Voltaire Quotes About Style

Quotes about: Style

• All styles are good except the tiresome kind.

  Voltaire

  Style, Kind, Tiresome

• I confess that my stomach does not take to this style of cooking. I cannot accept calves sweetbreads swimming in a salty sauce, nor can I eat mince consisting of turkey, hare, and rabbit, which they try to persuade me comes from a single animal... As for the cooks, I really cannot be expected to put up with this ham essence, nor the excessive quantity of morels and other mushrooms, pepper, and nutmeg with which they disguise perfectly good food.

  Voltaire

  Swimming, Animal, Perfectly Good

• If you are attacked as regards your style, never reply; it is for your work alone to make answer.

  Voltaire

  Editors, Style, Answers

  Voltaire (2015). “Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary”, p.72, Voltaire

• The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.

  Voltaire

  Style, Addresses, Speech

  Voltaire (1824). “A Philosophical Dictionary”, p.202

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