Candide Satire Quotes & Sayings

I don't like sitting still at a desk and often conduct business on my Blackberry or in walking meetings. — Dylan Lauren

What I feel is that true creation happens when you're making something out of nothing - like it's divine, you know. Creation is a completely divine concept. — Eleanor Catton

But cow well you ass therefore my bird — Colleen Hoover

You see that car?' he said. 'I drive where I want, I have everything I want and all my life I have had three meals a day. I have nice clothes and a good place to live. I've been given everything and it's time I did some- thing for someone besides myself. — Mike Ericksen

The lower our self-esteem, the more we're attracted to our opposite, and the higher our self-esteem, the more we are attracted to another like ourselves. — Marilyn Vos Savant

What a pessimist you are!" exclaimed Candide.
"That is because I know what life is," said Martin. — Voltaire

I do Broadway because I refuse to succumb to the stereotypical things that Hollywood does to a performer. — Jamie Farr

It is unfortunate that Americans are no longer aware of what the constitution says and what their rights are. Because of that, we are often very passive about what happens when the government violates those rights. — James Bovard

The Saga of Dharmapuri is one of the great works of modern Indian literature. ( ... ) Set against Vijayan's heroic and scatological Candide
originally written in Malayalam and finely translated into English by the author
the timidity of our own English talent for political satire is embarrassingly laid bare. For this is dangerous stuff, and cut close to the bone. ( ... ) Fiercest of all is Vijayan's Voltairean recoil from Indian cringing to power. — David Selbourne

I wondered if it would've been too subtle to wear a T-shirt that said thank you for your interest, but I am no longer dating.
I knew Todd, wasn't a huge fan of reading, but he did like to stare at my shirts. — Elizabeth Eulberg

Within a few decades ... the United States might get 30% of its electricity from sunshine ... — Christopher Flavin

I never liked to hear the doorbell ring. None of the people I liked ever turned up that way. — Jenny Offill

Pride, like humility, is destroyed by one's insistence that he possesses it. — Kenneth Clark