Moliere Quotes
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Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.
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I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.
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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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Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
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There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
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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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Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.
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It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
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You are my peace, my solace, my salvation.
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Without dance, a man can do nothing.
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The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
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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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And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
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We should look long and carefully at ourselves before we pass judgement on others.
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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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To live without loving is not really to live.
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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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How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
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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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I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
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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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Malicious men may die, but malice never.
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Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.