Moliere Quotes
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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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To marry a fool is to be no fool.
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You are my peace, my solace, my salvation.
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The envious will die, but envy never.
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True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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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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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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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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Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
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Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
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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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Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
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Without dance, a man can do nothing.
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Ah! how annoying that the law doesn't allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
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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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Malicious men may die, but malice never.
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Books and marriage go ill together.
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I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.
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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 absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
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I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.
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All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
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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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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.