Cold Quotes - Page 15
Juvenal, Susanna Morton Braund (2004). “Juvenal and Persius”, p.137, Harvard University Press
A hot iron, though blunt, will pierce sooner than a cold one, though sharper.
John Flavel (1770). “The Whole Works of the Reverend Mr. John Flavel ...”, p.455
Henry George Bohn (1867). “A Dictionary of Quotations from the English Poets”, p.623
George Eliot (2016). “Adam Bede”, p.119, George Eliot
Frederick William Robertson (1873). “ser. 1 God's revelation of heaven [and other sermons]. ser. 2 Christ's judgement respecting inheritance [and other sermons]. ser. 3 The tongue [and other sermons”, p.185
Cold exactitude is not art; ingenious artifice, when it pleases or when it expresses, is art itself.