Voltaire Quotes:
Ocupation: Writer
Life: November 21, 1694 - May 30, 1778
Birthday: November 21
Death: May 30
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.
source: Voltaire (1824). “A Philosophical Dictionary”, p.202
topic: Style, Addresses, Speech, Pleading, Didactic
