Moliere Quotes
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We are all mortals, and each is for himself.
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Things are only worth what you make them worth.
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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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The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
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My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.
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Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
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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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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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The maturing process of becoming a writer is akin to that of a harlot. First you do it for love, then for a few friends, and finally only for money.
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I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.
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The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
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You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
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Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
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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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With a smile we should instruct our youth.
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Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!
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Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn't rule in love, you know.
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Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
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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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Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
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Music and dance are all you need.
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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.