The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresse

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

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
work
category

I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near. – Margaret Thatcher

Category:
work

I have not failed. Ive just found 10,000 ways that wont work. – Thomas A. Edison

Category:
work

The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work. – Charles Kettering

Category:
work

I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence. – Ayrton Senna

Category:
work

Random Quotes

No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recesses of another mind. – Arnold Bennett

Category:
Mind

Adam and Eve ate the first vitamins, including the package. – E.R. Squibb

Category:
Health

Conscience gets a lot of credit that belongs to cold feet. – Author Unknown

Category:
Perspective

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all. – Dale Carnegie

Category:
Business