1,095 Quotes by Horace

A man of refined taste and judgment.

Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque revenit. You can drive nature out with a pitchfork, she will nevertheless come back.

The snow has at last melted, the fields regain their herbage, and the trees their leaves.

The trainer trains the docile horse to turn, with his sensitive neck, whichever way the rider indicates.

Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.

I would advise him who wishes to imitate well, to look closely into life and manners, and thereby to learn to express them with truth.

And Tragedy should blush as much to stoop To the low mimic follies of a farce, As a grave matron would to dance with girls.

A man perfect to the finger tips.

A comic matter cannot be expressed in tragic verse. [Lat., Versibus exponi tragicis res comica non vult.]