Famous Quotes / Jean De La Bruyere
Jean De La Bruyere: "There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being pompously declaimed, or second-rate verse spoken with all a bad poet's bombast!"
| Bombast | Certain | Declaimed | Eloquence |
| Frigid | Hear | Intolerable | Mediocrity |
| Music | Painting | Poetry | Poets |
| Pompously | Public | Secondrate | Speech |
| Spoken | Things | Torture | Verse |