Moliere Quotes
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Malicious men may die, but malice never.
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Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
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You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
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Books and marriage go ill together.
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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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With a smile we should instruct our youth.
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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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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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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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The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
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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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In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
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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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I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.
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Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
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Isn't the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?
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Ah, there are no children nowadays.
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Music and dance are all you need.
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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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Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
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Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn't rule in love, you know.
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Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
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There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn't lasting.
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The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.