Moliere Quotes
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Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
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You are my peace, my solace, my salvation.
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Our minds need relaxation, and give way unless we mix with work a little play.
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He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
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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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What! Would you make no distinction between hypocrisy and devotion? Would you give them the same names, and respect the mask as you do the face? Would you equate artifice and sincerity? Confound appearance with truth? Regard the phantom as the very person? Value counterfeit as cash?
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There is no protection against slander.
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I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
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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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To live without loving is not really to live.
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Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.
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I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.
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I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
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To inspire love is a woman's greatest ambition, believe me. It's the one thing woman care about and there's no woman so proud that she does not rejoice at heart in her conquests.
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There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
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He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.
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Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate's affection.
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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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Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
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I have a heart to love all the world; and like Alexander I wish there were yet other worlds, so I could carry even further my amorous conquests.
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I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue's name.
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Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
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Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
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Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.