Clearly Quote by Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Download Open image “Whate'er is well conceived is clearly said, And the words to say it flow with ease.” — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Clearly Clearly Said Conceived Clearly Ease Flow Language Said Say Flow Wells Words Say
in came ... a baby, eloquent as infancy usually is, and like most youthful orators, more easily heard than understood. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
Against the censurers of brevity. - Something said briefly can be the fruit of much long thought: but the reader who is a novice… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“When someone can fill such words with the depth of meaning that they are intended to have, it's like hearing them for the first… — Orville Schell Copy Share Image
“Great understanding is broad and unhurried; little understanding is cramped and busy. Great words are clear and limpid; little words are shrill and quarrelsome.” — Chuang Chou Copy Share Image
I am not as concerned about choosing the right words as I am in letting the words flow naturally. — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
It has been said that good prose should resemble the conversation of a well-bred man. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Curious how these early linguistic abilities are so fragile, how unthinkingly and easily the brain lets them go.” — William Boyd Copy Share Image
Sometimes actors don't remember their lines. At its worst, this means they 'dry' and silence descends. More commonly, the original lines are paraphrased in… — Alistair Beaton Copy Share Image
He [Moliere] pleases all the world, but cannot please himself. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Copy Share Image
Now two punctilious envoys, Thine and Mine Embroil the earth about a fancied line; And, dwelling much on right and much on wrong, Prove… — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Copy Share Image
No one who cannot limit himself has ever been able to write. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Copy Share Image
Time flies and draws us with it. The moment in which I am speaking is already far from me. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Copy Share Image
Of all the animals which fly in the air, walk on the land, or swim in the sea, from Paris to Peru, from Japan… — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Copy Share Image
Nature always springs to the surface and manages to show what she is. It is vain to stop or try to drive her back.… — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Copy Share Image
Though you be sprung in direct line from Hercules, if you show a lowborn meanness, that long succession of ancestors whom you disgrace are… — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Copy Share Image
“to communicate clearly enough so that there’s no room for interpretation, but also humbly.” — Kim Malone Scott Copy Share Image
“Joe!” he groaned, attempting to speak clearly. “Joe! Good ol’ Joe!” “Captain, you’re drunk!” Lofflin said, stating the obvious while trying to keep his… — Christina Engela Copy Share Image
Police in China can do whatever they want; after 81 days in arbitrary detention you clearly realise that they don't have to obey their… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
[We] make images to see clearly: then we see clearly what we have made. — Wright Morris Copy Share Image
While sleep is clearly vital to emotional well-being, what is it, exactly, about sleep that is so necessary? As it turns out, mood disorders… — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
I can say this very clearly: I have come into this Congress with an antiwar bias. — Lois Frankel Copy Share Image
The problem men seem to have, and women, too, is that they have this very structured idea that we should find a partner and… — Felicity Kendal Copy Share Image
Time starts out as a notion. But after you turn fifty, time is not a notion anymore but a fact that you start feeling… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image