Moliere Quotes
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Time has nothing to do with the matter.
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We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
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Things are only worth what you make them worth.
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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 gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.
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We are all mortals, and each is for himself.
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Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate's affection.
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The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
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My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.
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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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Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
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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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Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
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You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
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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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All right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe.
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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 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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Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
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With a smile we should instruct our youth.
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Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn't rule in love, you know.
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It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
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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.