What is conceived well is expressed clearly.
by Nicholas Boileau in the SIMPLICITY topic


Other Quotes by Nicholas Boileau

" A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him."
in the topic FOOLS AND FOOLISHNESS

" Greatest fools are the most often satisfied."
in the topic FOOLS AND FOOLISHNESS

" Honor is like an island, rugged and without a beach; once we have left it, we can never return."
in the topic HONOR

" Attach yourself to those who advise you rather than praise you."
in the topic PRAISE

" Praising an honest person who doesn't deserve it, always wounds them."
in the topic PRAISE

Quotes in the SIMPLICITY Topic

" Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser than usual; if with your superiors, no finer."
by Alford

" Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art."
by Philip James Bailey

" The price we pay for the complexity of life is too high. When you think of all the effort you have to put in --telephonic, technological and relational --to alter even the slightest bit of behavior in this strange world we call social life, you are left "
by Jean Baudrillard

" What is conceived well is expressed clearly."
by Nicholas Boileau

" Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity."
by Christian Nevell Bovee

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