Famous Quotes

Quotes by Voltaire

• I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.
• I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.
• I hate women because they always know where things are.
• I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.
• If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
• If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.
• If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent him.
• In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.
• In this country it is a good thing to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.
• Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
• Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
• It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
• It is forbidden to kill therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
• It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.
• It is not known precisely where angels dwell whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.
• It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.
• It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.
• It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.
• It is vain for the coward to flee death follows close behind it is only by defying it that the brave escape.