Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything.
Voltaire
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Voltaire
Age: 84 †
Born: 1694
Born: February 20
Died: 1778
Died: May 30
Author
Autobiographer
Correspondent
Diarist
Encyclopédistes
Essayist
Historian
Philosopher
Playwright
Poet
Poet Lawyer
Political Scientist
Paris
France
François-Marie Arouet
Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire
Francois Marie Arouet
Dictator of Letters
Bores
Boredom
Secret
Tell
Everything
Brevity
Bore
Presentation
More quotes by Voltaire
Come! you presence will either give me life or kill me with pleasure.
Voltaire
A little evil is often necessary for obtaining a great good.
Voltaire
Now is not the time for making new enemies.
Voltaire
I serve your Beaune to my friends, but your Volnay I keep for myself.
Voltaire
The monster, fanaticism, still exists, and whoever seeks after truth will run the risk of being persecuted.
Voltaire
A woman can keep one secret the secret of her age.
Voltaire
If you are attacked as regards your style, never reply it is for your work alone to make answer.
Voltaire
To succeed in chaining the multitude, you must seem to wear the same fetters.
Voltaire
All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.
Voltaire
What! Have you no monks to teach, to dispute, to govern, to intrigue and to burn people who do not agree with them?
Voltaire
Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
Voltaire
One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.
Voltaire
Learn to cultivate your own garden.
Voltaire
The more he became truly wise, the more he distrusted everything he knew.
Voltaire
If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities.
Voltaire
Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
Voltaire
Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.
Voltaire
Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.
Voltaire
She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.
Voltaire
The Pride of every Jew finds cause to believe that the cause of their down fall is not their detestable politics, or ignorance of social graces, but the raft of God. They believe it took a miracle to undo them.
Voltaire
