Moliere Quotes
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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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Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
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Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate's affection.
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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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Malicious men may die, but malice never.
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Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.
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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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No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it's the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living.
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The envious will die, but envy never.
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Time has nothing to do with the matter.
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Things are only worth what you make them worth.
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True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
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The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
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Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
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My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.
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We are easily duped by those we love.
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The smallest errors are always the best.
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Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
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A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
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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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All right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe.
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Everyone has a right to his own course of action.