Horace/works

Famous quotes containing the words horace and/or works:

    “I am Roman, alas, because Horace is Roman.”
    —Pierre Corneille (1606–1684)

    “I shall not bring an automobile with me. These inventions infest France almost as much as Bloomer cycling costumes, but they make a horrid racket, and are particularly objectionable. So are the Bloomers. Nothing more abominable has ever been invented. Perhaps the automobile tricycles may succeed better, but I abjure all these works of the devil.”
    —Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)