Candide and Other Stories Quotes

“I read only to please myself, and enjoy only what suits my taste.”
― Voltaire, Candide and Other Tales

“What's Optimism?' asked Cacambo. 'I'm afraid to say,' said Candide, 'that it's a mania for insisting that all is well when things are going badly.”
― Voltaire, Candide and Other Stories

“For can anything be sillier than to insist on carrying a burden one would continually much rather throw to the ground?”
― Voltaire, Candide and Other Stories

“self-esteem is a balloon filled with wind, from which great tempests surge when it is pricked”
― Voltaire, Candide and Other Stories

“It is best one should quote what one doesn't understand at all in the language one knows the least”
― Voltaire, Candide and Other Stories

“If one doesn't get what one wants in one world, one can always get it in another”
― Voltaire, Candide and Other Stories

“God punished the rogue: the devil drowned the rest.”
― Voltaire, Candide and Other Stories