Top 18 French Voltaire Quotes
#1. For all the enlightened nations that profess a loyalty to liberty, democracy, economy and all the rest, there has long been a readiness to look for a chosen one; as Carlyle pointed out, even the French, those great anti-venerators, those relentless beheaders of Great Men, worshipped Voltaire.
Chris Anderson
#2. I'm not making it complicated, I'm just looking at it less simply.
Gregory S. Close
#3. After my husband died, I felt like one of those spiraled shells washed upon the beach ... Poke a straw through the twisting tunnel, around and around, and there is nothing there. No flesh. No life. Whatever lived there is dried up and gone.
Lynn Caine
#4. The effervescence of this fresh wine reveals the true brilliance of the French people.
Voltaire
#5. I serve your Beaune to my friends, but your Volnay I keep for myself.
Voltaire
#6. Language is not only a means of speech and thought, it is a bridge with the significant function of bringing the wealth of the past to our day and conveying today's heritage and our new compositions to the future.
M. Fethullah Gulen
#7. My name is out there right now. I'm creative and innovative. I should capitalize on it.
Christian Siriano
#8. Candide listened attentively and believed innocently; for he thought Miss Cunegonde extremely beautiful, though he never had the courage to tell her so.
Voltaire
#9. The more you try to enquire, the more it will get intriguing. That is the peculiar thing about mysteries.
You need to prove you can handle the revelations
Alcatraz Dey
#10. Genuine tragedy is a case not of right against wrong but of right against right - two equally justified ethical principles embodied in people of unchangeable will.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
#11. When my mother and father fell in love, my mother's family would never accept it.
Euzhan Palcy
#12. For even the ordinary well-read person, the French Enlightenment is largely restricted to the three big-name philosophes: Diderot, Rousseau, Voltaire.
Michael Dirda
#13. You don't have to be very possessive to be too possessive in the very early stages of a relationship. If she says she can't see you on a particular date and you ask why, that's probably one question too many.
Abdul'Rauf Hashmi
#14. Miss Manners herself, while never rude, is given to pulling a fast pinch in the way of a handshake on those who believe in kissing on, not even the first date, but the first sighting.
Judith Martin
#16. In this country [England] it is good to kill an admiral from time to time, to encourage the others. The reference is to Admiral John Byng, who was executed in 1757 for failing to prevent the French from taking Minorca.
Voltaire
#17. Its a metaphor, you see. You put the killing in your mouth but you don't give it the power to kill. A metaphor.
John Green
#18. I admire the women who can have babies and jump right back to work. As a nursing mother, I couldn't sit there and just pump all day. I needed to be close to my baby.
Nia Long
