Writer · French · 1694 – 1778 · 169 quotes
The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.
Voltaire
Writer · French · 1694 – 1778
We cannot wish for that we know not.
My life is a struggle.
Clever tyrants are never punished.
The best is the enemy of the good.
Common sense is not so common.
A witty saying proves nothing.
Better is the enemy of good.
The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.
