Moliere Quotes
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Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
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There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
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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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When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
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I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.
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Things are only worth what you make them worth.
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Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
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The smallest errors are always the best.
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My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.
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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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The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
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Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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Time has nothing to do with the matter.
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We ought always to conform to the manners of the greater number, and so behave as not to draw attention to ourselves. Excess either way shocks, and every man truly wise ought to attend to this in his dress as well as language, never to be affected in anything and follow without being in too great haste the changes of fashion.
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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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We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
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We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can't deceive.
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Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate's affection.
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Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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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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Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
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All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
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The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
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The general public is easy. You don't have to answer to anyone; and as long as you follow the rules of your profession, you needn't worry about the consequences. But the problem with the powerful and rich is that when they are sick, they really want their doctors to cure them.