Quotes about Juvenal

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I am she, O most bucolical juvenal, under whose charge are placed the milky mothers of the herd.

Most of my humor is satire. 'It's difficult not to write satire', said Juvenal, in one of his "Satires" written a few thousand years ago. If anything, it is even more difficult not to write satire now. Look at the world.

Why, Sir, when I have anything to invent, I never trouble my head about it, as other men do; but presently turn over this Book, and there I have, at one view, all that Perseus, Montaigne, Seneca's Tragedies, Horace, Juvenal, Claudian, Pliny, Plutarch's lives, and the rest, have ever thought upon this subject: and so, in a trice, by leaving out a few words, or putting in others of my own, the business is done.

George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham