Famous quotes containing the words horace and/or reception:
“I am Roman, alas, because Horace is Roman.”
—Pierre Corneille (1606–1684)
“Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind of reception it meets in the world, and that so very few are offended with it.”
—Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)