Speak Common Quotes by Roger Ascham

It is a pity that, commonly, more care is had--yea, and that among very wise men--to find out rather a cunning man for their…

— Roger Ascham

Twenty to one offend more in writing too much than too little.

— Roger Ascham

To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do is style.

— Roger Ascham

He that will write well in any tongue, must follow this counsel of Aristotle, to speak as the common people do, to think as…

— Roger Ascham

A man, groundly learned already, may take much profit himself in using by epitome to draw other men’s works, for his own memory sake,…

— Roger Ascham

He that will write well in any tongue must follow this counsel of Aristotle: to speak as the common people do, to think as…

— Roger Ascham

It is good manners, not rank, wealth, or beauty, that constitute the real lay.

— Roger Ascham

A man reacheth not to excellence with one language.

— Roger Ascham

Young children were sooner allured by love, than driven by beating, to attain good learning.

— Roger Ascham

By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering.

— Roger Ascham

To laugh, to lie, to flatter, to face: Four ways in court to win man's grace.

— Roger Ascham

Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.

— Roger Ascham

Italianate Englishmen are incarnate devils ... for they first lustfully condemn God, then scornfully mock his word, and also spitefully hate and hurt all…

— Roger Ascham

I remember when I was young, in the north, they went to the grammar school little children: they came from thence great lubbers: always…

— Roger Ascham

For [the] quick in wit and light in manners be either seldom troubled or very soon weary, in carrying a very heavy purse.

— Roger Ascham