Candide Quotes
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Candide Quotes & Sayings
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When you drink water, don't forget the fountain.
— Paulo Coelho
To look into the mirror is to see the future, in blood and rubies.
— Gregory Maguire
What is this optimism?" said Cacambo. "Alas!" said Candide, "it is the madness of maintaining that everything is right when it is wrong.
— Voltaire
Faith in the endgame helps you live through the months or years of buildup.
— James C. Collins
What's optimism? said Cacambo.
Alas, said Candide, it is a mania for saying things are well when one is in hell. — Voltaire
Alas, said Candide, it is a mania for saying things are well when one is in hell. — Voltaire
My late mother was very clear to my sister and I that we were to be strong women; that we were to be effective; that we were to be heard.
— Christine Quinn
What! Have you no monks to teach, to dispute, to govern, to intrigue and to burn people who do not agree with them?
— Voltaire
There can be no effect without a cause," modestly answered Candide; "the whole is necessarily concatenated and arranged for the best.
— Voltaire
Nobody ever discovered ugliness through photographs. But many, through photographs, have discovered beauty.
— Susan Sontag
The guy's life drunk, I think, makes Candide look like a sourpuss. Does he even know that death exists?
— Jandy Nelson
We are all glass soldiers.
— Steven Galloway
Trackers and hunters sworn to deepwood with clan names like Forrester and Woods, branch and bole.
— George R R Martin
My dear young lady, when you are in love, and jealous, and have been flogged by the Inquisition, there's no knowing what you may do.
— Voltaire
It is much easier and safer to scare someone into submission than to beat them into submission.
— Rory Miller
It is love; love, the comfort of the human species, the preserver of the universe, the soul of all sentient beings, love, tender love.
— Voltaire
Fairest lady," said Candide, "when a man is in love, jealous, and whipped by the Inquisition, he no longer knows what he's doing.
— Voltaire
What a pessimist you are!" exclaimed Candide.
"That is because I know what life is," said Martin. — Voltaire
"That is because I know what life is," said Martin. — Voltaire
Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.
— Lionel Trilling
After 'Spelling Bee,' I started landing more jobs ... I got 'Candide' at New York City Opera.
— Lauren Worsham
Optimism," said Cacambo, "What is that?" "Alas!" replied Candide, "It is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.
— Voltaire
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
But for what purpose was the earth formed?" asked Candide. "To drive us mad," replied Martin.
— Voltaire
I'm not Candide, nor Dr Pangloss, but we know that faith moves mountains.
— Daniel Libeskind
Oh! what a superior man," said Candide below his breath. "What a great genius is this Pococurante! Nothing can please him.
— Voltaire
Beautiful maiden," answered Candide, "when a man is in love, is jealous, and has been flogged by the Inquisition, he becomes lost to all reflection.
— Voltaire
Jefferson appeared to his enemies as an American version of Candide; Hamilton as an American Machiavelli.
— Joseph J. Ellis