Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
All pleasantry should be short and it might even be as well were the serious short also.
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
Might
Well
Pleasantry
Even
Pleasantries
Brevity
Short
Serious
Also
Wells
More quotes by Voltaire
The Bible. That is what fools have written, what imbeciles commend, what rogues teach and young children are made to learn by heart.
Voltaire
If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.
Voltaire
Life is thickly sown with thorns. I know no other remedy than to pass rapidly over them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us.
Voltaire
The effervescence of this fresh wine reveals the true brilliance of the French people.
Voltaire
In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.
Voltaire
Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels.
Voltaire
A good action is preferable to an argument.
Voltaire
Pleasure has its time so too, has wisdom. Make love in thy youth, and in old age attend to thy salvation.
Voltaire
Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.
Voltaire
Pleasantry is never good on serious points, because it always regards subjects in that point of view in which it is not the purpose to consider them.
Voltaire
Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
Voltaire
Hope should no more be a virtue than fear we fear and we hope, according to what is promised or threatened us.
Voltaire
Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.
Voltaire
God created women only to tame men.
Voltaire
The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire
It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
Voltaire
Dare to think for yourself.
Voltaire
The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.
Voltaire
Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.
Voltaire
The greatest consolation in life is to say what one thinks.
Voltaire
