Moliere Quotes
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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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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.
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Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
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All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
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Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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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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Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
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Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
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We are all mortals, and each is for himself.
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I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.
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In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
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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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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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You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
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Ah, there are no children nowadays.
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Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.
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With a smile we should instruct our youth.
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Books and marriage go ill together.
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We must take the good with the bad; For the good when it's good, is so very good That the bad when it's bad can't be bad!
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Isn't the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?
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Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
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There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.
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Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
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The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.