Moliere Quotes
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Things are only worth what you make them worth.
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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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The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
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I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.
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We are all mortals, and each is for himself.
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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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Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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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 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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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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All right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe.
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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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Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
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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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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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It's an odd job, making decent people laugh.
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Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn't rule in love, you know.
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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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With a smile we should instruct our youth.
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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.