Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
He who cannot shine by thought, seeks to bring himself into notice by a witticism.
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
Shine
Wit
Notice
Shining
Bring
Cannot
Thought
Witticism
Seeks
More quotes by Voltaire
Minds differ still more than faces.
Voltaire
He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.
Voltaire
Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.
Voltaire
Do you think... that men have always massacred each other, as they do today? Have they always been liars, cheats, traitors, brigands, weak, flighty, cowardly, envious, gluttonous, drunken, grasping, and vicious, bloody, backbiting, debauched, fanatical, hypocritical, and silly?
Voltaire
The only reward to be expected from literature is contempt if one fails and hatred if one succeeds.
Voltaire
The Jews are of all peoples the grosses, the most ferocious, the most fanatical, and the most absurd.
Voltaire
Needless to say since Christ's expiation not one single Christian has been known to sin, or die.
Voltaire
Anything too stupid to be said is sung.
Voltaire
The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
Voltaire
The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.
Voltaire
You have no control over the hand that life deals you, but how you play that hand is entirely up to you.
Voltaire
To hold a pen is to be at war.
Voltaire
And ask each passenger to tell his story, and if there is one of them all who has not cursed his existence many times, and said to himself over and over again that he was the most miserable of men, I give you permission to throw me head-first into the sea.
Voltaire
Being a bird ain't all about flying and shitting from high places.
Voltaire
He who thinks himself wise, O heavens! is a great fool.
Voltaire
The composition of a tragedy requires testicles.
Voltaire
Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.
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
The sentiment of justice is so natural, and so universally acquired by all mankind, that it seems to be independent of all law, all party, all religion.
Voltaire
Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.
Voltaire
