Antique/definition

Famous quotes containing the words antique and/or definition:

“I am more an antique Roman than a Dane.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“The definition of good prose is proper words in their proper places; of good verse, the most proper words in their proper places. The propriety is in either case relative. The words in prose ought to express the intended meaning, and no more; if they attract attention to themselves, it is, in general, a fault.”
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)