Books Quote by Voltaire Download Open image ““In every author, let us distinguish the man from his work.”” — Voltaire ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Work
“Who ever said this author had an unmistakable tone? On the contrary, he is known as an author who changes greatly from one book… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“The original in man is that which articulates him from the very outset upon something other than himself.” — Charles Olson Copy Share Image
“Every so often an author comes along and changes the world. I am not that author!” — Rachel Rueben Copy Share Image
“The writer in him is only the shadow of the man, though so often we observe men whose art of writing is so great,… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
“The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.” — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If there is a category of human being for whom his work ought to speak for itself, it is the writer. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“Of course his life could be found in the pages of a book; I had just begun to notice that the lives of men… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
“He has written about equality, the perfectibility of human nature, and the essential goodness of mankind for many years -- he judges others by… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part, the rest are lost in the multitude. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them — Voltaire Copy Share Image
When his highness sends a ship to Egypt, does he trouble his head whether the mice on board are at their ease or not? — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
