Pococurante

'Pococurante' called it years ago -- is always being abused, and yet it is only the public which, in the end, can tell us if we have done well or ill.

My Contemporaries In Fiction David Christie Murray

The great rooms, which were occupied as the salons of the noble Levant, the coffee-rooms of the "Pococurante" (a club where the play was furious, as I am told), and the board-room and manager's-room of the

The Christmas Books of Mr. M.A. Titmarsh William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

House, was let to the “Pococurante Club,” which was speedily bankrupt (for we are too far from the centre of town to support a club of our own); it was subsequently hired by the West

Our Street 2006

Pococurante, in Candide, was admired for despising

The Laws of Etiquette Unknown

Pococurante; "everything about it is childish and trifling; but I shall have another laid out tomorrow upon a nobler plan."

Candide 1918

"Indeed I never read him at all," replied Pococurante.

Candide 1918

While dinner was being prepared Pococurante ordered a concert.

Candide 1918

"O what a surprising man!" said Candide, still to himself; "what a prodigious genius is this Pococurante! nothing can please him."

Candide 1918

"Yes," answered Pococurante, "so there might if any one of these compilers of this rubbish had only invented the art of pin-making; but all these volumes are filled with mere chimerical systems, without one single article conductive to real utility."

Candide 1918

Candide and his friend Martin went in a gondola on the Brenta, and arrived at the palace of the noble Pococurante.

Candide 1918