Voltaire Quotes

Kissinger projects a strong impression of a man at home in the world and on top of his brief. But th...

And involuntarily I compared the childish sarcasm, the religious sarcasm of Voltaire with the irresi...

A jealous lover of human liberty, and deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and re...

God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.

Quand celui à qui l'on parle ne comprend pas et celui qui parle ne se comprend pas, c'est de la méta...

An opportunity fordoing an injury happens a hundred times a day, hut for doing good not once a year,...

Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.

But there must be some pleasure in condemning everything--in perceiving faults where others think th...

You are very harsh.''I have seen the world.

My dear young lady, when you are in love, and jealous, and have been flogged by the Inquisition, the...

Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.

[Voltaire] theoretically prefers a republic, but he knows its flaws: it permits factions which, if t...

But he had expressed to Mme. du Chatelet the hope that a way out might lie in applying philosophy to...

Hast thou found out, Voltaire, that it is bliss to die, And does thy hideous smile over thy bleached...