Horace Quotes
A greater liar than the Parthians.
Horace. Satires, Epistles and Ars Poetica. Translated by H. Rushton Fairclough, Harvard University Press, 1926, p. 405.
Coughlin was one of America’s most virulent hate-mongers. He was pro-Nazi, racist, anti-Semitic and an extremist of the political right wing. He had a weekly radio show which was notorious for its untruths. The Catholic Church was finally so embarrassed that he was ordered to give up his public haranguing.
Describing Martin Luther King Jr.:
Armstrong observed that the notion was not original with him but with Edmund Burke. See {610721}.
Quintus Horatius Flaccus, known in the English-speaking world as Horace (/ˈhɒrɪs/), was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus (also known as Octavian). The rhetorician Quintilian regarded his Odes as just about the only Latin lyrics worth reading: "He can be lofty sometimes, yet he is also full of charm and grace, versatile in his figures, and felicitously daring in his choice of words."
