Quotes by Nicholas Boileau

“However big the fool, there is always a bigger fool to admire him.”

“Honor is like an island, rugged and without shores; once we have left it, we can never return”

“Let a single complete action, in one place and one day, keep the theatre packed to the last.”

“Honour is like an island, rugged and without shores; we can never re-enter it once we are on the outside.”

““Tout ce quon dit de trop est fade et rebutant.” [That which is repeated too often becomes insipid and tedious.]”

“Bring your work back to the workshop twenty times. Polish it continuously, and polish it again.”

“If your descent is from heroic sires, show in your life a remnant of their fires.”

“Whatever we well understand we express clearly, and words flow with ease.”

“A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him”

“The world is full of fools; and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking-glass.”

“Who lives content with little possesses everything”

“No one who cannot limit himself has ever been able to write.”

“Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.”

“The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.”