Antiquity Quote by Joseph Addison

It hardly needs explaining at length, I think, how much authority or beauty is added to style by the timely use of proverbs. In…

— Desiderius Erasmus

“Considering thus how much honor is awarded to antiquity, and how many times—letting pass infinite other examples—a fragment of an ancient statue has been…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“the people were steeped in the crepuscular gloom of antiquity; and were wise with all manner of accumulated lore; and were subtle in the…

— Clark Ashton Smith

“Words borrowed of antiquity do lend a kind of majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.”

— Ben Jonson

Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.

— John Dryden

In taste and imagination, in the graces of style, in the arts of persuasion, in the magnificence of public works, the ancients were at…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

There is only one writer in whom I find something that reminds me of the directness of style which is found in the Bible.…

— Heinrich Heine

When I became thoroughly acquainted with the Greek and Roman authors, I thought it incumbent upon me to do something towards the honor of…

— John Arbuthnot

“Many, Lorenzo, have held and still hold the opinion, that there is nothing which has less in common with another, and that is so…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

There was about all the Romans a heroic tone peculiar to ancient life. Their virtues were great and noble, and these virtues madethem great…

— Herman Melville

Satire is, indeed, the only sort of composition in which the Latin poets whose works have come down to us were not mere imitators…

— Thomas B. Macaulay