“Tis not sufficient to combine
Well-chosen words in a well-ordered line.”
Book I, satire iv, line 54 (translated by John Conington)
Satires (c. 35 BC and 30 BC)
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Horace92
Roman lyric poet -65–-8 BCRelated quotes
“No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.”
Abraham Verghese book Cutting for Stone
Source: Cutting for Stone
Adam Kilgarriff (1960–2015) linguist from England
in I don't believe in word senses http://www.kilgarriff.co.uk/Publications/1997-K-CHum-believe.pdf (1997), p. 25
“Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.”
Samuel Paterson (1728–1802) English bookseller and auctioneer
Joineriana: or The Book of Scraps (London: 1772), Vol. I, p. 40
“Those who have a well-ordered character lead also a well-ordered life.”
Democritus Ancient Greek philosopher, pupil of Leucippus, founder of the atomic theory
Source Book in Ancient Philosophy (1907), The Golden Sayings of Democritus
“A well-chosen book saves you from everything, including yourself.”
Daniel Pennac (1944) French author
Source: The Rights of the Reader
“What is a well-chosen collection of pictures, but walls hung round with thoughts?”
Joshua Reynolds (1723–1792) English painter, specialising in portraits
Quoted in The Examiner (1825) p. 633.
Other
“Tis colder outside than a well-born maiden’s heart.”
Poul Anderson book The Broken Sword
Source: The Broken Sword (1954), Chapter 24 (p. 171)
“Tis as human a little story as paper could well carry”
James Joyce book Finnegans Wake
115.36
Finnegans Wake (1939)