Moliere Quotes
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Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
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We are easily duped by those we love.
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Books and marriage go ill together.
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Ah! how annoying that the law doesn't allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
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All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
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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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Music and dance are all you need.
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In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
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Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
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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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Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
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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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Ah, there are no children nowadays.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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It's an odd job, making decent people laugh.
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The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
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Isn't the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?