"How I like the boldness of the..." - Quote by Voltaire
How I like the boldness of the English, how I like the people who say what they think!
More by Voltaire
“Men appear to prefer ruining one another's fortunes, and cutting each other's throats about a few paltry villages, to extending the grand means of human happiness.”
“Our character is composed of our ideas and our feelings: and, since it has been proved that we give ourselves neither feelings nor ideas, our character does not depend on us. If it did depend on us, there is nobody who would not be perfect. If one does not reflect, one thinks oneself master of everything; but when one does reflect, one realizes that one is master of nothing”
“The more he became truly wise, the more he distrusted everything he knew.”
More on Honesty
“I never promise anything. I don't promise anything to my mum. I don't promise anything to the supporters.”
“Every virtue inclines to stupidity, every stupidity to virtue; "stupid to the point of sanctity," they say in Russia, - let us be careful lest out of pure honesty we eventually become saints and bores!”
“I am very proud of the fact I do not cheat when I'm playing golf.”