches a grand style as turgid nonsense: the ridiculous is one of the extremes of the subtle.


Socrate Chrétien (1662), Discours X.


Nothing so closely approaches a grand style as turgid nonsense: the ridiculous is one of the extremes of the subtle.

Nothing so closely approaches a grand style as turgid nonsense: the ridiculous is one of the extremes of the subtle.

Nothing so closely approaches a grand style as turgid nonsense: the ridiculous is one of the extremes of the subtle.

Nothing so closely approaches a grand style as turgid nonsense: the ridiculous is one of the extremes of the subtle.