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.

Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.

Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.

If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?

She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.

Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom.

had no need of a guide to learn ignorance

Wisdom must yield to superstition's rules, Who arms with bigot zeal the hand of fools.

Candide, who trembled like a philosopher, hid himself as well as he could during this heroic butchery.

If they're from the village, you take them to the inn. If they're from the city, you treat them with respect when they are beautiful and throw them on the highway when they are dead.

But for what purpose was the earth formed?" asked Candide. "To drive us mad, " replied Martin.

Riding a Dragon is amazing, exhilarating, and murder on the thighs.

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

Designers have to keep the body in mind all the time. Think of the girl's undergarments: the bra is always key.

I never wear pigtails, I wear plaits.

I'm sixty-two, and it's ecological sense to die while you're still productive, die and clear a space for others, old and young.

Christ died for the truth.

Boko Haram will soon know the strength of our collective will.

If I pick up a fiddle, I don't compose on it, so much as I just play whatever.

The liberty of the press is a blessing when we are inclined to write against others, and a calamity when we find ourselves overborne by the multitude of our assailants.

I never want to retire until the day I drop dead. I want to work and work and work because work, I don't do for money, I do for love. And I love to work.