Moliere Quotes

France, Playwright
January 15, 1622 – February, 17, 1673.

Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known by his stage name Molière (/mɒlˈjɛər, moʊl-/; French: [mɔ.ljɛːʁ]; 15 January 1622 – 17 February 1673), was a French playwright, actor and poet, widely regarded as one of the greatest writers in the French language and universal literature. His extant works include comedies, farces, tragicomedies, comédie-ballets and more. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed at the Comédie-Française more often than those of any other playwright today. His influence is such that the French language itself is often referred to as the "language of Molière".

Also known as Actor, Poet

Everyone has a right to his own course of action.

Moliere
- Action
- Course
Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.

Moliere

Music and dance are all you need.

Moliere
- Music
- Dance
- Need
Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.

Moliere
- Knowing
- Prose
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.

Moliere
- Heart
- Art
- Enemy
Time has nothing to do with the matter.

Moliere
- Time
- Matter
We are all mortals, and each is for himself.

Moliere
- Mortals
Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!

Moliere
- Age
- I Feel
- Morals

I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.

Moliere
- I Believe
- Two
- Eight
All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.

Moliere
- Power
- Sex
- Beard
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.

Moliere
- Fashion
- Language
- Changes
A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.

Moliere
- Book
- Greek
- Laudation
Ah, there are no children nowadays.

Moliere
- Children
With a smile we should instruct our youth.

Moliere
- Smile
- Youth
- Instruct

Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.

Moliere
- Gold
- Ugly
- Charming
In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.

Moliere
- Society
- Need
- Virtue
You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?

Moliere
- Think
- Pleasure
- Marry
Books and marriage go ill together.

Moliere
- Marriage
- Books
- Ill
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!

Moliere
- Good
- Bad
Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.

Moliere
- Make
- Stay

Isn't the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?

Moliere
- Rule
- Please
Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!

Moliere
- Mercy
- Arms
- Satisfy
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.

Moliere
- Artist
- Criticism
- Fools
Birth is nothing where virtue is not.

Moliere
- Virtue
- Birth