Moliere Quotes
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Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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We should look long and carefully at ourselves before we pass judgement on others.
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I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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Deference and intimacy live far apart.
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I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
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There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
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Malicious men may die, but malice never.
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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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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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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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You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.
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Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
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When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
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Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
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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.
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It is fine for a woman to know a lot; but I don't want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows.
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The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
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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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Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don't succeed, at least pretend to.
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He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
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Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.