Moliere Quotes
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Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
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The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.
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The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
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The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.
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Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
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People don't mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
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The smallest errors are always the best.
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Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
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Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
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The road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment.
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A good husband be the best sort of plaster for to cure a young woman's ailments.
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To live without loving is not really to live.
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How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
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It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.
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In order to prove a friend to one's guests, frugality must reign in one's meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat to live, not live to eat.
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A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.
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New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.
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Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
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At least it's better to be married than to be dead.
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That must be fine, for I don't understand a word.
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I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
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When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.
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In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the changes in the current taste.
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I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.