Voltaire Quotes about Style

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

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