Top 16 Voltaire French Quotes
#1. Don't worry about what others think about you; worry about what they think of themselves when they're with you.
Hilary Weeks
#2. Nothing can be more true, than that the greatest Boasters have the least of what they pretend to.
Eliza Haywood
#3. It takes courage to say goodbye. To stare at a thing lost and know it is gone forever. Some tears are iron forged.
Jay Kristoff
#4. 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
#5. The sun has been there for 500, 600 years ...
Mike Cameron
#6. Last words are always harder to remember when no one knows that someone's about to die.
John Green
#7. For even the ordinary well-read person, the French Enlightenment is largely restricted to the three big-name philosophes: Diderot, Rousseau, Voltaire.
Michael Dirda
#9. 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
#10. I'd find the fellow who lost it, and, if he was poor, I'd return it.
Yogi Berra
#11. Depression is about as close as you get to somewhere between dead and alive, and it's the worst.
Elizabeth Wurtzel
#13. Candide listened attentively and believed innocently; for he thought Miss Cunegonde extremely beautiful, though he never had the courage to tell her so.
Voltaire
#14. Maybe I've moved to the dark side, but it's clean and nice and we never run out of toilet paper.
Jen Lancaster
#15. I serve your Beaune to my friends, but your Volnay I keep for myself.
Voltaire
#16. The effervescence of this fresh wine reveals the true brilliance of the French people.
Voltaire
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