Candide/reception

Famous quotes containing the words candide and/or reception:

    Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.
    Lionel Trilling (1905–1975)

    Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind of reception it meets in the world, and that so very few are offended with it.
    Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)