Candid Quotes

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

“Candide, who trembled like a philosopher, hid himself as well as he could during this heroic butchery.”

“But for what purpose was the earth formed?" asked Candide. "To drive us mad," replied Martin.”

“Optimism," said Cacambo, "What is that?" "Alas!" replied Candide, "It is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.”

“All men are by nature free; you have therefore an undoubted liberty to depart whenever you please, but will have many and great difficulties to encounter in passing the frontiers.”

“My mom was a diabetic. Her sister was a diabetic, so I was already a candidate.”

“It's very difficult to take candid portraits of children because they're moving around all the time.”

“Every time you invite a candidate to interview, you should expect to be interviewed, too.”

“A lot of our Democratic consultants have fallen into the self-defeating prescription that the candidate that runs the most negative ads wins. I have a new theory: Positive is the new negative.”

“Wherefore the race being not to the swift, etc. but time and chance happening to all men, I leave the Judgement of the whole to the Candid, of whose correction I shall never be impatient.”