Moliere Quotes
-
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
→ -
Ah! devout though I may be, I am no less a man!
→ -
I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
→ -
Music and dance are all you need.
→ -
The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.
→ -
Then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave's a fine and private place But none, I think, do there embrace.
→ -
When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
→ -
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
→ -
The road is long fro the project to its completion.
→ -
I live on good soup, not on fine words.
→ -
Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
→ -
Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.
→ -
Reason is not what decides love.
→ -
The smallest errors are always the best.
→ -
Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
→ -
I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue's name.
→ -
The road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment.
→ -
Long is the road from conception to completion.
→ -
The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
→ -
There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
→ -
Too great haste leads us to error.
→ -
Ah, there are no longer any children!
→ -
I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn't speak a single word that doesn't come straight from his heart.
→ -
It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.
→ -
There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn't lasting.
→ -
But it is not reason that governs love.
→ -
I have the knack of easing scruples.
→ -
Virtue is the first title of nobility.
→ -
It's an odd job, making decent people laugh.
→ -
Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
→
Related Authors
-
Pierre de Marivaux Novelist -
Plautus Playwright -
Voltaire Writer -
Gustave Flaubert Writer -
Guy de Maupassant Writer -
William Shakespeare Poet -
Henrik Ibsen Playwright -
Pierre Corneille Dramatist -
Jean Racine Dramatist -
Michel de Montaigne Writer -
Victor Hugo Poet -
Bertolt Brecht Poet -
Pierre Beaumarchais Playwright -
Jean de La Fontaine Poet -
Alexander Pushkin Author -
Alfred de Musset Dramatist -
Louis XIV Monarch -
Eugene Ionesco Playwright -
Honore de Balzac Novelist -
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Writer