Appreciation Quote by Mark Ravenhill

“In this short philosophical novel he completely undermined the kind of optimism about humanity and the universe that Pope and Leibniz had expressed, and…

— Nigel Warburton

“I found my father asleep in his dining-room armchair, with a blanket over his legs and his favorite book open in his hands--a copy…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“He had made a vow, a private promise to the world in the long dark watches of the night, that if he did survive…

— Kate Atkinson

During this earlier period of his activity Voltaire seems to have been trying - half unconsciously, perhaps - to discover and to express the…

— Lytton Strachey

“Jefferson appeared to his enemies as an American version of Candide; Hamilton as an American Machiavelli.”

— Joseph J. Ellis

“Fresh-bearded young men with beautiful skin and long guns on Boulevard Voltaire gazing into the beautiful, disbelieving eyes of their own generation. It wasn’t…

— Ian McEwan

“From May 1717 to April 1718, Voltaire sat comfortably in the infamous prison insulting the Regent and reading Homer. ”

— Jessica Powell

“The marquis de Carabas was not a good man, and he knew himself well enough to be perfectly certain that he was not a…

— Neil Gaiman

“They hadn't read as many stories as Malicia, and were rather more attached to the experience of real life, which is that when someone…

— Terry Pratchett

“For all the enlightened nations that profess a loyalty to liberty, democracy, economy and all the rest, there has long been a readiness to…

— Chris Anderson

“and there the stories Of martyrs awed, as Spagnoletto tainted His brush with all the blood of all the sainted.”

— George Gordon Byron

“This one,' said the hooded man, 'resists sorcery, Cotillion. Though his blood is old, I wonder, will all mortals one day be like him?…

— Steven Erikson